Education, Careers & Professional News
Students make frantic visits to colleges
Source
hindu
Date
2005-06-16
Information
STUDENTS ARE making frantic visits to colleges that still have some seats available in undergraduate courses, especially B.Sc and B.Com. Caught between the uncertainty about the CET seat selection, now postponed, and the prospect of losing other alternatives, they are feeling desperate to forfeit the fees paid for degree courses which they may have to forego if they get a seat in a professional college of their choice later.
As one anxious students puts it, It is either losing the money paid as fees or losing one academic year altogether.
Workshop
JYOTI NIVAS College and Sahyadri Science College, Shimoga, held a national level workshop on Integrated Approach to Knowledge and Information at the Ecumenical Christian Centre, Whitefield. This was sponsored by the Foundation for Academic Excellence (FAEA) and funded by Ford Foundation. Fifty underprivileged students were selected on merit for participation.
Former diplomat and FAEA governing council member, Abid Hussain, who was the chief guest, spoke. In the interactive session that followed, the panel members answered questions from the students about career choices and study options.
Induction programme
SURANA COLLEGE was busy with its induction programme for I PU students, Pravesh 2005-06, last weekend. Renowned author and former Director, Kannada Abhivruddhi Pradhikara, Bargur Ramachandrappa, inaugurated the event.
Two eminent citizens, Banadur Kempaiah, Executive Producer, Bangalore Doordarshan Kendra, and the Superintendent of Police, G.A. Bawa, were felicitated as role models for young students. The chief guest, the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Deputy Commissioner, V. Chandrasekhar, and the Principal, K.E. Radhakrishna, addressed the students.
ICFAI completes 10 years
ICFAI (INSTITUTE of Chartered Financial Analysts of India) Business School, Bangalore, has completed 10 years. It now has 42 full-time faculty members and 25 research staff, over 500 students and 61 working executives pursuing part-time learning programmes.
One reason the institute attributes for its academic excellence is a doctoral programme for faculty who want to branch into research. ICFAIs institute- industry interface enables close collaboration with industry in two broad areas: teaching and learning and business development. The network now includes 31 companies.
Seminar
ONE OF the more lucrative agro-businesses is the breeding of bees. Bangalore Universitys Department of Zoology conducted a seminar on Priority Areas in Research on Asian Bees. Ben Oldroyd of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia, delivered the keynote talk on Bee Breeding and Genetics and Research on Asian Bees. The guest speakers included Gavigowda, Head of the Department of Apiculture, University of Agricultural Sciences. Bangalore University Vice-Chancellor, M.S. Thimmappa, presided over the seminar.