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.

St. John’s University conferred 2,146 undergraduate degrees at three graduation ceremonies held over the weekend.

The Rev. Donald J. Harrington, president of the university, gave the keynote address at all ceremonies for the 122d commencement exercises.

Addressing the students at the campus in Jamaica, Queens, yesterday, Father Harrington told the students that “the quality of life in society rests upon the quality of education in our grammar and high schools and in our colleges and universities.”

Referring to the rioting in Los Angeles, he said, “Regardless of how we interpret the events of the past month, regardless of where we seek to place the blame, I submit to you that an essential part of any solution must be the renewal of the educational system of our land.” Industry, Health, Banking

At the first ceremony, held in Alumni Hall in the morning, an honorary doctor of commercial science degree was awarded to Michael E. Maher, an alumnus of the university who is chairman of Maher Terminals Inc. in New Jersey, one of the largest independent container terminal operators.

Sister Irene Kraus, president of the Daughters of Charity National Health System in St. Louis, received an honorary doctor of letters degree.

In the ceremony held in the afternoon, also in Alumni Hall, an honorary doctor of commercial science degree was awarded to Richard T. Greene, president of Carver Federal Savings Bank, one of the largest black-owned financial institutions in the nation.

Edward Mercado, director of the Office of Civil Rights for the Department of Health and Human Services, received an honorary doctor of laws degree.

On Saturday, a commencement ceremony was held on the Grymes Hill campus of the university in Staten Island. An honorary doctor of civil law degree was awarded to Josephine L. Gambino, president and senior member of the New York Civil Service Commission. Cornell University

Cornell University’s 124th commencement took place yesterday in a cold rain with temperatures in the 30’s, prompting the university’s president, Frank H. T. Rhodes, to cut short his prepared remarks to the 5,900 graduates. University officials said it was the first time in 17 years that it had rained on commencement.

Each of the graduates of Cornell’s 11 schools and colleges at the ceremony, which was still held outdoors on the campus in Ithaca, N.Y., was given a red rose. Mr. Rhodes used the occasion to remind them to “take time to smell the roses.”

Several times a week for two years, Abraham Zaleznik, a professor at Harvard Business School and practitioners psychoanalysts, was created by the president of a large American group to his supervisor a plush offices of Boston’s skyscrapers. In order to write a biography of the committee, Mr. Zaleznik settle a slight lead chair and begins his tape recorder, and the businessman would talk about his ambitions and emotions, projects, it took declaration of love and its plans.

Hundreds of hours of interviews, history was born a company president, was able to feel like the seduction of power, was forced to make decisions that stirred his sense of fairness. Mr. Zaleznik its theme and spoke about the businessman’s regrets and lessons to learn from its experiences.

But the executive decided at the end of completing the book. ”I think there were some ambivalence about him, because he knew he was not able to be on a podium,’’said Zaleznik. Unfortunately,”I do not think he understands the importance of his life.”

The psycho-biographies aside for typical problems related to the review of the personalities of leaders: They are not always willing to discuss or allow the study, as they think. But Mr. Zaleznik persists, try inside the heads of corporate head interviews, observation and psychoanalysis at work.

In order to study on the psychology of the entrepreneur, Harvard University, last month appointed the 59 years of solitary Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership.

The chair is equipped with a donation of $ 1 million by Matsushita Electric Industrial Company of Japan, for the first time a foreign company has stiftete a professorship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Business Administration. The grant is the result of negotiations in 1981 by M. Zaleznik and a colleague who went to Japan for funding is requested.

”In the past 25 years, emphasis on Business Schools was to improve the technical skills of students so that they can better financial analysts, statisticians better, better enforcement of economists’ ’said Zaleznik, in an interview at his Lexington home, Out of Boston. ”We have lost what I believe is an important idea that the execution of an organization with a human dimension. I see this chair as a determined effort to really detail in the centre of an organization.”

Other teachers not to ignore the factors of personality, but a lot of stress management courses organization charts, with lines of the Authority, productivity and rewards. These can be learned, thought, but it is difficult to negotiate someone for a certain type of person.

Professor Zaleznik says, however, that the company’s success is more by the personality of their leaders by how they are organized. The person in charge, he said,”is the instrument by loyalty and morality is created and people are motivated.”Personal relations between the leadership and downstream are more important, he added, that those reports to a staff member. And he said, students can indeed learn how personal relationships.

Professor Zaleznik has isolated the approach of the Harvard Business School, and collected a few eyebrows as if the date was announced. Le”doyen knew very well that this would be a controversial appointment,’’said a person familiar with the decision requested not mentioned.

