The Department of Visual Communication, J.J. College of Arts and Science, Pudukottai, organised a `film appreciation session’ at the viewing hall of the college recently.

R. Seshadri Rajan, Educational Multimedia Research Centre, Madurai Kamaraj University, was the chief guest and he exquisitely navigated the session. Two great pieces namely `Bicycle Thieves’ directed by Vittoria De Sica and `Pather Panchali’ directed by Satyajit Ray, were screened on the occasion.

Mr. Rajan explained how to read, conceive and review a film. He also dilated on the idea of categorising the genres of films.

For a question raised by a student into what genre the films Pather Panchali and Bicycle Thieves, he delineated the difference realistic film and neo realistic films. He also added that both were the best examples for neo-realistic films. The Head of the Department of Visual Communication of the College, S. Parthasarathy also spoke.

On behalf of the Department of Biotechnology, the BIBS Association of the Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Arts and Science (women), Perambalur, conducted a State-level seminar on `Biotechnology: prospects and retrospect’. The Reader, Department of Microbiology, National Facility for Marine-Cyanobacteria, Bharathidasan University, N. Thajuddin, in his inaugural address spoke about the importance of micro algal Biotechnology referring the uses of algae, need for SCP and the efficiency of Spirullina’. The department magazine `Acmetech 05′ was released by the Director, The Rapinat Herbarium and Centre for Molecular Systematics, St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchi and Dr. Thajuddin received the first copy.

In the sessions that followed, Dr. John Britto, spoke on `Ethical issues in biotechnology’ when he referred to the probable effect of Biotechnology, the ethical and social impact of Biotechnology and the human therapeutic cloning. Scientist from the Botanical Survey of India, Southern Circle, Yercaud, S. Kaliamoorthy, spoke on the `recent trends in plant tissue culture’ and the Professor and Head, Department of Biotechnology, Mahendra College of Arts and Science, Namakkal, spoke on `Opportunities in Biotechnology.

The Dean, Faculty of Life Science of the college, S. Sankaran delivered the valedictory address and the Principal, R. M. Meenakshi presided.

The Department of Management Studies of the Thanthai Hans Roever College, Perambalur, organised the second activity week 2005 recently, when experts from different fields gave guest lectures. Rajendran, lecturer, Department of Social Work, delivered a lecture `Mental health and management’.

The senior manager, Madras Cements Limited, S. N. M. Suri spoke on the `Need for human resources: accounting and auditing’ in the present day scenario and elaborated the potential of HRs in running a successful show.

Mr. Senthilnathan, an advocate, delivered an awareness lecture on legal aspects concerning consumerism and management, Senior Manager, accounts, Madras Cements Limited, Sridhar emphasised the existing accounting practices being followed in leading industries during his special lecture and R. Victor Lazarus of Southern Railway spoke on `essentials of communication and personality development.

More than 130 research papers were presented and 250 participants deliberated in the four technical sessions at the three-day 12th annual session of the Tamil Nadu History Congress held at A.V.C. College at Mayiladuturai in Nagapattinam district organised by the Department of History of the college recently.

Pydah Educational Academy in the city will offer MBA of Madurai Kamaraj University, launched in association with National Institute of Applied Management (NIAM), New Delhi.

Announcing this at a press conference here on Friday, academy chairman Pydah Krishna Prasad said that the two-year full-time course recognised by the University Grants Commission was an industry-integrated programme.

The new course replaces the conventional educational programme which produced educated human capital primarily with theoretical knowledge but lacked industry orientation, he said.

“The special feature of our course is that the students will be in the class and in the industry for three days each in a week.

The programme has in-built advantage of simultaneous learning and practising, results in parallel skill development and includes compulsory in-house training in the first semester at our campus in Gambheeram on the city outskirts,” he said.

The MBA course has specialisations in sales and marketing, financial service and banking, retail management, international business and information technology, he added. Mr. Prasad claimed that the academy was one of the two centres in the State to offer the innovative course designed by MKU and NIAM.

The NIAM is associated with companies like GE Capital ICICI Bank, Tata AIG, Airtel, Titan Industries, Bank of Punjab, HDFC Bank, IDBI, Tata Indicom, India Bulls, NIIT Technologies, and Karvy Securities.

Once they complete the course, the students would be fit to be absorbed by the industry straight away, he claimed.

The Department of Management Studies at the University of Madurai Kamaraj of Madurai in Tamil Nadu offer Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) programmes among others.

It issues a permit for students, based on the assessments of Madurai Kamaraj University common entrance test (MKUCET). Each batch has 50 students aged 22 on average. All students of the Institute have found internships.

The Institute has 26 full-time and 10 meeting Fac.

The campus east of 3.64 hectares. It includes a student residence, library and information technology, residential center for teachers and staff, sport and recreation executive, conference rooms, student commonroom and canteen.

Its library has 50570 books, 41 magazines and 206 compact discs (CD) / video.

Your IT infrastructure is composed of four computer laboratories with Internet connection, 12 computers and 120 servers.

MADURAI: The Department of Management Studies (DOMS) of Madurai Kamaraj University has planned to start a business enterprise with equity participation from its alumni association, as part of its silver jubilee celebrations on December 23 and 24, said its U. Surya Rao, Professor and Head.

Briefing presspersons about the celebrations here on Monday, he said that the enterprise would primarily be a trading centre doing retail business based on the bazaar concept.

Listing out the achievements of the department, he claimed that that DOMS was ranked 12th among the best management institutes of the country by the All India Management Association.

He said that the department was considering revival of the proposal to start a course on Industrial Management. From next year, the department had planned to opt for students selected from national-level tests as most of the examinations were conducted and results declared well in advance to facilitate easy admission, he said.

Courses with applications of remote sensing, Geographical Information System, Global Positioning System Benefit-61 in Pune, in the remaining 12 centres
Express News Service

Pune, April 4: FOR the past four weeks, 61 students from the geomatics at the University of Pune, learn about technologies such as Remote Sensing (RS), geographic information systems (GIS) and the system Global Positioning (GPS) by more than 15 scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), in collaboration with their colleagues from 12 other universities across the country - and all this without having to their local university.

The six weeks of ISRO, of course, sponsored the “Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System and Global Positioning System,” April 19 virtual close based on the concept of the classroom with presentations and demonstrations on the ground regarding telecasted EDUSAT satellite network.

It was adopted by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun, University of Pune, and has been regarded as one of the transfer centres for the implementation of the virtual classroom. Among the 12 other centers, universities, such as the University and the Rajiv Gandhi Madurai Kamaraj University.

“The aim of the course was to experts on the theme of the user community, including academic institutions, training students in technology and its applications to the overall objective of technology transfer and user awareness , “says the coordinator, of course, Vrishali Deosthali.

The level of trust with students from the three bases of technology, followed by a demonstration of the software and related instruments.

The program module that the use of RS, GIS and GPS in areas such as water resource management, agriculture, forest inventory, land use and land cover mapping, disaster management, such as floods and drought.

With the demonstration of software and data collected by the IIRS, the conferences live on television were transferred to and every half-hour followed by a half-hour interactive session, where students can submit questions teachers.

Regardless IIRS six tests for the courses. On April 19, 45 of these 61 students receive certificates for the implementation of training (the remaining 16 have not been able to offer our course, because the data rasselte with their semester exams).

This training was designed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) ’s Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) and developing countries and educational Communication Unit (DECU) of ISRO, while the lectures were to ‘Electronic Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC) An From the University of Pune.