The world renowned Cranfield School of Management in the UK will present a scholarship to any member of the three leading IFAC accountancy bodies in Sri Lanka, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants Sri Lanka (ICASL) or the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Sri Lanka Branch (CIMA). Full Time MBA Programme Director Sean Rickard who informed Sri Lanka of the scholarship said, “We hope the scholarship attracts candidates who will benefit from this initiative and that, with the help of the accounting bodies in Sri Lanka, it will raise Cranfield’s profile. We are extremely grateful for the support of the institutes in this. We will be reviewing the success of the programme after two years.”

ACCA Sri Lanka’s Immediate Past President, Dilshan Rodrigo, himself an alumni of the Cranfield School of Management extends his best wishes to all candidates and says, “I hope most sincerely that this initiative will signal the birth of a new generation of professional skilled managers who will add value to the corporate boardrooms of Sri Lanka.” Stating that this is truly a world class MBA ranked consistently as one of the top MBAs in Europe, he adds, “This one year full time programme is ideally suited for members in middle and senior management positions with ambitious career goals.” Rodrigo, who has continued to maintain ties with Cranfield, further reinforced the relationship once he became President of ACCA Sri Lanka, sourcing resource speakers for the ACCA National Conferences in the last two years. “Two people who played significant roles in mooting this scholarship from the Cranfield end are the former Director of the MBA Programme Professor Leo Murray who was the Keynote Speaker at our conference in 2006 and has a soft spot for Sri Lankans and Sri Sriskanthan, a Sri Lankan faculty member on the MBA programme.”

Cranfield has produced a distinguished honour roll of MBA alumni from Sri Lanka over the last two decades including Managing Director of Hatton National Bank Rajendra Theagarajah, Senior Vice President of WNS Arul Sivagananathan and Group Financial Controller of Stretchline Hasantha de Silva. Members of ICASL, ACCA and CIMA must apply directly to Cranfield School of Management, for which instructions are available on the Cranfield website ww.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/mba/, marking the application ‘Sri Lanka Scholarship’.

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Hewlett-Packard announced India, the development of its campus on the Move “initiative today to promote their products and solutions portfolio, under the earth the first educational institutions.

As part of the initiative, HP, while running a series of roadshows, including coverage of the main cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Salem, Trichy and other regions.

Talking about the initiative, P Raghuraman, Country Manager - Business Notebooks, Hewlett Packard, India said: “We agree with HP, the gap between what industry and academia who teach. Thanks to our success “Campus on the Move” initiative, we hope that with major universities across the country, improvement of school curricula so that they can to meet the needs of industry. ”

Under this initiative, HP offers the retail window for educational institutions for the implementation of information technology infrastructure, laptops, desktops and workstations, simple option of leasing measure After-Sales and Support. Many institutions have benefited from the implementation of “Campus with a wireless laptop with students to learn from anywhere on campus.

In recent years one of laptops, HP has delivered some of the most prestigious institutions such as symbiosis of India, Wellingkar, Manipal, Amity Business School, IIPM, Kalinga, Xavier’s Institute of Management, Sri Mahavir Jain, etc.

Hewlett-Packard, India’s Roll-out “Campus on the Move” initiative for the year 2006 to promote its products and solutions portfolio in the country schools.

As part of the “Campus on the Move ‘, HP, while running a series of roadshows, including coverage of the cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Salem and Trichy, among others.

Under this initiative, HP offers the retail window for educational institutions for the implementation of information technology infrastructure, laptops, desktops and workstations, simple option of leasing measure After-Sales and Support. Many institutions have benefited from the implementation of “Campus with a wireless laptop with students to learn from anywhere on campus.

P. Raghuraman, Country Manager, Business HP laptops, India, said: “We at HP, recognizes the gap between what industry and academia who teach. Thanks to our success,” Campus on the Move “initiative we hope to reach a major universities across the country, improvement of school curricula so that they can to meet the needs of industry. ”

In recent years one of laptops, HP has delivered some of the most prestigious institutions in India, as symbiosis, Wellingkar, Manipal, Amity Business School, IIPM, Kalinga, Xavier’s Institute of Management, Sri Mahavir Jain, etc.

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.

Pune: A team of seven senior officials of the Indo-french Research Advisory Committee and the Embassy of France in India, visit the Science and Technology Park (STP) at the University of Pune on Thursday to explore cooperation programmes in the fields of technology and protection of intellectual property rights (IPR).

Rajendra Jagdale, director of STP, the group is also sincerely advanced research funding for industrial research programmes, particularly in the field of information technology, embedded technology and automotive.