R.S. Baskkaran, professor, Periyar anniversary Polytechnic College, Vallam, received the “Best Polytechnic Teacher Award” for 2005 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the polytechnic education system.

The release given here by the Polytechnic said the award was NO Shetty, chairman, Southwestern Region, AICTE, Bangalore, in the constitutive of the eighth Indian company for technical training Annual Convention (Tamil Nadu and Pondichery section ) Held a PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul.

More than 300 technical papers presented at the Convention different high schools and specialized engineering schools, five papers were prepared and presented by members of the Faculty Periyar anniversary Polytechnic College.

P. Arul Selvan, professor, Department of Communication, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, a conference on “Community Radio experiences in India under the aegis of the Division of visual communication JJ College of Arts and Science, Pudukottai, recently.

It explains the philosophy behind the concept of Community Radio, run by you the people for the people and on behalf of the people. Community radio in general reflects the problems of people in their own dialect and non-profit organizations.

Dr. Arul Selvan said that the establishment of a community radio station does not cost much. They are far from the Nepali SriLankan and municipalities, whereas the experiment is still at the beginning of the country. Anna FM, started by Anna University, is the first campus radio in India.

S. Parthasarathy, Director, Division of visual communication; Suganthini Joyce, professor in the department, spoke.

Students of the social division of labour, JJ College of Arts and Science, an outreach program of “alcoholism” MCT school registration in Arangal Namanasamudram. Swagurunathan, Principal of the school; Cyril, teachers and Ponnarasan, physical education teacher; spoke on the occasion. Bharathimohan and Ravi Kumar, both the Khajamalai Ladies Association, Tiruchi, cultural programmes, the awareness of students on the harmful effects of alcohol and drugs.

The department of microbiology and biotechnology for Srinivasan College of Arts and Science, Perambalur, is organizing a seminar on “emerging trends in life sciences recently. S. Sankaran, Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Arts and Science for Women, was the guest conductor. It motivates students with new ideas on relevant areas. Pupils and students actively in the interactive session in the port.

The association Bio-Pearl of the department of bio-chemistry of Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Arts and Science, Perambalur, organized a specific course of the programme for the benefit of life sciences students. N. Pradeep Kumar, project manager and coordinator of the programme and bio-informatics Institute of India, Hyderabad, a conference on career prospects and projects of life sciences. He invited students to be more aware of recent trends and the importance of the major problems in the field of life sciences. He also stressed the importance of research.

During the interactive session, Mr. Pradeep Kumar clarify various concerns of students.

The main R.M. Meenakshi, the presidency of the function. The head of the department of bio-chemistry, P. Manju, spoke.

The Rotaract Club of college Ranganathapuram village. The club has planned to organise camps and awareness programmes in the village and take careful planning in this regard was held recently. The club members have visited the village and spoke with the chairman of village panchayats, Chinnasamy and other members away.

One day during training programme for government officials was held in Thai Than Hans Roever College, Perambalur recently. This program was organized jointly by the Department of Management Studies and Department of Social Work college.

Purious debt market was the denial of benefits of e-business and India, the difficulties of catching up with Global Supply Chain Management, in the conclusion of a faculty of God for development programmes “e-business and Supply Chain Management (SCM), organized by the Department of Management Studies, National Institute of Technology, there are few.

The dominance of market fundamentals is reflected in the personal nature of market participants and labelling factor that blocks the emergence of new products, regardless of their quality and cost competitiveness, bode well for ‘evacuation optimum benefits of e-business, the Vice-Chancellor of Bharathidasan University, C. Thangamuthu, said the management of participants in the 11-day session, sponsored by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

In the field of education on the concept of SCM is not functioning properly because of congestion institutional consideration of strategies as a terminal at the end of each stage and not as an ongoing process, “he said in reference on the functioning of the Indian Institute of Management in the country’s islands of excellence. Redundancy was the biggest chore of higher education, quality upgradation a matter of time.

Management experts, he insisted, it took courage to constraints in order to enhance the symmetry of information through integration with the market and improve the dissemination of information.

P.C. Narayan, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, worked, a meeting on “E-Banking”, noted that art “naturally” half-management experts to facilitate the transition to the next generation of Students `E-life.”

The usefulness of these programs, he said, should be optimized for a mesh “knowledge” essential to strengthen the forces and transmit them with the value of salvation for students, and they prepare for a digital life.

