Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow today announced its fourth six months General Management Programme for Defence officers. This 24 weeks General Management Programme is the fourth in a series of such programmes being organized for Defence officers, and the first at NOIDA campus. The programme is open to both short service commission officers and others. The programme was inaugurated today at the NOIDA campus by the Major General, SG Chatterji, VSM, Director General, Resettlement.

The response to the first three programmes conducted by IIML was a huge success with all 49 officers of the first programme and 60 of the second getting good job offers. The third batch, which is undergoing placements right now, is also witnessing a slew of great offers. This year after applying the selection criteria 59 Defence Officers from all three branches of the Armed forces have been selected for the programme. Out of the 59 Officers, 7 candidates are Lady Officers.

“Management education to defence personnel contributes to providing defence officers a second career choice after retirement. But the larger role in the national interest is to prepare a disciplined and responsible citizen to play important roles in today’s competitive business scenario” say Prof. NK Gupta & Prof. SC Bansal, Program Directors.

The Indian Armed Forces carefully selects Officers and continuously trains them in the art, science and craft of WINNING. Every year, hundreds of these Officers retire, with rich experience in learning, critical reasoning, objective decision making, creative thinking, leading and motivating people, running organisations and managing projects. The aim of the programme is to capitalize on these skills of the officers and optimize them to suit the corporate world’s requirements.

As in the past, the fourth programme is also expected to generate an enthusiastic response from the corporate world and given the intense nature of the programme it is sure to equip the participants with the necessary skill set so very essential to conquer the corporate world.

The objective of the GMP is to provide the participants with a basic understanding of the managerial systems and processes. The programme has been designed to provide the defence officers with basic functional inputs in subjects such as accounting and finance, decision sciences, organizational behavior, human resources management, communication skills, marketing, strategy, information technology and business environment.

The idea is to familiarize the officers with the requisite analytical tools and techniques; and develop a holistic perspective and global mindset to understand issues of an enterprise.

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Leading business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Genpact has roped in professors from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow to give its employees lessons in management skills and improving productivity.

Through electronically enabled interactive sessions, workers at Genpact’s operation hubs in Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Jaipur will learn the finer nuances of management, soft skills and strategic planning from senior professors of the business school.

This is an e-certificate programme in general management (e-CPGM) and there are 119 participants, most of whom have worked for one to three years.

“The objective of this programme is to develop managerial capabilities among people who are at the early stages of their career to enable them to effectively undertake managerial responsibilities,” said Ajay Singh, course director of IIM Lucknow.

The programme is divided into 12 modules. Keeping in mind the requirements of the industry, the modules are designed to create managerial and leadership competence among the professionals. There are 120 hours of e-enabled interactive sessions.

Singh said the programme was being run from IIM Lucknow’s Noida campus, which was being developed as a centre of excellence in the area of executive education.

The India headquartered Genpact operates service delivery centres in India, China, Hungary, Mexico, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain and the US.

Education should focus more on morals and ethics and should fight against fundamentalism, St. Joseph’s College principal Friday Ambrose Pinto said on Thursday. Education for the poor too is a vital aspect that should be taken up, he added. As Pinto speaking at ‘with relevance Excellence “, a conference of Catholic College of Karnataka on Thursday.

Speaking on ‘Vision of Christian higher education and its overview, and implications of Christian education, education Friday Pinto said should make people more moral and humanizes them. “While maintaining the highest standards, its demands that we produce a radical change in the person we educate - from selfish concerns to generosity to others.”

Emphasising on education for the poor, Pinto said Friday: “Education should struggle against unjust society, it should cater more to the poor and programmes should be taken up to empower them. Principal of St. Stephen’s in New Delhi, Dr Anil Wilson called for steps to rediscover the real meaning and purpose of education. “Let systemic changes be a reasoned response to needs and not a knee-jerk reaction to the time.”

The objective of the day-long conference was to create a model which is yet local to global, spiritually vibrant, socially relevant, emotionally balanced and leading to human enrichment. Deliberations also included topics like, if excellence in education can be fused with greater accessibility to Christian institutions.

