Aaron F. Cooper II, a self-described worrywart, never thought his penchant for devising foolproof backup plans could translate into a calling. But that all changed when he signed up for an elective in risk management while at the University of Georgia’s Terry School of Business executive MBA program last fall. “It entails pretty much everything I’ve always been interested in my entire life, even before I knew risk management existed,” said Cooper, 27, a telecommunications engineer at AT&T (T).

Cooper is part of a new wave of students hitting business school campuses. For years, risk management—the process of analyzing exposure to risk and determining how best to handle it—occupied a sleepy corner in business schools, a subject mainly of interest to those who want to enter the insurance field. But with the recent turmoil in the financial markets and a push for more accountability, risk management has rocketed in status at business schools.

In the past decade, a growing number of B-schools have added concentrations in the subject, ramping up the number of classes they offer. Executive MBA programs are also incorporating risk management electives into their curriculum, responding to increased demand from executives and companies. In some instances, schools such as Georgia’s Terry are developing custom programs on the topic for top executives and boards of directors.

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There were 22 MBA Vietnamese graduates and eight BA Vietnamese graduates in these first classes receiving the degrees of the University of Bolton. The degrees are recognized by the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony, Deborah Clarke, British consul general in HCMC, said there would be plenty of opportunities for Vietnamese graduates as Vietnam’s economic success and integration into the global economy is fuelling demand for well-educated managers who are able to operate in a global market-place.

She added education is one of the five key pillars of the UK’s relationship with Vietnam and that the collaborative partnership between the two universities will help to create a critical mass of skilled professionals with an international outlook in Vietnam as well as further strengthen educational links between the UK and Vietnam and promote understanding between the two countries.

Working in partnership with HCMC University of Banking, the University of Bolton has delivered the programs in HCMC since 2006. The programs include Bachelor of Accounting, Bachelor of Business Administration, and transfer program for Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration.

An enrolment seminar for these programs will be held at 8:30 a.m. on July 19 at Kim Do Hotel, 133 Nguyen Hue Boulevard, District 1, HCMC. For details, contact the Center for International Cooperation of the HCMC University of Banking (2nd floor, 39 Ham Nghi Boulevard, District 1, tel: (08) 821 4660, ext: 101).

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Taking the inter-regional integration efforts (for more trade and industry) on exporters’ level is the most important pillar of the new launched “Focus ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and 2 (Australia and New Zealand) “Programme of Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.

The new programme has been chalked out along the lines of programmes such as “Focus-LAC” and “Focus Africa ‘, which has proved fruitful.

India is the traditional export basket in the countries of ASEAN is composed of elements such as gems and jewellery, grain, chemicals, electronic goods and iron and steel, with no evil the demand on the route of a certain category of products. Events trade in this region of Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPCs) are in financial assistance from the government under the Market Development Assistance (MDA) Scheme.

India-exports to ASEAN countries reached $ 4.62 billion during the period 2002-03, from $ 1.63 billion in 1998-99. Currently, ASEAN is a dominant trading partner of India, for example accounting for 9 percent of total trade. Two avenues of trade is now $ 9.8 million, with a trade deficit of 0.5 billion dollars.

The main markets are India, Singapore (export refunds from India was $ 1.4 billion over the period 2002-03), Indonesia ($ 0.8 billion), Malaysia ( $ 0.75 billion), Thai country ($ 0, 7 billion) and Philippines ($ 0.5 billion).

During a recent workshop on the theme “Doing Business in South East Asia”, organised jointly by the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Capexil, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Mr. Samir Ghosh, Senior Vice - - Chairman of Capexil, there is an urgent need to improve economic cooperation between India and ASEAN countries by the work quickly on the path of an India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

ASEAN countries, Mr. Ghosh, it may be regarded as one of the main destinations for Indian exports, reaching $ 30 billion by 2008, according to a recent study.

The ADB says Ghosh has forecast economic growth of 5.4 per cent by the year 2005 for the ASEAN region. While high growth is expected to Vietnam and Thai country, for the rest, it is likely to hover in the range of 4.5-5.5 percent.

Mr. Ghosh told Business Line that some ASEAN countries have made enormous progress on industrial and technological development, particularly in areas such as ceramics, glass and glassware, plywood and wood and rubber . The main products Capexil region of ASEAN are minerals, rocks, tires, glass, paper, electrodes, books and rubber products.

Requested the Council support programmes in the region, “said Ghosh including participation in trade fairs in Vietnam and Australia (Design Build in Melbourne, Australia), next to the buyer-seller meets in India and the ASEAN countries.

Demand for management professionals is growing, but the supply of quality manager was unable to maintain in the future. In Chennai, for example, there are only a few institutions in the city of meals to the growing demand for quality training.

The Franco-Indian Chamber of Commerce (IGCC) has decided to close the gap with the launch of the Indo-German Training Centre and offers a platform for management aspirants to acquire skills to meet the needs companies.

