Paul Wellings, the vice chancellor of the Lancaster University, United Kingdom was recently in the Capital on a brief visit. During his visit a memorandum-of-understanding was signed between the Lancaster University and Jawaharlal Nehru University for conducting joint research in social sciences, says a press release.

Apart from this, Lancaster University has recently entered into partnerships to offer joint-degree programmes with Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and collaborative degrees and joint research agreement in life sciences with Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). In addition, an agreement has been formulated for research cooperation with Lancaster INFOLAB21 and Computer and Communications Research, Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Management conclave

The GLA Institute of Technology and Management, Mathura recently organised a management conclave `Managing change and transformation in India Inc in global perspective,’ says a press note. The conclave was inaugurated by A Kalanidhi, former vice chancellor, Anna University and advisor, Sterling Infocom Ltd; Alok Aggarwal, executive director, Polar Industries and Ganeshi Lal Aggarwal. The event began with a `Saraswati vandana’, which was followed by the presentation of the conclave theme by Alok Aggarwal, in which he stressed on the need to be fully abreast with the corporate sector and the importance of affordability, acceptability and availability in the same. In a highly motivating lecture, Kalanidhi expressed his simple yet profound ideas, on the occasion. Mementos were presented to distinguished speakers and a cash reward of Rs 10,000 was announced for the MBA topper of the institute.

Accolades for Aptech

Adding yet another feather to its cap, Aptech has been named among `India’s Biggest Newsmakers’ in the second annual Business Today - Cirrus Review of CEOs and Companies that got the best press coverage in 2004, as per a press release.

A global learning organisation, Aptech Ltd is playing a key role in helping individuals, organisations and nations adapt to the changing requirements of a knowledge-driven world. It has acted as a catalyst to change by encouraging the sharing of knowledge through intelligent training and education solutions. Aptech’s recent forays include learning services - e-learning and consultancy, ATTEST - testing and certification and Aptech Higher Education Services.

IMT courses

The Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad invites applications for courses through the distance-learning mode. The courses are affiliated to the Vidyasagar University, West Bengal. The courses are: Master’s in Business Administration (MBA); Master’s in Human Resource Management (MHRM); Master’s in Marketing Management (MMM) and Master’s in Supply Chain Management (MSCM). The eligibility is a graduation or appearing in the final year.

In addition, it invites applications for one-year specialised diplomas in business administration, marketing management, personnel management, financial management, export management and material management. The eligibility for these courses is a 10+2 with a five-year experience or graduation, or a three-year diploma in engineering from the board of technical education, after a 10+2.

The forms and prospectus are available on payment of Rs 700 in cash. Contact the Advanced Management Institute, 67 (Basement), Hargovind Enclave, Opposite Railway Reservation Centre, Karkardooma, Delhi-92. The deadline is March 6, 2005. E-mail:imtdelhi9@yahoo.com.

Paramedical courses

The Nice Academy of Paramedical Sciences affiliated to Ch Charan Singh University, Meerut, under IDE invites applications for programmes, namely, hospital management; radio imaging technology and medical laboratory technology, wherein, the duration of the degree courses is three years and diploma and certificate course is one-year. In addition, it offers a physiotherapy programme, where the duration for the degree course is four years and diploma and certificate course is a one-year.

THE SECOND batch complete the Graduate Diploma in Post-Infrastructure Management (PGDIM), proposed by the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), is scheduled for the beginning of the School of Management for buildings, facilities and development strategies (MINDS) India, here.

The PGDIM one year full-time for graduates in all disciplines of engineering sciences, including agriculture and the technical architecture and doctorates in other disciplines.

The program focuses on planning tools, project management, Contract Management, Infrastructure Finance, Information and communication technologies (ICTs), applications and geographic information systems; strategic environmental assessment, legal and regulatory environment and emerging paradigms.

ISD signed a Memorandum of Understanding

The city-based Dayananda Sagar institutions (ISD) has, in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Uganda as a technical partner and academic institutions of higher education is it in Uganda, for the know - make the ISD.

