University of Sheffield
Computer Science Excellence Scholarship
The University of Sheffield, the U.Okay., is providing the Computer Science Excellence Scholarship 2024.
Value: £2,000
Eligibility: Candidates should attain A stage grades of A*A*A (or above), or equal, together with an A* in Maths; should make the University of Sheffield their first (agency) alternative within the UCAS software course of for 2024 entry; should apply to check a full-time undergraduate programme within the Department of Computer Science; should be classed as an abroad charge pupil for tuition charge functions; should be taking all prerequisite topics for his or her chosen diploma.
For particulars, go to https://bitly.ws/393Ls.
Environmental Science BSc
The college has opened admissions for the Environmental Science BSc course.
Commences: September 2024
Duration: Three years
Eligibility: Applicants ought to have scored 75% at school 12 (India – CBSE, CISCE and Maharashtra State Board), 70% at school 12 (India – West Bengal Board), and 80% at school 12 (India – Other state boards). IELTS grade of 6.5 with a minimal of 6.0 in every element, or an alternate acceptable English language qualification.
Fee: Overseas college students annual charge is £25,540
Scholarships: The college is providing 75 International Undergraduate Merit Scholarships price £10,000 per 12 months (topic to a 60% common) and can be found for brand new worldwide college students who meet the eligibility standards.
For particulars, go to contact geography@sheffield.ac.uk
International Green Warrior Olympiad
CREST Olympiads launched the International Green Warrior Olympiad (IGWO). It offers college students the prospect to grow to be captivated with environmental care, and is according to the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN.
Eligibility: Students upto class 12 can take part individually or by means of the varsity
Mode and period: Online, one hour
When: January 17 to 19
Fees: Individual registration charges is Rs. 225, and thru colleges, freed from value, for college students finding out and residing in India. For International college students, the charge is $ 15.
For particulars on syllabus and to register, go to https://www.crestolympiads.com/green-olympiad-gwo.
Those fascinated about volunteering for a wide range of olympiad actions, go to https://forms.gle/4AHfcR3spLW7A1ru9.
Azim Premji University public lecture sequence
Arthur Eisenkraft, Professor of Physics and Director, Centre of Science and Math in Context, University of Massachusetts Boston, will function within the Azim Premji University public lecture sequence, on the Bangalore International Centre, 4.30 p.m. to six p.m., on January 13. He will converse on The Nature of Motion – A Lazy (OR Very Efficient) Universe.
PhD DRIVE at BITS Pilani’s SIRE
BITS Pilani just lately launched the School of Interdisciplinary Research and Entrepreneurship (SIRE), a web based house to advance analysis and innovation. Its major exercise will likely be to supply numerous interdisciplinary PhD programme, together with the PhD DRIVE. Thirty Ph.D. students will likely be recruited by March 2024 beneath the PhD DRIVE scheme. The deadline to use is February 15. For particulars, go to, https://sire.bits-pilani.ac.in/.
PGDM programmes
Jaipuria Institute of Management invitations functions for its PGDM programmes throughout its Lucknow, Noida, Jaipur, and Indore campuses.
Duration: Two-year, full-time
Application charge: Rs.1000/-
Application: Online
Eligibility: Bachelor’s diploma from a recognised Indian college, with a minimal of fifty% marks or equal CGPA; final-year commencement college students can apply, with proof of completion required by October 1, 2024; legitimate aptitude check scores of CAT 2023/CMAT/XAT/MAT/GMAT.
Deadline: March 31
Apply at https://apply.jaipuria.ac.in/
Specialised Nursing Batches
Physics Wallah just lately launched three specialised Nursing batches to —Aarogyam, Ayushman, and Nightingale. Each batch caters to particular examination preparations and profession targets, together with AIIMS NORCET, RRB Staff Nurse Exam, ESIC Staff Nurse, State Level and CHO Exams. The programs cowl numerous Nursing topics, examination methods, and future profession prospects.
Fees: Aarogyam – Free; Ayushman – Rs. 1999; Nightingale – Rs. 2,499/
To register and for particulars, go to and https://bitly.ws/39C3U.
Dronacharya Test-360 Degree Diagnostic Scholarship Exam
Eligibility: Students of lessons 5 to 11.
Exam dates: January 28 and February 4
Deadline: January 26 (for the January 28th examination), and February 2 (for the February 4 examination).
Register on-line at offline by visiting a close-by FIITJEE centre.
Pro Piercing Course
Aliens Tattoo Art School will begin its five-day Pro Piercing Course in Mumbai.
