Post graduate course in media studies at Calcutta University

Registration are open at Calcutta University for the course in media studies (film & television). Interested and eligible candidates can apply for the diploma course commencing in 2014.

About the institute-

The Institute of Mass Communication Film and Television Studies, a non-profit society, is registered under the Societies Act, XXVI of 1961, and government of West Bengal in the year 2002. The institute provides a wide range of courses, which includes mass communication, journalism, public relations, advertising, audio-visual communication; film studies and other allied subjects related to media studies. 

Eligibility Criteria:

• Applicants must hold a graduation degree in any discipline (pass/honours/vocational etc) from a recognised university.
• Those who have appeared for final examination and awaiting results are also eligible to apply.
• There is a reservation for SC/ST and physically handicapped candidates as per rules and university norms.

Tuition Fees: Rs 12000

Selection process:

• Stage 1 is a written test. Students would be short-listed on the basis of a written test and an interview later on.
• Question for the written test are set in English and are objective in nature.
• Emphasis is put on general knowledge, current affairs, proficiency in language, reasoning, audiovisual media etc.

 

How to apply: Application forms are to be submitted at the office of Media Studies: Film Television, Hardinge Building (4th floor) College Street Campus, Kolkata -700073 by August17, 2012. 

Important dates:

• Last date for the submission of application form is September 09, 2014
• written test would be held on September 12, 2014.

IISc in top 500 Chinese world ranking

According to a recent ranking by Chinese organisation, The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is the only Indian institute to hold a place amongst the top 500 global educational institutes. The ranking is largely dominated by the American ranking.

IISc, ranked as the top Indian university, was placed in the category of 151-200 in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics category, similar to the previous year’s rankings.

Other Rankings of IISc-

Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science, conceived as a ‘Research Institute’ by Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, in the final years of the 19th century, has been placed in the world rank category of 301-400 by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

In the subject-wise academic ranking of Computer Science, Indian Statistical Institute features along with IISc in 101-150 category, similar to King’s College, London.

In the academic ranking of world universities for Chemistry, the premier institute has been placed in the category of 51-75 global ranking, similar to the US-based Johns Hopkins University and Carnegie Mellon University.

ARWU ranking-

ARWU ranks universities on the basis of several indicators of academic and research performance, including alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals.

Harvard University followed by Stanford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are ranked at first, second and third positions respectively.

Last 5 days for registration of MAT 2014

AIMA-MAT 2014 will be conducted from September 7 and 13. The last date for registration is 23^rd August 2014 hence there are only 5 days left.

MAT is conducted 4 times in a year. The exam is conducted for admissions to various MBA and management courses across the nation and abroad. MAT is held four times in a year i.e. during February, May, September and December. The exam measures a person’s general aptitude through an objective type multiple choice question paper.

 

Eligibility:

The candidates are required to possess a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognised university.

The candidates who are in the final year of their graduation can also apply.

 

Application Process-

The candidates can obtain the MAT bulletin/CD by paying an amount of Rs 1,200. They can be collected from any of the branches Bank of Baroda, Axis Bank, listed Study Centres of AIMA OR from AIMA, New Delhi.

Also, the candidates can collect the application form by sending the Demand Draft of Rs 1200 to be drawn in favour of ‘All India Management Association’ payable at New Delhi.

The duly filled application forms are to be sent to ” The Manager-CMS (MAT-Online), All India Management Association, Management House, 14 Institutional Area, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003″.

Candidates can also register online at the below mentioned link

http://apps.aima.in/matsept14

 

The paper based test will be conducted on September 7 and computer based paper will be conducted on September 13.

Admissions to various MBA and management courses are also possible through CAT score.

Registrations are on its way. Candidates can apply by September 30.

IIMs will get national importance status

As per news, The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will soon be granted the status of institute of national importance.

Moreover, a bill in this regard will be introduced, according to a written communication from Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani to the Lok Sabha.

The first draft of this bill has been drawn on the basis of the inputs of the stakeholders. The HRD Minister says that as soon as the bill is approved by the Union Minister, the bill will be introduced.

The Union Budget 2014, presented by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on July 10, 2014, has allocations for six new IIMs to be established in Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Punjab and Odisha. IIM, Indore has asked candidates aspiring to appear for the Common Admission Test 2014 (CAT 2014) to apply for 19 IIMs that includes the six new IIMs, which are expected to be set up in the aforementioned states.