The management of institutions IGCC development goals, administration and management skills of students who, otherwise, that the academic, adapting to the culture of work in the industry.

The 18 months Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration has launched Thursday, a German company of the German Management by its “dual system”. This system offers practical training, transmission of industrial training, in collaboration with classroom meetings.

Furthermore, that students learn German as part of the curriculum. Graduates and young researchers from 50 per cent for the course. Working visit sponsored by the forces of their business are also eligible.

Inauguration of the Centre, L.S. Ganesh, Head of the Department of Management Studies, IIT Chennai, there is a growing demand in Chennai for admission to the quality of institutions. Chennai with emerging countries, as an automobile race in the capital and health care, we need good institutions, innovative programs management.

Three basic E –

Give advice to students, he said that three basic E’s expected of leaders - the efficiency of production quality, efficiency with minimal resources and excellence. The management of these institutions in their abilities of candidates.

During their training must develop 5 E’s - excitement, boredom, know-how through experience, energy and empowerment, “he said.

Stefan Graf, the German Consul General, Chennai, said the institution would open the doors of Germany and globalization for students. If one compares the globalization of football games, he said that students should be trained, are winners in the global game.

T.R. Gopalan, regional director of the IGCC, said that 25 students across the country, including Delhi and Coimbatore, have opted for the course. The number will increase to 40 in the next game.

The announcement National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), demand and pushed aside and non-effort pushed the Union Member of the Planning Commission BN Yugandhar said here Monday.

A fund is created and pooling resources from various systems, such as the National Food for Work, Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana and the region back Grants Fund, said Yugandhar journalists after opening a workshop organized by the Round Table on public expenditure (PERT), Institute of Management Consultants and Madras, India University’s Department of Management Studies, to rethink approaches to the provision of public services.

Prisé as 50 other districts would be chosen for the NREGS (in addition to the 150 covered under the national programme Food for Work Program), he said that the selection of parameters such as GDP per capita agricultural productivity, wages and the population covered Box / Scheduled Tribes. “These parameters are value neutral and acceptable to all States,” he said.

Panchayats village social audit of the money under the regulation.

Earlier, in his address, “said Yugandhar with the introduction of a number of systems, each district was more and more additional funds in an amount of Rs 100 crores of RS. 300 crores per year, without spending plan of the Federal state governments.

He proposed that the resources available with the development of systems constituency Members of Parliament and members of legislatures are used for public financing of elections.

K. Venkataraman, said the chairman of the PERT of the exercise of preparing budgets result would be useful if the system has tainted surrender.

A trainee management is a management internship is a Management Trainee, n’est-ce pas? Well, not quite. No doubt, the Management Trainee (MT) is quite the end of the corporate food chain, but apparently there is an ecology intelligent stipulates that the microcosm. What does a TM-like leaders of arrivals is not the same as another, and that the qualifications and demand and supply equation very case. Would proof? Take a look at the BT-Omam Management Trainee content Survey 2003, focuses on the compensation of more than 100 companies in 17 sectors. While the average annual earnings operates under RS-25 lakh 3.20 per cent less than what Junior managers in these areas, intra-industry average much higher: 5 lakh RS, in the case of FMCG, a depression R 2.14 lakh for restaurants.

Although it only covers part of the dynamics of MT compensation. To give an idea of what is actually happening, we need to understand the difference in pay between MTS and junior managers. Indeed, this shows two things: first, as regards the labour market at this level is looking and two, as an employer is ready, its “Fast-Track-white-collar apprentices. It is not surprising that the sectors which, in a crescent halsbrecherischen the peak speed. Take telecommunications, for example. Here, the difference is only 9 per cent, followed by council (10 percent), banks (11 percent) and BPOs (14 percent).

East interesting to note the difference of two-wheelers in industry (6 percent) is the lowest, but it should not be an accurate indicator for change at ground level. Why? As a traditional production industry, it probably has a significant number of workers in blue, were up in the management of Junior, but on the basis of low wages. Says Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Joint Managing Director, Kinetic Engineering: “We have a lot of people from the administration, accounting, etc. under management Junior. But we rent m B-schools-known, most often in late jump from junior level. ” In societies, LG, where there is no significant difference in the qualification of junior managers and MTS, wages are calculated on the basis of skills and merits.

Still, in all sectors of the economy, manufacturing services, level of vocational trainees were quickly on follow-up to managerial level, simply because it is competent in management tools and techniques which are now an integral part of any decision-making process. Even Bilt, a paper producer, places MTs directly to the managerial level, once they were confirmed. Says Tapan Mitra, director of human resources in the BILT: “A lot of juniors in our front line management supervisors are mainly shop floor manager. Apprentices But with its application capabilities can even skip the junior level management.”

The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, which appealed against slapping of a whopping Rs 3.19 crore income tax by the department, will now pay only 50 per cent of the amount, a top IIMB source said.