Among the other speakers were Professor Jose and PD Leader of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Rev. Joe Fernandes, Vice-Provincial, Salesians of Don Bosco, Bangalore and Head and Professor, Department of Christian Studies, University of Madras, Joe De Mannath .

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has concluded an agreement with the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), in which the staff of the ONGC be subjected to study MBA at IIFT Super Unnati Prayas regime.

ONGC send their employees IIFT for a full-time, 18 months of the MBA program with a specialization in international affairs. The company is also the transfer of employees, have their headquarters in New Delhi to study residential students at the Institute. The objective of the regulation is to update the knowledge base of the ONGC leaders. IIFT out specific written tests ONGC leaders of five centres across India.

Twenty employees were selected for the course. The course is in line with the needs of the ONGC. Issues such as logistics of international trade, World Trade Organisation (WTO) and issues related to WTO, international trade policies, Managing Global Sourcing, international business strategy, standards and ethics are underway .

With a view to develop harmony between students’ mind and body, the Chandigarh education department has planned to introduce Yoga as a part of curriculum in the city schools from this session.

Disclosing this the DPI (S) S.K. Setia, said, “It is the brainchild of home secretary Krishan Mohan which will help students reach the pinnacle through healthy minds and fit bodies. Our objective is to make our students mentally alert and physically lithe.”

Telling further, Setia said, “Yoga will be of great benefit especially to those who are into sports as it is all about concentration.”

Yoga will be taught by the teachers of B.Ed Colleges and the classes would most probably be held during the morning assembly or in the free or games period. “Actually, the concept is in the pipeline and we are chalking out the programme. Very soon, it will be done,” added DPI.

The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) has concluded an agreement with Sun Microsystems for setting up an advanced laboratory information system (AISL), taking charge of his education Grid (EduGrid).

Sun Microsystems provides servers and software for the implementation of EduGrid. A Sun Advanced Computing Laboratory must also be established in the IIITM-K support to higher education and research activities. It contains very configuration of Sun servers, software and content quality for the sake of advanced subjects, students, professionals KR Srivathsan, Director, IIITM-K.

EduGrid The project was designed with the objective development of an education Grid infrastructure in institutions of higher education throughout the state, promoting the design and development of quality courses in various disciplines and development of standards in higher education by providing institutional Course high quality product and services on the network.

Prof. Srivathsan told Business Line here that Sun Microsystems has special relations with key universities worldwide. A large quantity of advanced software applications in engineering and science is, above all, Sun or Linux platforms. Academic Institutions use a heterogeneous computing environment and therefore Sun strict compliance with open standards, is an asset. “In addition, they provide significant discounts for academic institutions for equipment and almost all its software free for academic use. They also take charge of Linux. Our ultimate goal is a Sun Center of Excellence in IIITM-K. Thus, approximately 30 such centers throughout the world. It will spur us on the implementation of the advanced knowledge society, campus initiatives for the future, “he added.

The National Institute for Technology Kochi and Kozhikode University for Science and Technology are among those already included, as resource centres EduGrid. “We will soon, they are content for equipping laboratories and launches Web-based, of course, the content management systems for development and teacher training. IIITM-K EduGrid acts as a centre of operations and is also a resource centre, “says Professor Srivathsan.

The infrastructure of these centres is now completed the first phase. “She is the host of the EduGrid backbone network nodes, is a high-end server EduGrid all serve to ensure that all students and teachers in the institutions of the host. They are also a content server for the development of systems, including content development tools software. ”

The Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, cooperation with the EduGrid a project on the informal level. They are part of the national programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), whose objective is the development of teaching materials for 100 courses. These are more content as “wholesale”. Grid is the formation of such content to pack “Retail” distribution for other equally good content from institutions abroad, give lessons, teachers and help the presentation of content properly adapted to local plans for teaching higher education institutions in their normal course.

On ERNET discussions with India for setting up the network backbone of the grid, “said Professor Srivathsan last was probably the work begins in the next two months for the creation of the backbone. “We must bear in mind that the Union Ministry of Human Resources provides grants for All India Technical Education Council approved by the academic institutions and the library of the Commission Grant’s Indian National Digital Library in science and technology (INDEST) digital library ERNET only by initiatives “. Previously, IIITM-K-library became the first external member of the State in the INDEST consortium, the Ministry of the Union.

