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Thursday, Mar 24, 2005

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Singapore institute hopes to attract Indian students

FOR INDIAN students looking for higher education opportunities abroad, the obvious destinations have been the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. But the arrival of New Zealand, Ireland, France and even Russia on the scene has increased the choices. The entry of Singapore has only added to the variety.

The Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) has proposed to increase its intake from 8,000 to 15,000, two thirds of which will be made up of international students. MDIS has over 100 Indian students.

This number is expected to go up with the opening of MDIS's UniCampus for international students. MDIS offers three main popular courses in Biomedical Sciences, Mass Communications and MBA courses. For more on MDIS, email rcp@mdis.edu.sgt or call 04452025275.

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UNIVERSITAS 21 Global, a leading online graduate school, has opened its registered office in Bangalore at the Trade Centre on Dickenson Road. The office will allow students and prospective business clients to directly interface with the country representatives of Universitas 21 Global.

This move follows Universitas 21 Global's presence in the country over the past 15 months establishing its online MBA programme as the ideal option for working executives in the country. Two other offices have been set up in New Delhi and Mumbai.

The online MBA programme offered by Universitas 21 Global had found acceptance among the country's top business houses such as Satyam Computer Services and Aditya Birla Group. The Aditya Birla Group recently announced that it enrolled 65 of its executives into the online MBA course offered by the graduate school.

Universitas 21 Global is registered with the Government of India and is a member of the All India Management Association (AIMA). The school had introduced a blended learning programme with the Chennai-based Loyola Institute of Business Management last year.

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CHEVISANCE, THE inter-collegiate computer science festival conducted by the Jyoti Nivas College recently attracted teams from over 15 colleges including BCA, MCA and B.Sc Computer Science departments.

Among the various events on the festival agenda were a debate contest on the topic "Microsoft -- A boon or a bane," competitions in programming, debugging and web page designing, a contest in Mad Ads, an IT quiz conducted by quiz master Jaideep Singh Chowdhary, Dumb Charades and Collage.

At the end of it all, the Manipal Institute of Technology walked away with the overall winners trophy.

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THE OUTGOING students of the Surana College were given a farewell. The former Vice-Chancellor of Karnataka State Open University, Ramegowda, delivered the farewell address. Drawing the students' attention to the learner-centric approach in education, he said a combination of the old gurukula system, formal system and distance education will be key to effective education in the 21st Century.

Prof. Ramegowda urged students to understand the national problems such as poverty, over-population, illiteracy and unemployment that required greater attention. The need of the hour, he said, was to inculcate a value system in education. The farewell function featured a stage show by teachers who combined to dance, mime, monoact and music.

The students returned home impressed.

Rasheed Kappan

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