The delegation was represented by monitors PGS Rao and V of the Franco-Indian Centre for the promotion of cutting-edge research (IFCPAR), M Kumar of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Pascal Indranil Ghosh Chosset and embassy France, among others.

“The centre was looking on the financing of cutting-edge research in the fields of computer, automotive and technology board, which has never been done before,” said Jagdale TNN, and added that STP has launched an initiative to instruct and present communities Achievers and scope, you will find here.

“Pune’s strength lies in the field of computers and cars,” he said, adding a few players and possible areas of research have already been identified.

During a Franco-Indian Joint Workshop of Science Parks and technology incubators Pune have been planned in November this year, Jagdale said that 15 sewage treatment plants, 11 incubators and 15 sectors participate nearly 25 other partners in France for sharing of knowledge in the areas of research.

“This is followed by industry and universities Synergy meeting in December,” he says, however, added that the Joint Consultative Committee of the research is particularly “Scaling Up-care technology” and not on the development of more recent.

It may be recalled here that IFCPAR is a bilateral organization by the governments of India and France to promote collaborative research in frontier areas of science and technology between researchers from both countries.

Kozhikode: efforts on strengthening the position of women and the fight against poverty have been widely disseminated by drawing attention. The case illustrates the economies of developing sustainable innovative Coconut - Based micro-enterprises and the overall growth of the fight against poverty (Subicsha), implemented by the panchayats Perambra block by the district court Agency for Rural Development, a project designed with the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.

Women of all self-help group managed micro-enterprises curiosity triggered by a Team USA, who during a visit to India.

The team composed of scientists and technicians, on Monday was Subicsha around coconut defibring, soap, units and training centres managed by women entrepreneurs and have been impressed by the initiative.

Subicsha innovative is a special project of the Union for the Government Kozhikode circle with a total cost of Rs.1401 lakhs under the Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY).

The objective is the economic and social development of over 7000 women, who under the poverty line by creating micro-enterprises, dissemination, over a period of seven grama panchayats for the production of value-added products nuts coconut.

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC) has an agreement with Oracle India Pvt Ltd, an e-Governance Center of Excellence in Kolkata.

The idea behind the initiative is to create a white paper on the status and prospects of e-governance in the country.

When you’re finished, the White Paper is the Department of Information Technology, Government of India.

According to informed sources, starting by five professors from the IIMC would be in relation to the project, and could be increased at a later stage, depending on demand.

The sources said IIMC has decided to offer management development programmes.

The National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, offers hands-on experience to its students, in which students first-hand experience working in the industry. Thematic NITIE required to submit two months in summer course in the first year. They are necessary for a four-month internship with a company in its second year at the end of their academic year. The new students are exposed to the initiative of Mandi in the first week of their visitors figures of the Institute. You are also working on draft weekend for the duration of their course.

Bangalore image of the brand can be a drubbing in Bangalore. But aapnu Amdavad, praised the global branding of the world there are many brands woke up, is in a glittering new arena mark.

Years after the “Manchester of the East” is mitigated day, the last Mega City is a brand new look. It is professional - a film by 15 minutes from the city collection taste jingles on radio and ‘I love Ahmedabad “goods Road Shows - height of the city for investors.

A pioneer of this initiative, the Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA), with other institutions in Chipping

During a National Institute of Design (NID), the student has already “Amdavad Amaru” logo, a team from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), under the direction of Prof. N Ravichandran, creates the document strategy for brand building movement, AMA president said Rajiv Vastupal TOI.

In a move to schools on tribal, Bharti Foundation, New Delhi, and Xavier Institute for Sozial-Service (XISS) built a six-room primary schools in the hilly regions and the strains of the State.

The six schools that have been built, are: RC mission primary school in the village of Mamail block Murhu, Lutheran Primary School, Murhu, Lutherans Girl’s Primary School, Murhu, RC mission primary school ARKI, RC Mission elementary school, ARKI, RC Mission Primary School, Torpa and Kaijari Primary School, ARKI.

Officials in XISS said it has been widely reported in the children as their guardian.

? Most parents rued they educate their children, but was unable to do so because the lack of schools. But the initiative of the Institute gave all the help they need. Thus, they can now raise their children? supplemented by public servants.

After XISS officials, tribal, especially Mundas, 80 percent of the total population of these blocks and development sufficient efforts have been made in the field of education.

? Through this project, villages without schools were schools with a single. The main objective is to draw attention to the positive effects of education.

The village committees of education in six villages and committees took responsibility for monitoring the building. The total construction cost amounted to about 65000 R? sources said, adding that school construction began in April.

? Residents in villages as Mamail and Selda are so happy, a school for their children? Sources added.

However, sources said Selda and Kaijari two villages are accessible. We must walk up to two kilometres in schools and Kaijari Selda