When: January 22 and February 19
Venue: Aliens Tattoo Art School
Eligibility: Anyone over the age of 18 years
Fee: ₹ 19,500 for 5 days
To register, go to https://www.alienstattooschool.com/pro-piercing-course
Advanced Tattoo Course – Black n’ Grey Realism and Portrait
Aliens Tattoo Art School will begin its 45-day Advanced Tattoo Course in Mumbai.
Commences: February 5
Venue: Aliens Tattoo Art School
Fee: ₹ 1,50,000
To register, go to https://www.alienstattooschool.com/advanced-tattoo-course
Admissions open for Symbiosis MBA
Admissions are actually open for the 2024 MBA programmes in Marketing and BFSI at Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences (SUAS) Indore.
Eligibility: Candidates should clear SUAS’s Skill CAT or possess a CAT/SNAP/MAT/XAT scorecard (minimal 50 percentile).
Skill CAT date: February 10 and March 9
To register, go to e mail helpdesk@skill-cat.ac.in, or name 9285333010, 9285333012 , 9285333023.
NIIT University (NU) declares early admissions for 2024
Admissions are actually open to UG programmes corresponding to BTech in Cyber Security, and Integrated Masters in Business. Students also can go for BTech in Computer Science and Engineering, BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, BTech in Biotechnology, BTech in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, three-year BBA and four-year built-in Master’s in Business Administration (iMBA) programmes after class 12. Admission will likely be decided by college students’ educational efficiency at school 10 or their ends in specified national-level entrance exams. Applicants with JEE scores are exempted from the NU Aptitude Test. For particulars, go to https://niituniversity.in/admissions.
Events
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham organised the Amrita Research and Innovation Symposium for Excellence; 24 of its researchers who have been acknowledged as among the many prime two p.c scientists globally, have been honoured.
The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, supported by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (IC Section), Government of India, just lately organised a two-day worldwide convention on Infusing Technology within the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Sector. It was geared toward fostering innovation and technological development within the MSME area. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: India Report 2022-23, offering insights into the nation’s entrepreneurial panorama, was launched.
At a felicitation ceremony held to commemorate the accomplishments of its inaugural January 2021 batch, JAIN Online, in partnership with CertOnce, just lately unveiled Blockchain Secured Degrees.
The Manipal Institute of Technology just lately hosted a workshop on Standardisation Ecosystem, in collaboration with the Bureau of Indian Standards.
Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, just lately performed a college outreach programme in Kanpur, the place practically 150 individuals participated together with lecturers, instructional specialists, principals and house owners of teaching institutes. They emphasised the necessity for skill-integrated training in India in accordance with the rules of NEP 2020.
Woxsen University, Hyderabad, just lately held a global conclave specializing in ‘India-EU as Strategic Partners for the Future of Higher Education’. Its major goal was to ascertain a platform to foster constructive dialogue amongst key stakeholders from the realms of diplomacy, increased training, and enterprise.
First-semester MBA college students from the CMR Institute of Technology just lately performed a college outreach programme on the Government School in Kuguru village. The initiative concerned creating informative charts protecting topics from the Arts, Science, and Commerce streams, which included matters associated to Uthe PSC exams, CET for Engineering and Medicine, and details about the Armed Forces. Students have been additionally taught about ‘Good contact and Bad contact’.
Rewards and laurels
Class 10 college students of Shiv Nadar School Gurugram, Faridabad, and Noida showcased technical prototypes fixing real-life considerations at Colloquium 2023. The first prize went to Aaditya Seth, Samaira Taneja, Vanij Gupta, Armaan Srivatsan, and Sehraj Kapoor (Team Communica) from Gurugram.
The Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru, concluded its MAHE B’LRU interschool quiz. Hansel Riju Mathew and Varun Goyal from Christ Academy, Bengaluru got here first.
The Vishwakarma Awards 2023 introduced winners for its three tracks — Water and Sanitation; Clean Technology, and Smart Mobility. Under Clean Technology, Golden Plastics by Rajdeep Singh Devra and Urvish Shah received Best Product Design whereas Design Prototype of Bio-filter to Treatment of Carbon Dioxide Gas Exhausts by Saunam Halder, Pranadipan Sahoo, Vedant Sanghavi, Aditya Gupta was declared Most Innovative Solution.
Under the Smart Mobility observe, ROV-Remote-Operated Underwater Vehicle by Saket Joshi, Sanskruti Gondaliya received Best Product Design whereas SQUADRON: Heterogeneous Swarm Technology by Aryank, Anjali was declared Most Innovative Solution.
