Education News – January 2016

STUDY INDIA
* Study India is a first-of-its-kind all-inclusive web and app-based solutions provider to college-going students.
* It provides a cloud based college education solutions platform on the web and app platforms, helps enable students to learn, interact and collaborate more effectively as a student community.
* It provides students with notes, question papers etc. sharing platforms between the student community, a related forum section to help students clear their doubts, a cross college blog, a virtual classroom to help students learn better and to help professors teach better, a virtual study desk for students, a videos section for students to visually learn better and an events experience that will help keep students up to date about the various events happening across colleges.
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YOUTUBE SPACE MUMBAI AT WHISTLING WOODS INTERNATIONAL OPENS FOR INDIAN CONTENT CREATORS
* The Space will allow YouTube creators and students at WWI to learn about video production, collaborate with other creators and give them the tools they need to realize their creative goals.
* The facilities are designed to help remove constraints on resources in order to give creators the opportunity to learn, connect, and create.
* Through YouTube Space, creators can access, at no charge, all the latest audiovisual and editing equipment to produce original and innovative digital video content for their own YouTube channels.
* The Indian YouTube creator community is one of the world’s most vibrant, and in the past year alone, the amount of content uploaded to YouTube in India has grown by 90%, while watch time in India has grown 80% year on year.

CIMA TIES UP WITH SEACOM SKILLS UNIVERSITY TO OFFER GLOBAL MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING QUALIFICATION
* Chartered Institute of Management Accountants is the world’s largest professional body of management accountants with operation in 179 countries.
* CIMA has announced a tie up with Seacom Skills University located in West Bengal, to integrate the CIMA curriculum and course along with the various management courses offered by Seacom Skills University.
* Debasish Biswas, Country Head, CIMA India, said, ”Globally, there is a growing demand of professional skills that management accountants bring to organizations with the unique balance of accounting and business knowledge they have. We are happy to offer the CIMA qualification to students of Seacom Skills University to help them develop analytical, application oriented, decision making skills, rather than just theoretical knowledge of business and finance.

IIM TRICHY’S PGPM PROGRAMME WELCOMED BY CFA INSTITUTE INTO THE UNIVERSITY RECOGNITION PROGRAMME
* Indian Institute of Management Trichy has become the first IIM to be welcomed into the CFA Institute University Recognition Programme.
* The Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) offered by Indian Institute of Management
Tiruchirappalli has been acknowledged as incorporating academic courses (at least 70 percent) as per the CFA Programme Candidate Body of Knowledge and placing emphasis on the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice within the programme.
* Entry into the CFA Institute University Recognition Programme signals potential students, employers and all stakeholders, that the IIM Trichy PGPM curriculum is in sync with professional practice globally.
* As a result of this recognition, in each fiscal year, IIM Tiruchirappalli is entitled to award scholarships to a fixed number of PGPM students to take up the CFA Programme.

EDX’S NEW COURSE ON ‘LEADERSHIP FOR ENGINEERS’
* Many of today’s global challenges require tech-driven solutions — climate change, the growth of the world population, cyber security, the increasing demand for scarce resources, digitalization, and the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
* edX’s new course on ‘Leadership for Engineers’ will prepare learners on how to effectively lead in a technology-driven world, define their personal leadership journey, and make their career choices.
* The course is designed specifically for individuals who are currently enrolled in an engineering program or who are in possession of an engineering degree. However, people with working experience or a strong interest in the topic can also take up the course.
* Taught by DelftX, ‘Leadership for Engineers’ kicks off on January 05, 2016. It is a 5-week course with an effort of just 2-4 hours per week.
* You can visit the following link to enroll for this course: https://www.edx.org/course/leadership-engineers-delftx-lfe101x#!

ADELAIDE INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS
* The University of Adelaide offers a scholarship program for commencing international students undertaking undergraduate study.
* Up to 40 scholarships are available each year for study in any discipline except Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS), Bachelor of Oral Health and Bachelor of Science (Veterinary Bioscience)
* The selection process for the Adelaide International Undergraduate Scholarships is competitive, with academic achievement forming the main basis for scholarship selection. As a general guide, the University of Adelaide will consider applicants who have achieved an academic level which is the equivalent of a GPA of 6/7 (85%) for a scholarship.
* As the aim of the scholarship program is to attract excellent applicants from a wide range of countries, factors such as country of citizenship and program of study may also be taken into consideration in some cases in the scholarship selection process.
* Check their website https://international.adelaide.edu.au/choosing/scholarships/aius/for further details.

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