The Hindu : Management students slug it out

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Thursday, Feb 12, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Management students slug it out

LET THE Sparks Fly", screamed aloud students of Institute of Finance and International Management (IFIM) in the heady heights of their annual management festival, "Smriti Pravaha." Premier business schools across the city battled it out to grab a place for a podium finish.

At the end of it all, some won, and some lost, but the spirit of youthful competition prevailed. From the marketing event, "Blitzkrieg" to the human resource event "Born to Reign," the International Business event "Globe Trotting" to the information technology event "Use your mind" and the finance event, "Beat the Street," the fest found reasons to get peppy, zestful and fun.

Teams from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), Alliance Business Academy, Indian Business Academy, and M.P. Birla Institute of Management were all there to add muscle to the contests. Eventually, somebody had to be better than the rest, and that was the Indian Business Academy team, who beat the Alliance Business Academy. Uttara T.M. bagged the Best Manager's trophy. A rock show competition made sure the fest didn't need curtains to end.

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IF PRINCIPALS and heads of schools are looking out for a direct interaction with international education experts, the time is now. The Cambridge International Education (CIE) has lined up a series of conferences in the country.

The Bangalore chapter will be held on Monday at Windsor Sheraton and Towers, followed by the Cambridge International Teacher Training Workshops on February 19 and 20.

Here is a list of speakers lined up for the conference: Dr. Fred Burke, CIE Director for South Asia and Mauritius; Mr. John Pallister, CIE Principal Examiner for Environmental Management and Carole Bennett, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Education at the University of Cambridge.

The Conference will dwell upon issues such as "Quality Teaching Methods and Practice", "Cambridge and International Education", and "Environmental Management".

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BHARATIYA VIDYA Bhavan's H.B. College of Communication and Management, and the HR Development and Training Department of Spastics Society of Karnataka have jointly launched a post-graduate diploma in Comprehensive Management of Children with Learning Disorders, and a distance education certificate course in training teachers on "Management of children with problems in learning in the classrooms".

The two courses are scheduled to start from April 2004.

The postgraduate diploma course is open to graduates with 10 years of teaching experience or postgraduates with five years experience.

The Distance Education Programme is open to graduates with at least three years of teaching experience. "Only those committed to the cause of helping children with learning disabilities need apply for admission," says the college.

Application forms are available with the college principal (22201959) and the Spastics Society of Karnataka (25274633).

Rasheed Kappan

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