Under the Water and Sanitation observe, IoT-enabled real-time Water Monitoring System with Remote Data Accessibility by Satyam by Tarun Gangar received Best Product Design whereas Pushpak by Mohit Kumar Gupta, Jatin Jain Anurag Meena, and Harishit Sharma was declared Most Innovative Solution.
Shiv Nadar University Chennai (SNUC), just lately performed EduQuest 2023-24, for college students in lessons 9-12. As a part of its challenge competitors, ProjectX themed STEM for Sustainable Development, the winners have been S. Naren RajaSekhar, M Senthil Kumar, M Vishal from Pushpalata Matric Higher Secondary School, Tirunelveli. The winners of the SNUC QuBiz- Quiz Competition have been R. Shyam Sundar and Arjun Vaidhyanathan from PSBB KK Nagar, Chennai whereas Vishruth Murali Dharan and Ashwin from PSBB Millenium Coimbatore got here second, and Gagan G Tumkur and Atulithan M S from Vidhya Niketan Coimbatore got here third.
LEAD just lately introduced the winners of the LEAD Championships 2023. In the English Champs class for college students of lessons 6 to 9, Areeba Rizwan Qureshi from Vidya Sabri Public School, Bareilly, was winner; within the Reading Champs class, it was Nida Dumba from Poornima International school- new Raichur, Karnataka; from the Quiz Champs class, it was Prithviraj Wagh from Kids Kingdom Academy, Sonai, Maharashtra. In the senior class for college students of 6 to eight of Quiz Champs, the winners have been Anitha P and Aradhana.S fro, Little Flower Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu.
Prof. Ramgopal Rao, Vice Chancellor, BITS Pilani, acquired the VSI Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 by the VLSI Society of India. The award recognises his contributions in direction of the event of the VLSI Design and Semiconductor ecosystem in India.
Team Krypton comprising L Achintya, Adithya Vedhamani, Okay Lohith Saradhi and Vishwa Kumaresh, third-year college students at Shiv Nadar University, Chennai, bagged the primary place within the Encryptocon Hackathon, organised by Shaastra, IIT Madras, and Temenos. The group targeted on Behavior Analysis of Financial Fraudulent Transactions.
Surveys and research
Internshala Trainings rolled out its year-end e-learning tendencies report. Some findings embrace: a 6.3-fold enhance within the variety of college students choosing on-line certification programs over the previous 5 years and probably the most sought-after ability programs was Web Development carefully adopted by Digital Marketing and Programming with Python; in 2023.
Zell Education launched a report highlighting a surge in placements inside the finance and accounts area for 2023. Some key findings embrace: 74.63% of scholars are from metropolitan areas and 25.37% from non-metro areas, graduates aged 19-25 years represent 51.40%, college students from numerous educational backgrounds are actively pursuing international certifications.
The Unstop Winter Student Sentiment Survey revealed its findings which insights into college students’ priorities and considerations. Some key findings have been: 47% of scholars are pursuing roles with their dream firms and solely 28% have been prepared to compromise on their preliminary alternatives and 61% really feel that expertise has restricted their profession whereas 63% consider that AI will play a vital function in coding jobs.
The Oxford International’s Student Global Mobility Index research supplied insights into the preferences and challenges confronted by UG college students looking for increased training alternatives overseas. Key findings embrace: 50% of Indian college students cited higher profession alternatives as the first motivation to check overseas, whereas 42% cited cultural expertise and 35% of the Indian college students really feel they’ll have the chance for a better-paid profession because of finding out overseas.
MoUs and partnerships
Rishihood University signed an MoU with Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Malaysia, for joint efforts in industry-led international immersion programmes for college students, analysis initiatives, conferences, and cross-cultural growth initiatives.
BITS Pilani signed an MOU with Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya to propel collaborative efforts in analysis and growth, instructing, govt training, curriculum growth, and extra.
Futurense has launched a twin coursework pathway with over 14 extra US establishments and IIT Jodhpur/IIM Indore in India, creating new avenues for Indian engineering college students. This expanded collaboration consists of establishments corresponding to Drexel University, Case Westerns, Rutgers, Tulane University, and extra.
Gopalan Foundation partnered with Whitefield Area Commerce and Industries Association to bridge the academia-industry hole and ability college students. Students will get to collaborate with WACIA member firms on real-world initiatives.
Pearson partnered with Buddha Group of Institutions to supply its BTEC Higher Nationals (HN) Art and Design and Business Management programs to college students on the Buddha Group of Institutions.
Physics Wallah (PW) signed an MoU with ETS India to information college students put together