February 11 - Ahmedabad, India - India seems to have stumbled on a new mantra to increase their international relations - Training diplomacy. And the dream of travel east of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A), the quasi-ambassador of India in the field of education to more than a dozen countries in Asia, Africa , Asia and Western Europe.

The Union Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Institute has a list of countries where the IIM-A for the implementation of plans roadshows for its Post-Graduate new program in the areas of management for executives PGPX, which starts in June next year.

At an early meeting of IIM-A officials and foreign ministers Shyam Sharan in New Delhi last month, it would have, according to reports in Fanshop donations to these countries and candidates to the rope for the program “, an effort to help India to strengthen diplomatic relations with these countries. ”

The year of a program aimed at executives selected by the GMAT and personal interviews, a dose of 50 to 70 students, including 25 percent of foreign participants are expected during the first year. The process to achieve in March, when the authorisation procedure for the course begins.

The list includes some of the neighbouring countries of India - Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - and in Indonesia, Malaysia and France and a number of countries in West Asia and Africa.

“There is throughout the world focuses on vocational training Post-Graduate character, and the MEA, seeks to strengthen strategic alliances with these countries indicate that they thought IIM-A as a trademark. The program could be a starting point to begin the long term - in the field of education alliances. to the Institute, it is a big step towards our plans to go international, “says an IIM-A Don.

“The Institute is currently in advanced discussions with MSAs,” says an IIM-A source.

An international seminar will be held here on 16 September a platform management practitioners, policy makers and scientists to pursue their views and experiences on the theme “Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Kerala: Current Issues and Future Trends “.

The opening of borders for the strengthening of economic activity showed mixed results and reactions in different parts of the world, Prof. D Rajasenan, Department of Applied Economics and Director of the ICEPA, Cochin University of Science and Technology, told a press conference can be found here.

Although sporadic, there were cases in which different interest groups have reacted with the strength of corporate responsibility, he said.

The call to boycott products of Coca-Cola and Nike for its so-called issue, environmental standards and labour practices in developing countries shows that companies be constantly monitored, he added.

Representatives of Kochi Refinery Ltd (KRL), Cochin Port Trust (CPT) and Management Institute in India, Delhi, among the participating companies. Researchers from the Netherlands, Italy, Bangladesh is also present their views on corporate social responsibility in their respective countries.

Netherlands Embassy funded the seminar, organized by the International Centre for Economic and Policy Analysis, CUSAT in collaboration with the University of Tilburg Netherlands, restructuring the public sector and internal audit and management committee Kerala Association.

Asia’s largest health sector, Singapore-based Parkway Group Healthcare, in a joint venture with Mumbai-based Asian Heart Institute and Research Centre (AHIRC) for the establishment of specialized medical centres of excellence Mumbai. Parkway owns a majority stake in the joint venture participation. The exact format is set.

Parkway received a management contract with the consent of holders AHIRC for the management and operation of infrastructure of 250 hospital beds heart. In a first step, the company proposes to Singapore, India bring their internationally recognized living donor liver transplantation.

The partnership is also considering cooperation in the oncology and orthopedics. This super-speciality centres are AHIRC’s Bandra-Kurla installation and co-branding of both partners.

Mumbai Parkway east entrance as part of its strategy to expand the footprint of their feet in India. It was Schlachtgetümmel for the acquisition of Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre in Delhi and to develop plans, whether through acquisitions, large enterprises.

Currently, the Parkway Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata with Apollo Hospitals. It also has a centre PET-CT for diagnosing cancer than Hyderabad.

$ 500m Parkway The group recently launched a controlling stake acquired the participation of Pantai Holdings, Malaysia the leading provider of health care. With this acquisition, the total number of hospitals under control Parkway to 15

According to the head of international operations Parkway, Vivek Jetley, AHRI Parkway and cooperate to specialized health centres of excellence in Mumbai by the leverage effect on business in Singapore to cut the medical know-how and long experience in health management.

“Asian Heart Institute has an excellent reputation in Mumbai to the heart of world-class infrastructure and management under the leadership of Dr Rama Kant Panda. The new centre of excellence in tap water more extensive know-how Parkway, for health research are provided with high standards, quality of care provided to patients and better treatment outcomes, “he said.

Regarding the interest of his company in India, “said Jetley private health care in the country, industry offers great potential and added that the increased purchasing power in India, had created an increased demand for medical services of high quality Delivery.

The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) announced today the selection of 401 new Ford Foundation International Fellows from among nearly 22,000 applicants worldwide. IFP accepts applications from people in 22 countries and territories throughout the developing world.

“IFP Fellows are thriving in their diverse academic settings, distinguishing themselves as excellent scholars and bringing valuable new perspectives to the universities where they are studying,” said Susan V. Berresford, president of the Ford Foundation.

Award winners in this fifth round of IFP competitions were selected on the basis of IFP’s three core criteria of academic achievement, strong leadership skills and potential, and commitment to the development of their communities and countries. IFP especially seeks candidates from groups and communities with little access to higher education.

