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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CHENNAI: India Institute of Technology (IITS) have long been recognized as one of the best of our education system and also have the worldwide recognition that the institutions comparable to the best in the world, the vice-president, planning the communication, Montek Singh Ahluwalia said here on Friday.

As graduates of the IITS were well in the USA, the U.S. Congress recently adopted a resolution on the estimation of these institutions, alongside the assessment of contributions by Indian Americans on the U.S. economy .

India is indeed the rate of private savings on a broad basis of the ability of business, commitment to an independent judiciary and respect for accepted standards of accounting had observers suggest that the country has able to achieve a growth rate of over 8 per cent per annum, however, support political measures were available, “said Ahluwalia also the convocation address in IIT.

M.S. Ananth, director of IIT Madras, has been awarded 1134 degrees. Among them, 82 Ph.Ds, 98 MS, 411 M Tech, 37 MBA, MSc 83, 80 and Dual Degree 343 B. Tech.

“These accounts cover a wide range of disciplines and specialties offered by the ten engineering departments, three divisions, the division of management studies and the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Humanities”.

The Chairman, Board of Governors, AE Muthunayagam said the creation of technology park would be a reality, with the government allotting areas related to the IIT.

Among the winners was Arvind Thiagarajan, receive, the President of India and the price by the highest score among CGPA-tech students and pupils in two ways.

The governor, the prize went to Mahesh Krishnamurthi (B. Tech). Karthik Srivatsa (B. M. technology and dual-Tech Degree), Dr. bags Shankar Dayal Sharma, while the price-AVN Ravikanth, the Institute was awarded the Order of Merit.

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.

A qualified engineer seek a better life for farmers. That’s Apoorva Oza, CEO, Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP). And he works now for the last 16 years.

Oza has worked since 1988 in the districts of Surendranagar, Narmada, Junagadh and Kachchh. He believes that farmers should be motivated to work in groups, institutions and cooperatives, it would reduce their burden.

After the mechanical construction, Oza received a Post-Graduate Studies at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA).

“After the course, I had a job to AKRSP. Entschloss I am at work on village development and promotion of the use of modern irrigation systems.

“No institution can develop and grow without the support of many individuals and organization partner,” Oza said. “To help farmers, I am well trained and agriculture experts and engineers in these sectors, so they can guide farmers and assist them with technical know-how. It so happens that, for them, that my burden reduced. I do not believe, as part of my job. It is my interest and thanked him, I appreciate everything.

Oza is of the opinion that the lack of knowledge on modern techniques of irrigation contributes significantly farmers unfortunate economic conditions. “Due to frequent power outages, there is a lack of water approximately 40 per cent. Should we therefore have little time on new techniques that can be useful and make them less dependent on rain.”

One of the techniques that it intends to contribute to the promotion of drip irrigation - an effective, but costly. “Drop by drop compared to other techniques is one of the best ways to solve the problem of water scarcity that the quantity of water to take a less is quite. It is necessary to reach directly Part of the annex, “he says. But this system is relatively little used.

“This is because the structure of this system is quite complicated and, therefore, it is difficult for farmers to understand. Maintenance costs also seems quite high, since only a few engineers like rural areas and to repair machines. ”

Oza is of the opinion that awareness among farmers, a long way to go in promoting drip irrigation. “If a farmer, he is familiar with the system indicates that other, it is accepted within their community.”

Oza now plans to extend its work in these four districts and provides for work in Madhya Pradesh. He also worked in the affected areas, such as earthquakes Kachchh also went by long periods of drought in recent years. In these areas, the organization focused on the construction of structures harvest water entry and agriculture.

He hoped that his efforts will give better results in the fields. As he said: “Our motto is - more crop per drop”.

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.