Once again students from the School of Business & Economics MBA programme will be taking up the challenge of competing in the 2008 Cranfield Regatta, an international sailing event which is designed to allow MBA students and alumni from all over Europe to meet their counterparts from other business schools. The regatta will take place around Port Solent and Cowes on the last weekend in July and Exeter’s eight-strong crew are working hard in the hope of a high placing for the University. The crew is made up of part-time and full-time MBA students and alumni who have a broad range of sailing skills and experience but are dedicated to doing their best for Exeter. This year’s crew consists of current students Nadia Nikolova, Simon Baird, Nagyb Shah, Stuart Harris, Richard Dawson and alumni Jonny Malcolm, Mark Roberts and Wade Tipton. The race will consist of four head to head races with the various business school teams taking part. The team has is being sponsored by Vospers South West Motor Dealership, Jam Creative, The Birmingham Assay Office and House of Marbles.

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HYDERABAD: ICFAI Business School representatives M.V.R. Raja Satish and Rallapalli Raghuram won first prize at the NTPC ‘Electron Quiz’ Southern Regional Final competition held in the city on Monday.

Over 42 teams from various engineering and management colleges across the twin cities took part in the quiz competition and top three teams from the competition would take part in the national finals to be held at New Delhi, said a press release.

On the occasion, NTPC General Manager (Commercial) presented cash awards of Rs. 15,000, Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 6,000 respectively to the top three winners.

Who are the Snow White and Seven Dwarfs of the corporate world? Ever heard of co-opetition? And how does one term mutual funds that will not cover liquor companies?

Not just the competitors, even the audience had a fun time, guessing answers to these questions at the finals of the business quiz, conducted by the IIM-Ahmedabad Alumni Association’s (IIM-AAA), Chennai chapter, here on Sunday.

In the end, when the Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchi, walked away with the IIM-AAA Anchor Cup 2006, it was a well-earned victory, followed by S.S.N School of Management in the second place and Bangalore’s ICFAI Business School in the third. The P.S.G Institute of Management, Coimbatore, stood fourth.

The quiz was being held to sensitise business school students in south India to the latest corporate happenings, said A. Satish Kumar, president, IIM-AAA Chennai chapter. Anchor Health and Beauty Care was the chief sponsor.

The preliminary written test had been conducted in Chennai, Bangalore, Coimbatore and Madurai. The finals consisted of 12 rounds, including an audio-visual round, two oral rounds and a rapid fire round, with quizmaster S. Jagan keeping the momentum going.

The last winner of the trophy was also BIM in 1994 after which the quiz was discontinued till the IIM-AAA decided to re-launch it, Mr. Satish Kumar said.

Handing over the cup to the winning team, N. Murali, Joint Managing Director, The Hindu , said such quiz contests should be made part of the college curriculum as they were not just clean fun but also of educational value.

One day, a seminar on “environmental management” was organized by the Department of Environmental Science, JJ College of Arts and Science in Pudukottai recently.

V. Kanagasabai, Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Annamalai University, spoke on “The elimination of solid waste,” recalled the various methods used by foreign countries, and in our country as regards solid waste disposal . In our country, all types of waste - whether biodegradable or non-biodegradable or dangerous - were gathered in the same container.

G. Swaminathan, professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, spoke on “Design and a sewage treatment plant. It focused on purifying water polluted by various means such as microbial attached to bed, a bed described in detail.

Dr. K. Jayaprakash, Head, Department of Environmental Science, welcomed the collection.

J.J. College of Arts and Science in Pudukottai organized a camp blood on their field recently. A total of 50 students, while blood donations camp, which was headed by Dr. Edwin, blood bank-Charge, Government Hospital, Pudukottai, and his team.

The school had organised a similar camp in the last month, 157 students in blood donation. The camp was conducted by a team of doctors headed by Dr. V. Veluchamy - blood bank-Charge, the Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai, a press release from the university said.

The Indian company of Education Technology (CIST) Chapter Mookambigai College of Engineering in Keeranur celebrated the Day of Teachers recently.

The direction of the College A. Subramanian memories achievements of Dr S. Radhakrishnan, when he is Chairman of Rajya Sabha.

R. Shanmugavadivelu said teachers should be awarded to students running on the latest information.

Iste The President, Professor R. Veeraghavan welcomed the collection.

A blood donation camp was organized by the Rotary Club of Tiruchi medium and Rotaract Club of Thai Than Hans Roever Peramablur College, in the university premises on Wednesday. More than 100 students donated blood.

Formation “first aid” was students.R gives. Balasubramanian St. John’s Ambulance, Tiruchi, gave useful advice for students on immediate measures to be taken to the wounded.

The payer, V. Ganesan, opened the camp.

A series of special conferences on various topics organized by the Department of Management Studies at the Thai Than Hans Roever College, Perambalur, five days, had enough exposure of students vis-à-vis several issues such as mental health and management, communications and personality development, ‘ `human resources accounting and auditing in this scenario” and “Legal aspects of consumerism and management combine.” Rajendran, Professor, Victor R. Lazar, NPS Suri and Sridhar, both Senior Manager, Madras Cements, P. Vaidyanathan, a lawyer, conferences provided.

Under the aegis of the Department of Environmental Sciences and unity NSS Girls Government Arts College, Ariyalur, “Awareness Day ozone layer was observed on 22 September. The originator, Mr. Sankararaman, invited students to put in place appropriate awareness of the masses of abuse effects of the deterioration of the ozone layer.

MUMBAI: Rohit and Nikhil from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune, won the National Finals of `Tata Crucible-The Campus Quiz 2006′ held here last Monday.

The first runner-up was the team from IMT Ghaziabad, and the second runners-up position witnessed a tie between the teams from the KJ Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai, and College of Engineering Guindy (COE), Chennai.

The theme of the Tata Crucible-The Campus Quiz 2007 was `Speed of Thought-Clash of the fastest minds’. `Pyramid Quizzing’ structure, introduced for the first time in Indian quizzing history, added an in-depth meaning to the 2007 edition of the quiz.