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MES College wins trophy at `Yuvajanotsava'

STUDENTS of M.E.S. College walked away with the overall trophy at the inter-collegiate cultural festival, "Yuvajanotsava", organised recently by the Bangalore University. The team from Kristu Jayanthi College emerged runners-up.

The winners enjoyed their time on the stage. But a guest speaker had a telling remark on the poor turnout of students. The main reason for shortage of participants, he rued, was the semester system. This system, he said, kept the students busy with examination preparations. His solution: Ban the semester system.

The festival kept the participants, whatever their number, busy with contests such as rangoli, clay modelling, spot painting, classical music, classical instrumental, folk dance, group singing, folk instrumental, cartooning, poster-making and a debate on "protest in the name of bandh is the correct way or the incorrect way."

Only about 30 colleges from the city, Tumkur and Kolar took part in the festival.

Campus recruitment

The Christ College Institute of Management (CCIM) is gearing up for its "Campus Recruitment 2007" where the Class of 2007 will look for suitable positions in organizations in the areas of Marketing, Finance and Human Resources. The placements will commence in January next year.

Seminar

St. Joseph's College of Business Administration recently organised a seminar on "Nuances of 21st Century Globalisation," an event that featured presentations by Don Betz, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, U.S.; S.N. Rao, Globalisation Consultant, University of Wisconsin; V.K. Raghuveer, Head, Broadband Services, Infosys Technologies; and Capt. Girish Surendran, HR Head, Tata Consultancy Services.

Dr. Betz, in his paper on "The challenge of change, its pace and breadth", highlighted a central phenomenon — the challenge of changing its pace and breadth. He said globalisation made for a case on global education in all levels in all counties.

In his paper on "Globalisation - a new era in higher education," Dr. Rao dealt on three issues — accreditation, intellectual property and maintaining the university as communities. He described the elements in liberal model of education making education more cost effective by commodifying the product, testing performance by standardising the expenses and testing of results. The challenges of globalization to be addressed by university are affordability and accessibility and appropriateness of curriculum

Management course

APESMA Management Education, Australia's largest independent provider of business and management education, has launched its management programmes through its subsidiary, Chifley Business School.

Chifley's postgraduate programmes are designed to equip students with the management capabilities they need to move to next level in their careers. Delivered through distance education, the programmes are industry-relevant, current and structured to foster continuous learning within the workplace.

The business school's certificate and diploma programmes in frontline management are aimed at developing the practical management skills that industry demands.

The six-month diploma in business programme is conducted via the distance-learning mode with 100 hours of face-to-face sessions with leading industry experts.

Students doing this diploma will get articulation into the full-time MBA offered by APESMA and LaTrobe University.

RASHEED KAPPAN

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