The partnership, according to the authorities JG allows upgradation of existing programs and new programs from time to time in institutions of higher education in Uganda. “DSI, put its infrastructure and the Faculty for teachers and students work on joint programmes and Bangalore in Uganda,” she said.

In addition to the partnership allows the exchange of professors and students between universities in Uganda and DSI.

DSI receive students in universities in Uganda charging on its institutions of higher education within the partnership.

The technical and scientific cooperation in information technology, engineering, management, languages, health sciences and health care.

As part of the agreement, which Sagar group will help to plan and build a pediatric health care in Uganda with the commitment to the development of national centres of education in this country, JG President D. Hemachandra Sagar.

The declaration of intent was signed by Fred Beyendoca, High Commissioner and Nimisha Madhvani, Deputy High Commissioner of the Government of India in Uganda, and Dr. Sagar.

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.

As always, you professionals are faced with the problem of deciding whether or not to join higher education or remotely via the campus mode. They asked the settings in different perspectives.

As an engineer, you have decided, in the field of materials management, which is encouraging. As fresh diploma, you need to examine the program at regular intervals with the Indian Institute of Materials Management (IIMM)

It could be graduation diploma in regular Materials Management (GDMM), which is managed by the Human Resource Development Ministry for the purpose of obtaining staff to senior posts and services in the central government. At the end of the program, you can exercise, as an MBA (Material Management) as a regular / student correspondence lateral entry into the system, which lasts one year. Under this plan, you’ll be able to make a mark. MP Bhoj Open University is recognized by the UGC, IAU (Association of Indian Universities) and AICTE and, therefore, there is no discomfort in monitoring the course by IIMM. In Bangalore, you can contact the Indian Institute of Materials Management, 304, 3rd Floor, Mittal Towers, No. 6, MG Road, Bangalore-560 001 Tel: 25327251/25327252.

New Delhi: A post-graduate of the London School of Economics dismissal of several young and more pay, as RS 2 lakh for the plum job of the United Kingdom - Computers for professionals British Railways.

The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police has arrested Maharukh Javat, LSE holds a diploma in computer science. A case of fraud, breach of criminal law and trust was a criminal conspiracy, a few days back on the complaint of several persons who claimed they were misled by a Mumbai company, Mazda Information & Systems Technologies, which also took place at a branch Civil Lines, New Delhi.

The complaint, the company had declared an advertisement in the newspaper in November 2003, which seeks professionals 40-45 British Railways. The company, by Javat with Rakesh Grover argued that it had signed a contract with the British Railways may computers professionals a monthly salary of £ 3,000 (about Rs 2.4 lakh) with accommodation and meals free of charge.

The selected candidates were then trained in computer operations for about four months in New Delhi. During training””, they were available in different forms. Each candidate was asked to pay RS 2 lakh for training, tickets for the United Kingdom, visa and job placement.

They were later told British Railway staff would be given specialized training. After training, it was said, they wait until their employment policy a letter that companies would mail home. Many candidates have also resigned jobs in call centers and sales organizations so that they can operate in the United Kingdom. Most of them came from New Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.

After a few months, when the letter was nowhere in sight, candidates began to put pressure on companies officials said their accession appointment had only been postponed. In April 2004, the company has stopped his Civil Lines. Surveys Brit Rail was a subsidiary of ACP Marketing Ltd, Canada based on a sale of railway, which had nothing to do, Javat. If candidates have made them, some have received cheques to be returned.

Javat, lives in Mumbai, has landed on the network of police, as they have come to New Delhi a business venture. A student of Sophia University, she also had a master’s degree in management from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Sciences.

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 Institute of Tourism of Kerala and study tours (Christophe) will soon be a part-time position-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration travel and tourism.

Intended to people in tourism and the tourism sector, classes for the program year will be held in the evening, Mr G. Chandramohan, Director, Christophe, told Business Line.

During KITTS would be responsible for the implementation of the programme, based on the Gwalior Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM), the award diploma. The whole development plan and learning course, is also the IITTM, he said.

