The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : 100 teachers attend orientation programme

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Thursday, Aug 17, 2006

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

100 teachers attend orientation programme

MAHARANI LAKSHMI Ammanni College for Women and Bangalore University Teacher's Council of Commerce and Management, along with the university's Faculty of Commerce and Management conducted a one-day workshop on "Skill development and curriculum orientation of 5th semester BBM Course" last week.

Over 100 teachers from various colleges attended and participated in the workshop. College chairman Kumar Mahadevan presided over the programme.

Motorola scholar

INDIAN INSTITUTE of Science (IISc.) director P. Balaram recently gave away the Motorola Scholar Award 2005-06 to three winning teams from K.K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and Research, Nasik; Global Institute of Technology, Jaipur; and Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering Pennalur, Sriperumbudur.

The programme, sponsored by the Motorola Foundation, was conceived to select scholars from engineering colleges based on a project in the areas of digital communications suitable for rural areas and innovative applications particularly to problems in rural areas.

Launched in August 2005, the prgoramme received 200 proposals. The proposals were then reviewed and assessed by 25 experts and 16 proposals were short listed for seed funding.

Bookmark 2006

BOOKMARK 2006, the annual book festival of the Christ College Department of Media Studies, was held on the college campus here last week. On the occasion, film critic M.K. Raghavendra spoke about the difference between the knowledge dissemination through sources such as books and films. The first year students of Communicative English organise the festival every year.

There were 17 stalls this year, with books related to fields such as Physical Education, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Fiction, Politics, Wildlife, and Cookery.

VTU extension counter

The Belgaum-based Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has set up an Extension Centre for Post Graduate Studies at the International Institute of Productivity Science and Management (IIPSM) here. Through this centre, VTU will conduct a Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme.

The VTU Extension Centre will have up to 60 students in the MBA course, and will facilitate students based in and around Bangalore to pursue their postgraduate management studies.

RASHEED KAPPAN

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