Not only IIMs, four Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) may also attain the status of institution of national importance with the power to grant degrees, as per a bill which has been passed in the Lok Sabha. The four IIITs mentioned in the bill are IIIT Allahabad, IIIT Design & Manufacturing Jabalpur, IIIT Gwalior and IIIT Design & Manufacturing Kancheepuram.

DSSB opens 2000 position for teachers

It has come to news that Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB). The board will hire and immediately fill these 2000 of the 17,000 vacancies of teachers in the Delhi government.

Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung has been monitoring the issue since the previous year and wants to speed up the process and make the recruitment as early as possible. Further, Jung added that there are a lot of vacancies of nurses, ward boys and clerks that need to be filled.

According to Jung, prior to the recruitment, the focus was on cleaning up the government schools and improving the environment therein.

The DSSB had earlier also invited applications for filling up 4,494 teaching and non-teaching positions.

 

Vacancies: 4494

TGT (Computer Science): 2,026 vacancies

Special Educator: 1,692 vacancies

Special Education Teacher: 670 vacancies

Assistant Teacher: 88 vacancies

LDC: 14 vacancies

Stenographer: 4 vacancies

All the aspirants are requested to read the list of particulars and fill the forms by 27^th August 2014

 

About DSSB-

On the 50th Anniversary year of the Indian Independence, the government of National Capital Territory of Delhi has instituted the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board. The major responsibilities of DSSB is recruiting capable, intelligent, and highly skilled candidates by conducting written tests, skill tests, professional tests, IQ tests and interviews.

Mathematician from India receive Nobel Prize

On the 68^th Independence Day of India, two mathematicians of Indian origin bring another reason for India to feel proud by winning Nobel Prize of mathematician.

As per PTI, Mathematicians of Indian-and Iranian-origin are among the four winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, known as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics”

Manjul Bhargava won the Fields Medal while Subhash Khot won the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, awarded by the International Mathematical Union (IMU), at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 held in Seoul.

Bhargava, a professor of mathematics at Princeton University, was among the four winners who have been awarded the Fields Medal, given out every four years. Iranian-born mathematician and Stanford University professor Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the Fields Medal this year.He was awarded the Fields Medal for “developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves.”

Bhargava’s work is “based both on a deep understanding of the representations of arithmetic groups and a unique blend of algebraic and analytic expertise.”

With his work leading to breakthroughs in algorithmic design and approximation hardness and to new exciting interactions between computational complexity, analysis and geometry, Khot was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize for his “prescient definition of the ‘Unique Games’ problem, and leading the effort to understand its complexity and its pivotal role in the study of efficient approximation of optimisation problems.

Khot is a professor in the Computer Science Department at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He has a PhD from Princeton.

Born in 1974 in Canada, Bhargava grew up in the US and also spent much time in India. He received his PhD in 2001 from Princeton University and became a professor there in 2003.

Bhargava’s honours include the Merten Hasse Prize of the Mathematical Association of America (2003), the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2005), the Cole Prize in Number Theory of the American Mathematical Society (2008) and the Infosys Prize (2012).He was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013. The Fields Medals were started in 1936 and the Nevanlinna Prize in 1982.

 

The Fields Medal is awarded on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians to recognise outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement.

The candidates in fray for the medal must be below the age of 40.

Google and Microsoft offered package of more than crore to non-IIT engineering students

 

 This year Google conducted its placement at BITS Pilani and offered them a salary of Rs 1.44 crore ($2,35,000). On the other hand, Microsoft is offering Rs 79.51 lakh for jobs at its Redmond headquarters. Epic Systems and Schlumberger were also amongst the top recruiters offering $1,08,300 (Rs 66.4 lakh) offer and $1,05,000 (Rs 64.4 lakh) offer respectively.

Other recruiters were Amazon, eBay, Flipkart, Schlumberger. These recruiters have hiked their packages offered by 25% in comparison to previous year.

The placement team said that there was an increase of 40 per cent in the recruiters and the Goa campus noticed an increase of 100 per cent.