KIITS is the southern part of the regional chapter IITTM, but the responsibility for internal evaluation “an integral part of the course. Furthermore, on the anvil is one of the six-month course in air ticketing.

According to Mr. Chandramohan two-year post-graduate management KITTS was strongly requested. The current full-time, which is structured on regular an MBA, focusing on compliance with the requirements of tourism and travel industry.

The students were able to get an idea in the modus operandi of the industry, because most people resources for trainees came from tourism and travel industry.

Besides the students were also expected that the development of products for the tourism industry of Kerala and practical experience.

Almost all students, this course has been able to find good jobs in the travel industry, he said.

Another popular program KITTS was proposed by the certificate, of course, for masseurs. The six-month course in particular, in great demand, students professional masseurs. But those who do, of course, a right to work as masseurs and were not allowed to practice ayurvedic treatment, “says Chandramohan.

In addition to these programmes, the Institute - founded in 1988 by Kerala’s Department of Tourism - even in the short-term training programs for workers in the tourism and travel sector. Furthermore, it is also regular training programmes for the coordinators of tourism associations in schools and universities across the state.

Mike Brearley has a reputation of the Indian occupation stars of yesteryears on Technical Barriers to the Advisory Committee on sports management in the city of diploma-based Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management Kick Off next year.

Former Kricketspieler Raju Mukherjee, who knows the former “Captain thought” England is long and ambitious, the head of Post-Graduate Course, said the statesman that the possibility, it would also try software to talk Brearley, Cambridge Man on a ranking of examining the public service in his country in 1964 for the supply of conferences at the Institute.

“It will not be very difficult, because of its laws in this country, and he visited often,” Mukherjee added. Leslie Claudius, Sunil Gavaskar Vece Paes and are also on the board of the group, to which Mr. Irvin Morris, the advisor of British sport was added.

“This is catch price,” said Mukherjee. Mr. Morris, a hand in the promotion of both cricket and football in several countries, is a central figure in a project aimed at setting up their students for this type of sport on topics such as links with the law and the insurance sector which hitherto unknown in India.

Retailers Association of India (RAI) and the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), met for a course of six months from Visual Merchandising.

The programme Professional Visual Merchandising & Creative Communication is described as the first of its kind in the country.

The phenomenon of visual presentation or it is turned on goods, with thematic accessories, is in its emergence staged in India, “said Gibson G Veda Mani, CEO, RAI, in a statement. The course, help participants learn through experience, to design a project and made an announcement, building materials and accessories needed and drive the project to completion, “said Atul Tandan, director, the MICA.

After the meadow to leave the program, with a portfolio of drawings and photographs of projects and be ready for Entry-level position in the purchase of houses, shops and specialty boutiques as visual merchandisers, window trim and independent artists.

The full-time program will start on July 20. For students with a diploma with a favorite two years’ professional experience would be entitled to participate in the program. For more information, see 2852 0148 or 2852 0149.

Pune, July 21: hospitals are not doctors and nurses alone. There is a whole army, so to speak, behind the scenes on a timely treatment of patients dealing with their complaints and ensure that the deliveries, there is any quantity. You’ll feel hospital administrators.

This is a new area, and it was in the years 1980, the Hospital administration has emerged as a career option. In many places, hospitals are still medical care Superintendent, most elderly doctor. But there is a lack of training in management skills. There is no guarantee that a good doctor is a good administrator. This weapon of degree or diploma are linked to a better job because they have the capacity.

There is a growing demand for qualified hospital administrator. “ The need for hospital administrators is much larger than urban, semi-finished in modern facilities that are not readily available,’’said Dr. RK Gupta, director of a private clinic.

Functions: hospital administrators to organize and manage personnel, equipment and ancillary services. You are responsible for the recruitment and supervision of personnel, budgets, fees charged to patients and the establishment of procedures for billing. They also assist in planning the necessary space, purchase of supplies and equipment, supervision and construction and maintenance equipment.