“IFP’s strategic university partners know that IFP Fellows bring their strong cultural attachments and passion for social justice to their studies,” added Donald McHenry, chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Fellowships Fund, IFP’s parent organization, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. “Their diverse experiences, and their diversity itself, is a boon to any academic community.”

IFP Fellows receive support for up to three years of post-baccalaureate study in an appropriate university program anywhere in the world. Currently, more than 1,000 IFP Fellows have enrolled at 385 different universities in 41 countries. IFP is expanding its network of “strategic university partnerships” with leading institutions around the world that provide language training, mentoring, and academic support for clusters of IFP Fellows. IFP now has formal agreements and clusters of Fellows at over 30 universities in a dozen countries. Among IFP’s university partners are the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, the Australian National University, the Center for Tropical Agronomy Research and Education in Costa Rica, Columbia University in New York, the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, and the Universities of Sussex and Birmingham, UK.

“Grouping Fellows at excellent institutions has real benefits for Fellows,” said IFP Executive Director Joan Dassin. “The universities provide increased language training and academic support and mentoring, and our Fellows are able to quickly begin building a network among their IFP colleagues that aids their studies and their professional development.”

Over the past year, numerous IFP Fellows have been recognized for outstanding work in both academic and professional spheres, winning prestigious awards from their host universities, development agencies and national governments. Their extraordinary success is an important indicator that candidates chosen from groups and communities traditionally excluded from higher education can excel in competitive graduate programs. Several universities have offered outstanding IFP Fellows additional support to pursue doctoral studies after the term of their IFP Fellowship.

IFP continues to sponsor networking and leadership activities that complement formal graduate-level studies and aim to build an enduring cohort of IFP Fellows who can gain from each other’s learning and experience. IFP conducted four Leadership for Social Justice Institutes in 2004, in Mexico, the Netherlands, Thailand, and the USA.

Over 3,300 IFP Fellows will be chosen through 2012. The new IFP Fellows were chosen from among 21,684 applications received in Chile, China, Egypt, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Palestine, Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand, and Vietnam. A total of 1,509 IFP Fellows have been selected since the program’s first Fellows were chosen in June 2001. Brazil, Kenya, Russia, Tanzania, and Uganda will rejoin the selection cycle in 2005.

The annual media seminar of the International School of Business and Media, ‘Sigma 2005′ was recently held on the topic, ‘Convergence Cocktail - Brewing Brands, Entertaining Business’ at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, says a press note. While inaugurating the two-day event, consulting editor of The Times of India, Dilip Padgaonkar emphasised on the need to present the content in a style that’s entertaining.

Media luminaries including Prasad Mangipudi, director, Customorlab, Dilip Cherian, CEO, Perfect Relations and Anurag Batra, CEO, Exchange4media shared their views on the occasion on ‘Digital Marketing: Branding Beyond Bricks and Mortar’. Is Narrowcasting a Myth: Get Candid, Get Real; Of Gurus and Gibberish: Is Advertising Doomed; Careers in Media and Entertainment Industry and the Role of PR in Brand Building were some of the other topics discussed at length during Sigma 2005.

Spectrum 2005

Celebrating a decade of excellence, National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) had recently organised a ‘Fashion Spectrum of NIFT - 2005′ at five of its centres in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Gandhinagar and Hyderabad. According to a press release, the three-day extravaganza was inaugurated by the director general of NIFT, Gauri Kumar and it showcased a variety of cultural and educational programmes, apart from professional workshops in hairstyling, make-up, grooming and Kerala massage, to name some.

‘Temple architecture and sculptures of Andhra Pradesh’ and ‘Creativity’ were the themes of the seminars organised at Hyderabad to commemorate the occasion. The Mumbai centre made Spectrum 2005 an amalgamation of fun, jazz, competitions, craft ideas and loud music. The Kolkata centre organised a seminar on ‘Industry expectations - NIFTians role and performance’, interactive workshop and photography exhibition. The launch of ‘Silk party wear collection’ and a jewellery show were among the activities held at the Bangalore centre of NIFT on the occasion.

Under its “Look East Policy”, India, training in the field of railways BIMSTEC technical personnel from countries free of charge.

This was confirmed by the Minister of Railways, Lalu Prasad presents, while the budget for 2005-06 Rail.

He said that the offer was the first meeting of railway-Chief Executive Officers of the BIMSTEC countries have September here in the past and the gesture was widely appreciated by member countries.

An International Railway Strategic Management Institute under the auspices of the International Union of Railways (UIC), founded in India and the first module during the first manager of the railway would be in Paris in May this years, “said Prasad.

The second module of the course would be the railway staff College in Vadodara in west of the Indian state of Gujarat, in November.

The World Executive Board session of the UIC in India would be this year, April, for the first time under the presidency of the Indian Railways.

