IIT-Delhi & new zeAland join hands
The New Zealand university-led academic workshop at IIT-Delhi, culminated with a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a New Zealand Centre at the IIT. The centre will be a focal point of academic activity for all eight New Zealand universities and IIT-Delhi.
The two-day workshop provided an opportunity for academics from NZ universities and IIT-Delhi to discuss and develop projects for long term research collaboration.
Collaboration priorities under discussion include sustainable cities, technologies for clean water, cyber security and data science, energy and environmental studies, and advanced biological and healthcare systems and engineering.
Professor Jennifer Dixon, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Strategic Engagement), University of Auckland led the New Zealand delegation and spoke at the MoU signing and said: “This is a significant step in New Zealand’s long-term education relationship with India. We are delighted to be engaging with IIT Delhi as the ideal partner to progress our research collaborations.”
90% placement at fore school of management
The FORE School of Management, New Delhi continues to attain excellence in its placement record. Once again, this premium institute has made a spectacular track record by providing its students an astounding placement for the current batch.
The B-school has been registering unswerving progress in campus hiring from the past years and the placements offers, which has been offered to the students are extremely coveted. Top recruiters are from FMCG, IT/ITES and consulting domains, followed by FSI, Market Research, Pharma, Banking, Automobile, E Commerce, Telecom, Media, Energy and Manufacturing sector.
Till now the highest CTC has been offered as `17.80 lakh for domestic placement and `19.55 lakh for international placement, status is till January 2020.
Workshop on stress management
The KIIT World School conducted a workshop — Handling Examination Stress— for the students. The workshop aimed to teach students how to be calm and deal with stress and anxiety during exam time and help them how they can manage their times to deal with stress.
Tips were shared with the students for handling stress such as always interrupting negative thoughts with positive ones, cut down use of mobile usage, try to talk to someone about your feelings, do regular exercise and meditation and focus on progression, not perfection.
While interacting with students Prof. (Dr) M Sen Gupta said: “Stress is a biological response mechanism of the body system. Individual response to an external situation (disturbs, anxiety, fear).” He told the students to study for 45 minutes at a stretch and take breaks between schedules. During the breaks, they can go for a walk for a few minutes, drink water or juice.
