BITS AND BYTES
Animation, games design courses in offing

THE CEO of SAE, a foreign media education college, Rathish Babu has announced the commencement of a new and exclusive programme in India. SAE, which at present runs diploma and degree programmes of Middlesex University, London, has got approval for its proposal for setting up Indian university-affiliated B.Sc and M.Sc courses in media-related subjects.

The three B. Sc programmes on offer will be in sound engineering; digital film making; and animation and games design. The University also has an affiliated five-year Integrated Masters Program which deals in Audio, Film and Media Management. Rathish claims that it is for the first time in the country or even Asia that Media Management is being taught as a course.

These degree courses would roll out from next month and students who have completed plus two will be eligible for them.

SAE Technology College, a media education college headquartered in Byron Bay, Australia, has a worldwide network of 53 colleges in 18 countries across four continents. It started operating in India from 2000 at Chennai and later opened branches at Bangalore, Trivandrum, Delhi and Mumbai. TNS

The Faculty Of Management Studies, University Of Delhi , has launched the MBA- Management of Services (MBA- MS) course in its 50th year of existence.

The MBA - MS course is the first of its kind catering almost exclusively to the fast-growing service sector.

It is a regular full-time MBA programme offered by the FMS, Delhi, and oriented excusively towards the service industry.

Apart from the regular functional specialisation in fields like finance, marketing, HR and operations offered by general management courses, this course offers sectoral specialisation in sectors like IT & ITES, financial services, hospitality and transportation services, healthcare services and public services.

This MBA programme involves innovative course delivery by means of seminar and workshop courses that give a practical dimension to the course.

Unlike the single final year project undertaken at most MBA courses, this course offers five seminar-based courses in the final year, enabling students to work on diverse projects and moulding them as sector specialists.

Over 50 per cent of the present batch has diverse work experience, with more than 40 per cent having over a year of work experience. The students also have diverse educational backgrounds, a majority having done engineering. — TNS