The Association of International Education in science, economics and entertainment (AIESEC), the world’s largest student-Run Organization has a network of more than 30000 students from 800 universities, is the organization of a conference on the theme “Leadership Development” in clubs Sterling to Puri, Orissa. The National Leadership Development Seminar (NLDS), September 22 to 27, in the presence of 300 students from 11 cities in India.

The objective of the conference is where the qualities of leadership among the delegates and inculcate values, to facilitate the effective use of these qualities. The conference aims to promote the development of certain basic skills - the presentation, sales, planning and inter-personal skills, students receiving secure housing in career management and other areas.

AIESEC in its 21 year in India, was the implementation of the seminar per year and it is important to herablassend veterans of the industry as Adi Godrej, Ratan Tata and MS Banga. Each year, the organization of a batch of new recruits volunteering by students in Indian universities to facilitate the achievement of its goals - the global leader in development.

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.

The changes are a series of criticisms. But if a change is sought to entry in most desired targets of National Education was the refusal to be bound higher. It was not a surprise if the changes planned and ratified in the IIT-JEE format virtually divided scientists, parents and students across the country. The situation is similar in the state. Votaries both the arguments have their own perception problem.

This increases the dust seems to have at least for some time with the reforms taking into account the effects that the year 2007. But the main argument that the necessary changes - that the pressure on students and is always open for debate on the next two years. If the changes actually reduce stress?

“Stress is linked. IIT is a dream destination and registration will not be so easy,” says Chukka Ramaiah, including the Institute of Coaching is considered the gateway to IITS.

Count of competition

There are several trailers for his argument. AKGoel chairman of the FIIT-JEE, another known coaching centre of the country said that the real cause of stress, competition more intense than the examination format. “Even middle and lower classes of parents are aware that admission to the IIT is possible,” he recalls the scene of a decade just back from these sections dreamed about it. “Given that the aspirants has Growing up, he pressure. Stress is linked to an integral part of the approval. ”

Statistics show that, for all 50 candidate countries, we get only in the IIT-portals. This year, two students lakh seat an objective of which about 4000, he made seven IITS Indian and School of Mines and informatics, Dhanbad and Benaras Hindu University (BHU) - the two institutions agree that students on the basis of ITI - JEE.

“About effort is futile,” says BS Rao, director of Sri Chaitanya educational institutions. He says he is to increase the pressure on students, after a IITS that during the preparation. Then reduce officials that the effort? “He is the intensification of competition is different than poor. If the world is worth noting-IIT graduates, it is because the competition is, “he recalls. Vijay A. Babu of Nalanda institutions true” review itself is not under pressure, but this is the fear of failure. ”

Better armed

Neither the students nor the parents in the state seem to be enthusiastic about the argument of stress. “Compared to students in North America, our children are better equipped to exert pressure, especially the aspirants of IIT, because of the reputation. Not everyone wants an IITian and expansion, pressure, “says Narender Reddy, a professor, his son is preparing for IIT-JEE.

If the proposal is one of the issues objectively negative step? “Yes,” says Goel. “IITians are a mark because of their personality.

They have high analytical skills. They do not just solve problems, but also create new problems and find solutions. The objective fashion can not test these capabilities “is the statement of Mr. Goel. The method can be red IIT not a student. The proof is that there is no CBSE Renner in the last 6 to 7 years, could be in an IIT. “Mr. Ramaiah to have, with its views.

Modern Indian Institute of Management (IIMM), Pune, India is among the top 50 business schools. It is unique because it is a clear curriculum and innovative teaching methods to ensure an exhibition vis-à-vis industrial life. It has advanced infrastructures to negotiate training in the areas of marketing, production, finance, human resources, management of human resources and management of information technology (IT). It has a well equipped library, and 300 computers. IIMM organizes workshops, seminars, games, debates, activities of joint venture and the interface regularly.

The objective is to facilitate the development of the personality of the student managers. IIMM founded in 1999.