Last year, Google and Microsoft had offered top salaries of Rs 68.34 lakh and Rs 60 lakh, respectively. Goldman Sachs paid Rs 13 lakh this year for roles in the technological division compared with Rs 11 lakh last year as per sources.

Moreover, Three students of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad, and NIT-Calicut have bagged jobs at Rs 25 lakh package from Amazon. Flipkart is offering Rs 15 lakh plus benefits across campuses. Myntra is also offering a similar kind of offer to the deserving candidates.

Start-ups like Code-Nation is offering Rs 24 lakh across campuses, significantly more than Flipkart. Code-Nation is offering to NIT-Warangal, VIT-University students and will be seen at NITK-Surathkal in the next few days.

Update on Teacher Eligibility Test

The TET, conducted by University Grants Commission for college teachers, is aimed at improving the selection procedure.

As per news, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir join the league of five northern states who are not going to conduct test for appointing teachers. Further Goa is also in the list who will not hold Teachers Eligibility Test (TEST) for appointment of teachers in school.

Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) recently reported that Delhi, West Bengal and Goa are the only three states yet to form school management committees (SMC) for primary schools.

CABE also found that in compliance with the Right of Child to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, (RTE), only 65 per cent of primary schools in Goa have a pupil to teacher. Due to reason, Goa has not held the mandatory TET as yet. The state feels it is not feasible to conduct examination for 100 teachers at a time in Goa.

Even though, the state has this belief, the state has not been able to come at an alternative to this. It is against the RTE who prohibits the appointment of teachers without them clearing a state held test

IIM Calcutta’s pre-placement

Pre-placement sessions have been started at IIM Calcutta for its session of 2014 and it has successfully witnessed a 34 per cent increase in its placements.

Out of the total strength of 454 in the campus, 78 students have received offers out of which 20 are PPI (Pre Placement Interviews)

Maximum number of offers were from Management consulting. The top four consulting firms: Mckinsey, BCG, Bain and A T Kearney in total gave 24 offers out of 31 candidates. Under the domain of management consultancy McKinsey gave the maximum number of offers i.e 8 followed by The Boston Consulting group gave 7. A.T.Kearney gave offers to students who already working as interns with them. Offers were also from Tata Administrative Services (TAS) and Aditya Birla Group.

Philips gave 3 PPOs and 2 PPIs which is the highest across all B-schools.

Pepsi gave out 3 offers across its Sales & Marketing and Finance divisions, which is a 100 per cent conversion rate.

Alshaya, a top retail franchise operator in the Middle East, gave 8 PPOs. Other companies that made offers include Bosch, Nestle, Shell, Vodafone and iNautix.

Offers from investment banking are also expected in the coming months. Deutsche Bank emerged to be the first bank to roll out pre-placement offer. On the other hand, pre-placement interview offers came from the likes of Mondelez, KPMG, L’oreal, Medtronics and HCL. “Companies seem to be realising the importance of summer internship programme and are hiring more through the PPO route.

Last year students of IIM Calcutta had received 112 PPOs and this year the college is expecting an increase in the number. Looking to the large number of placements, students of IIM Calcutta wins the faith of everyone across the industry.

Personal finance education initiative for college students

The need for Personal finance training to college students brought Principal Mutual Funds and Money-Wizards to roll-out personal financial education initiative christened Youth Money Olympiad (YMO).  

YMO will reach out to over 100 colleges across all state capitals. The entry is by invitation only and top institutions are being invited for this educational rollout.

Personal finance is a life skill and the subject will be taught as it is not covered in formal education.

YMO will be administered as a personal finance assessment test in the multiple choice question format among students. The quiz will help students evaluate their personal finance quotient and simultaneously benchmark their financial IQ against their peer group. The objective is to create greater awareness amongst the youth of India about savings and investments and prepare them for the rest of their working lives.

As per Rajan Ghotgalkar, managing director, Pnb Asset Management Company and country head -India, Principal International Inc, They are happy to partner with Money-Wizards for this unique but very important initiative. YMO underscores Principal’s commitment towards investor awareness and education and we are confident that this initiative will benefit more students in the coming years.

The Youth Money Olympiad is India’s largest and first financial literacy initiative targeted at college students. Over the next few years, we expect the YMO to be available to colleges across tier II and tier III towns and cities- Venkatesh Varadachari, co-founder and director, Money Wizards.