Given the primacy of technology management of the successful projects, the Director (In-Charge) NITT, S. Subramanian, spoke about the importance of taking good decisions at the right time. Mr. Puniamoorthy, Head, Department of Management Studies, NITT, invited the participants to specialists in areas such as marketing, finance and operations.

Provide feedback from participants indicated that the programme, provided that give them an overview of the practical aspects of risk management and optimization of resources.

The Programme Coordinator, G. Kannabiran, said the participants visited BHEL, Tiruchi to understand the functioning of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and E-business systems. Furthermore, have a interaction with managers BHEL, Titan Industries, i2 Technologies and IBM.

The topics included in the programme, IT and competitive advantage, Business-to-Consumer e-Business, Business to Business E-Business, e-banking, e-procurement, security in e-commerce , Questions of social law E-Business, ERP - concepts, technologies and implementation, SCM - Concepts, technology and implementation, and Business Process Reengineering.

Max New York Life Insurance Company of Gurgaon 20 ranking of India is the first list of Top 25 Great Places to Work.

The list was based on a survey of five months Grow talent company Delhi, in collaboration with Business World and Great Place to Work Institute Inc. The Great Place to Work model focuses on the staff, who to say about their workplaces.

It focuses on three main parameters of confidence (Do you have confidence in the people with whom you work?), Pride (pride, what you are doing?) And camaraderie (such as people with whom you work?). The survey of 20000 employees in 120 sites and participation was voluntary. Max New York Life employs 743 people in 18 sites. There were three women in senior management level and eight people, more than 44 years. Turnover rate is 26 percent. On a scale of five, the company had a rating of three on the four main parameters of fun working space, the development opportunities of camaraderie and pride. The company carefully implemented its philosophy to reward good performance. Agents and employees of the company with a lot of money, recognition of specific training and other rewards if they do well. The objectives are steep, 100 percent annual growth at all levels and latecomers will not be retained. Key Result Areas (kras) frameworks are available on intranets companies.

At 25, Kapil Pandey, he had so much to its benefit. Within a few months the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and it would be called a man with a plum job in the business world.

At a time when most kids think about himself, Pandey to change the lives of street children.

Currently, with the active participation of the same friends, he runs an organization called Kutumb (family). And these teenagers every afternoon Manjima, Devyani, Robins, Raghav, Medha and Sanjay - some time, reduced to use innovative methods of teaching for a year Kutumb attractive to children.

The children of slum dwellers and employees by day, spent their day on the roads, alms to beggars, orders and lumpen apprentices in the automotive, workshops close to proceed in Khan Market, are changed much.

Fourteen years, Ravi (in the mouth People known as “Hero”), the obligation denting-cum-painting jobs in a workshop car, went to school a few years ago. But without changing Kutumb made in his life. For each type of work he is the most coveted in the group. Pandey said: “It is a child, has done a good job in all areas of development academics, sports, music, volunteer work, organizing tasks and arts and crafts, including Candlewood-how.”

Similarly, 15 years, Asha is a class VIII student. After an alcoholic father, Asha has been the entire budget. But think about it, it is regarded as one of gifted children.

After Pandey it very well in the form of behaviour, mental discipline, learn and pass on what she learned. You’ll soon the implementation of workshops embroidery, knitting and other activities.

Thus, with 200 children in the roles, 70 and 80 in the age group 17 to four Kutumb to go regularly to university education, play football and basketball and a member in the global development agenda .

While some are Pandey’s friends, the daily operation of the Foundation Kutumb, several others are in various events. This includes the goal-of-Life “(an international NGO annual children’s football competition), Josh-e-Umang (children and theatre festival ke Vaasi Gole (club cinema for children).

There are also other programs such as Indradhanush, which helps children, have dropped, which are not in school. The “open schools”, the program allows testing for their help and therefore new scientific advances with their efforts.

Saarthi is an investment program supports children, although they are talented, difficulty finding a job. He is preparing for interviews and discussions pre-placement. Orientation career has also played an important role, with an emphasis on vocational guidance and explore career options, children have not yet taken into account.

Indian Institute of Management Training (IIMT), Pune spouses for its students Allround development. The emphasis is on preparing students in their respective areas and adapting to any change in the environment. The Institute has a Full-time two-year courses management, with specialization in the fields of marketing, production and materials, systems and operations research, finance and personnel and human resources . The Institute also offers a year of a part-time courses, which was designed to meet the demands of working life professionals. The core of the Faculty of top level is composed of professors from various prestigious educational institutions with an experience of over 15 years.