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I am a Plus-Two student (science group) interested in science communication. What are the career prospects?
M.S. Science Communication is offered by the National Council of Science Museums, an autonomous scientific and research organisation in Kolkata under the Ministry of Culture. It offers a two-year postgraduate programme.
Essential qualification for the course is you should be an engineering or technology graduate in mechanical/ information technology/ computer/ telecommunication/ instrumentation/ chemical/ production/ metallurgy or possess I class M.Sc. degree in physics / chemistry / bioscience/ environmental sciences.
This course is for people who want to train as professional science communicators, but are unsure which employment sector might suit them best. Academic and practical components provide a broad overview of the professional science communication landscape.
The course introduces some of the contemporary debates surrounding science and its communication. It examines the recent work in the humanities and social sciences that questions assumptions about both science and communication.
The course module is divided into two parts. The first part introduces debates about the nature of science, its relation to other disciplines and the broader culture.
It considers key ideas from the philosophy and sociology of science centred on the concepts of intervention, representation and, most recently, of science as a social construction.
The second half further develops ideas about social constructivism by looking at how media texts are constructed.
Drawing on work in cultural and media studies and focussing on key ideas such as signification, ideology, myth, and metaphor, it looks at how texts and images in the mass media generate meaning and how different audiences read texts.
Career opportunities after the course include print journalism, new media work, broadcast television or radio production and presentation, public affairs and public relations, museums/galleries and festivals, science policy work, academic research and development, and teaching.
I am studying computer science engineering (pre-final year). I would like to know about a career in financial engineering.
Computational finance or financial engineering is a cross-disciplinary field which relies on mathematical finance, numerical methods and computer simulations to make trading, hedging and investment decisions, as well as facilitating the risk management of those decisions.
In other words, it involves financial theory, methods of engineering, tools of mathematics and the practice of programming.
Financial engineering empowers participants with the ability to implement solutions, in areas of high technology finance, such as risk management, product structuring, quantitative asset management, quantitative trading, quantitative research and financial information technology. It uses tools from finance, applied mathematics, computer science, statistics and economic theory.
Investment banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, corporate risk managers and regulatory agencies apply the methods of financial engineering to such problems as derivative securities valuation, risk management, strategic planning and dynamic investment strategies.
As the pace of financial innovation increases, the need for highly qualified people with specific training in financial engineering intensifies. Areas where financial engineering techniques are employed include:
Investment banking, risk management software, corporate strategic planning, securities trading and financial risk management, derivatives trading and risk management and investment management. A postgraduate programme in financial engineering is offered by Institute of Financial Management and Research, Chennai.
I am doing my pre-final year BBA and I would like to know about post graduation in retail management and career prospects ?
A retail management course is about departmental store retailing and shopping mall retailing business. There is a huge demand for retail management professionals for processing merchandise shipments, achieving store sales and profitability, communication with the clients to gain their satisfaction, administration of stores, etc.
With the spurt of shopping malls and departmental stores, huge employment opportunities are opening up in India and abroad. A growth rate of 30 - 40 per cent is estimated in India in the retail sector with the advent of more than 200 shopping malls.
The curriculum on retail management provides detailed information on supply chain management, marketing information, finance management, accounting in retail, electronic retailing merchandise management, marketing and business communication, sales promotion with public relation, inventory management, customer relationship, business ethics, retail brand management, business communication, psychology of retail shoppers, management and organisational behaviour, quantitative methods in retailing. Retail management offers a wide range of employment opportunities in the books and publishing industry, music stores, multiplexes, shopping malls, garment industry and even in the processed foods industry.
The following institutes offer courses in retail management: Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai; K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai; RPG Institute of Retail Management; SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, and Birla Institute of Management Technology, New Delhi.
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JAYAPRAKASH GANDHI
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