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International Investment Meet Of The Association of Certified International Investment Analysts
International Investment Meet Of The Association of Certified International Investment Analysts
INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT MEET
The Association of Certified International Investment Analysts (ACIIA) council meeting was hosted by ICFAI in the Capital recently.The meet¬ing is held twice a year and hosted by various members of ACIIA. Kiyoto Hagiwara, chairman, ACIIA, while speaking to the media, said that Indian investment professionals are looking to the CIIA programme to offer them exciting career options in the growing Indian financial sector. Council for Portfolio Management and Research (CPMR), an affiliate of ICFAI, is offering the CIIA programme in India. Hagiwara said:"The CIIA pro¬gramme is available in 26 countries. The programme will be available in many more countries and in more languages. At the same time, the CIIA syllabus will develop to reflect the new instru¬ments and techniques that will inevitably become available in the international markets.”
The role of ACIIA is to provide an internationally recognised qualification — the Certified International Investment Analyst, CIIA — which examines candidates at a high standard and in a practical fashion in the global and local topic areas that are necessary to pursue a career in the investment profession.
PLACEMENT RECORD
The one-year PGDM programme of the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research scripted a new high this year for the Class of 2007 with 33 companies forwarding 151 offers to 57 partici¬pants. The highlight of the placements was the first offer of the first day being the highest offer of Rs 24.35 lakhs per annum.The average increase in salaries for the participants was 70%, which trans¬lates into an average salary increase of Rs 5.15 lakhs. Several of the blue chip companies, like Infosys, Satyam, Reliance Retail, Mphasis and ICICI offered more than 10 offers each to participants. Some of the other companies par¬ticipating were IBM, McKinsey KC, SAP, Cognizant Technologies, L&T and TCS.
IT TIE-UP
Aptech has signed an MoU with the Information Technology Institute (ITI)-Cairo, the technical training arm of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, government of Egypt.The objective of the tie-up is to foster long-term co-operation, which will enable Aptech and ITI to collectively penetrate strategic markets sur¬rounding Egypt. Aptech will host e-learning courses and impart e-learning training to ITI. Pramod Khera, CEO and MD, Aptech and Mohamed Salem,chairman,ITI,signed the MoU in Hyderabad in the presence of Tarek Kamel, Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Egypt.
CA EXAM
The Chartered Accountancy (CA) curriculum was revamped to modernise the syllabus and launched on September 13. Students can enrol for the Common Proficiency Test (CPT), which is a simplified entry to the CA profession, after they clear class X. They can prepare for CPT as they pursue class XI and XII.The evaluation pattern in CPT has been benchmarked to be on par with other top ranked international professional entrance tests. More than 35,000 students from the old scheme switched over to the new scheme. A total of 27,565 students, out of which 8124 (29.47%) were girls, appeared for the CPT exam held on November 12 at 160 centres across the country and in Dubai and Kathmandu. An analysis of the result of the exam shows that total 18,345 students cleared the CPT exam, which is a 66.55% result, out of which 12,681 (69.12%) were males and 5664 (30.88%) females.
NCERT FINDINGS
A two-day meeting of the state survey officers was organised by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to share the findings of the 7th All-India School Education survey. Under this survey, availability of schooling facilities distance-wise at primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary stages of school education in approximately six lakh villages has been included. Further, state sur¬vey officers also shared the difficulties faced by them during different phases of data collection, data entry and validation.