Campus Jottings
Top honour for MBA students
TWO OSMANIA University MBA students -- D. Praveen Kumar Reddy and Vinay Pande -- pursuing third semester at the Department of Business Management, University of Commerce and Business Management, have won the `Best Management Team Award' and a cash prize of Rs. 20,000 at the National-level inter-collegiate festival, `Operacy - 2004' held at the Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies. The award came their way for their excellent performance in paper writing, paper presentation, case presentation and management games.
Inter-collegiate festival
An Inter-collegiate literary and cultural competition will be conducted by the Department of Students Affairs, Osmania University, between November 22 and 25 at Tagore Auditorium inside the campus.
The events are: dance - folk, tribal and classical; music - classical, vocal solo, classical instrumental solo & Indian classical; music - light vocal, western vocal, group songs - Indian and western; fine arts - painting, collage, clay modelling, poster making and rangoli; literary - elocution (English); Theatre Arts - One Act play, skit, mime and mono action.
All the colleges under the jurisdiction of Osmania University were informed of the festival and the list of participants have to be sent to the office of the Dean, Student Affairs, OU, on or before November 18. Participating students have to bring in their college identity cards and a permission letter from their respective colleges.
Employable education
ACADEMICS SHOULD debate on promoting `employable education' in the higher education system in the light of emergence of popular foreign universities, according to F.D. Vakil, former Professor of Political Science at the Osmania University.
He was talking on `Internationalisation of higher education and its consequences' at B.R. Ambedkar Open University on November 11.
Senior academicians of the varsity, including M. Ramachandraiah, Director (Academic), and others were present.
Parichay a hit
INDIA HAS become the destination for information technology, software development and managerial efficiency. Managing knowledge workers and challenges are the big tasks for the future managers, said the Dean of the Indian School of Business, M. Ram Mohan Rao, at `Parichay 2004', the freshers day for MBA and MCA students of the Avanthi PG College on November 10.
Capability to work in different platforms, managing by persuasion and attributes of leadership were some of the imperatives needed for new managers, he added. Efforts were on way to link up the college with the industry, laboratories and reputed institutions for giving a more practical thrust to the professional courses, said K.R.K. Sharma, Principal, of the college.
A first year MBA student, Raju, presented a purse of Rs. 3,500 in cash as donation to Care Foundation for children's operations.
Seminar on quality control
THE BHAVAN'S Vivekananda College of Science, Humanities and Commerce of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Sainikpuri, held a one-day seminar on `Competitive advantages through quality control' on November 11. Senior managers from reputed firms like Satyam Computers, Dr. Reddy's Labs, Speck Systems and Nisiet took part.
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