“Tax authorities raised a demand for Rs 3.19 crore for the assessment year 2003-04. We have appealed against this and have now been asked to pay 50 per cent of the amount,” Ketoki Basu, Financial Controller, IIMB told PTI today.

Taking into account the returns filed by the B-school for the assessment year 2003-04, the IT department denied exemption under section 10 (23C) (iiiab) of the IT act, 1961, on the grounds that “we (IIMB) are not wholly or substantially financed by the government,” she said.

The IIMB, she said, has filed an appeal against this and “we are also contesting the denial of the benefit under sections 11 to 13 of the Income Tax Act, 1961.” The B-school has also written to the Human Resource Development Minstry (MHRD), for a notification stating it (IIMB) is “wholly or substantially financed by the government,” Basu said.

However, till date the IIMB, has not received any response on the application, she said.

A To gear up for the spurt in demand for trained insurance professionals, both for insurance and brokerage firms as well as their intermediaries (market projections peg the demand at 25,000 additional jobs), several institutes have emerged that offer courses at all levels.

Almost all the big companies impart in-house training to their freshly recruited advisors to equip them for the mandatory IRDA exam.

Having established as a leader in the field of information systems, e-learning and knowledge management systems areas, the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) is now a research Moving in embedded systems and micro-electronics.

As a first step in this direction, the Institute is the establishment of a system board and Laboratory would soon begin an online course for interested students, professionals KR Srivathsan, director. The laboratory was officially launched here in the technology park and today. The departure is carried out in close collaboration with Tata Elxi and Ushus Tech, Techno Park two companies have their headquarters here.

Once the laboratory is fully implemented IIITM-K is also the implementation of courses for industry and teachers Engineering College, in the line.

Embedded software development is growing increasingly attractive economic hub, according to Professor Srivathsan This led to a strong demand Embedded System developers. Unfortunately, there are very few institutions, the quality of education and skills training on key technologies such as embedded systems and VLSI.

IIITM-K will soon launch a full-credit courses on integrated systems and advanced networks for the name of its final batch of post-Graduate Diploma in Information Technology (PGDIT) students. An improved version of the same class, it is intended for working professionals in the industry, R & D and academic institutions of learning.

The programs have two objectives, the participants with a solid base of on-board technologies, systems and applications, industry-oriented “hands-on” Pra-ctical training. To achieve these objectives, the Institute has created a “progressive” facility “for education and industrial training and training in the field of embedded systems laboratory.

The world media has never been as lively as it is today. The industry, which was previously limited to the print quality has witnessed a new dimension is made available in electronic form and Web journalism. The boom of unprecedented industry gave rise to a demand for skilled manpower as well.

Madhubala Institute of communication and electronic media (MBICEM) east Nizamuddin strives to be as a hub for media education in the capital. Founded in 1996 as a philanthropic initiative, the Institute offers a Bachelor of Journalism (Mass Communication), in conjunction with the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

According to the indications of major MBICEM, MB Julka, “The Bachelor of Journalism (Mass Communication) in the MBICEM is a comprehensive programme but living prepares students to work and a maximum of different forms of media, it would also print newspapers and magazines, radio, television and the Internet, especially on celebrities.

The three-year programme is divided into six semesters and provides the same emphasis on theoretical and practical training. The first half of the program lies in the social, economic and political life of the country since independence; principles of communication and language, among others. “Considering computer in the form of Quark Express, web design, drag page coral and facilitate, among others, gives students themselves during the first half,” Julka said. The second half covers widely printed media, including reporting, processing and photo-journalism. “The students here are” hands-on “experience shooting indoors and outdoors with different techniques and the development of them in their own,” she said.

Radio journalism is the emphasis during the third quarter, where radio production, script and the presentation is taught to students. The hotel has its own studio to that effect, where students can vote, the random noise, modify and even air their programs on campuses MBICEM.

The fourth semester focuses on journalism television. Julka noticed “In this semester, students are educated on the entire process of preparing a television ideating messages directly from screening. Scripting, Production, production, costumes, lighting and camera, our students are well versed in all areas. ” Students are taught, with the latest technologies such as non-linear, Panasonic and Sony digital cameras professionals, television personalities messages issuer. The advertising for radio, television and radio is also taught in this semester.

The fifth semester brings cyber-journalism, public relations and management of the event and the last semester, modules portfolio management, the media world scenario and current technologies in the media. “In addition, we have a document on personality development, where entries clothes law and order and to talk about positive values for students. We have a document on the media and research, as a general rule, the teacher teaches at other institutions where students, a pre-test equipment, post-evaluation and perception, among others, “cried she says.

“First Frame”, students Film Festival organized by students at the MBICEM provides a platform for candidates to film makers to submit their work. The event drew the participation not only from other media, schools in India, but Canada and the USA as well.