Prasad said, it was a recognition of the importance of Indian Railways in the world railways community.

The Indian Institute of Management (IIMS), and finally the international debut. IIM Bangalore, is completing plans for the establishment of an offshore campus in Singapore or in one of the countries in Southeast Asia, Prakash Apte G IIMB director told The Times of India.

The Institute works outside, the modus operandi of the university campus next few years, but it is still a reflection on programmes.

The proposal will probably be raised during the meeting between the Ministry of HRD and directors of the six IIMS in New Delhi next week, Apte said. HRD officials to attend two days of higher education here at the conference said Tuesday there were several proposals IIMS and IITS to offer various programs and proposals for expansion.

“In the coming weeks, meetings, we accept the new programs offer IIMS. We want new issues, launch programs more integrated and strengthening of credit in new areas of sharing, Sudeep Banerjee, Additional Secretary, MHRD , Said.

IIM, Ahmedabad, the oldest of six IIMS, is also concerned with offshore centres tie-ups with American universities, like Wharton, Stanford, Columbia and providing years Post-Graduate programme in the areas of management for frameworks.

But IIMB is not interested in tie-ups. “We seek the possibility of a real campus, no tie-ups with universities,” said Apte.

The Ministry of HRD approach should be a shot in the arm assertions IIMS foreigners on board. “We give considerable autonomy for the institutions working for them, agreements with others, which we support,” said Banerjee.

Autonomy is something that even the IIMS to erflehen. The Big Three - IIM A, B and C - said the HRD does not require the ministry, the plan or no plan, because it enough-Corpus Fund. “As regards small and IIMS recently, we must maintain with the block grants.”

Appin Knowledge Solutions and Board of Student Welfare, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) recently conducted a seminar ‘Your Power to Succeed’ by personal development coach, Anuj Khare at the institute’s premises. Khare is a B Tech in Computer Science from IIT-D and Master’s in Computer Engineering from University of Texas.

The seminar was aimed at improving the quality of lives of people and to have a marked affect on their productivity and drive for excellent results. More than 500 people consisting of students, corporates, business leaders and even housewives, who attended the seminar, benefited greatly from it, with opening of tremendous possibilities and new exciting ways of looking at life. The seminar covered the ‘Seven Master Steps of Success’ that form the core of the science of achievement. Achievers, be it in jobs, business, studies or home, are not born, but created, and this seminar showed them exactly how.

Appin Knowledge Solutions moreover, announced their winter training programmes for students pursing career in technical fields. Short-term courses on topics like embedded systems, linux administration, ethical hacking and network security, robotics will be conducted in the second half of December. There are just 20 seats per course and certificates will be given at the end of each course. www.appinonline.com/wintertraining.php

Workshop on IPR

The School of Biotechnology and the School of Law and Legal Studies of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University had jointly organised a two day workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) recently, said a press release. Sponsored by the ministry of human resource development (MHRD), government of India, the workshop was inaugurated by Bela Banerjee, joint secretary, MHRD. In her address, Banerjee spoke about the contribution of MHRD in safeguarding the intellectual property of the country in different areas like patents, copyrights, and plant variety protection, to name some.

The workshop included sessions on various facets of IPR like patenting in biotechnology, plant variety protection, global IPR regulatory requirements for pharmaceutical industry, trade negotiations and international law, technology transfer and management, biodiversity protection, and WTO dispute settlement, among others. It was attended by students and faculty members from several institutions in Delhi and representatives from the industry in large numbers.

Mumbai, February 2 (PTI) India, the federal Department of power and the USA Agency for International Development (USAID) for Reliance Energy Ltd’s Management Institute to undertake training programs in the reform of the distribution , Updates and management (drum) project.

Reliance Energy Management Insititute, which account for about 10 training programs within the framework of drum, a training initiative of USAID and Ministry of Power, directed by train on 25000 professionals in the energy sector, a company announced Wednesday the release.

REMI’s training program, which was established last week in New Delhi, including a change in management of energy distribution, financial management business in the sale and distribution of reduction.

Singapore-based Contact Center consulting firm Omni Touch announced Friday the start of its activities in India.

The company had in the Indian market earlier this year by setting up an office in New Delhi, a company release said.

Omni Touch, which is affiliated to several world organizations such as the International Customer Management Institute (ICMI) and the Call Center Industry Advisory Council, provides access to benefits worldwide standard for implementation at the local level.

He finished the examination of India one of the main centres of contact as Convergys, Scope International Avaya Global Connect, HDFC, IDEA Cellular and Bharti Tele-ventures, he said.

“India is an excellent market position, which with its customers worldwide. However, the key to expirience excellent services and customers are still weak … the need for training and consultancy specializing in the organization, contacts Centre sector, with solutions very clearly on Friday Omni Touch South Asia director Mahesh PUNIA said.

The company is confident in creating a strong pillar in the sub-continent in the coming months, he said