NZ reopens borders for int students
Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao (ENZ) welcomes the Government’s announcement to reopen New Zealand’s borders. This is a positive step for international education.
The announcement outlined a five-step process for reopening borders from 28 February 2022, initially for New Zealanders to return from Australia and then from the rest of the world.
The Government also announced a fourth border exception class for up to 5,000 international students to enter New Zealand from April 2022 to study for semester two this year, in addition to the earlier cohorts approved in 2020 and 2021.
From October 2022 normal visa processing will resume, enabling international students to enroll for study in New Zealand in 2023.
ENZ Chief Executive Grant McPherson says today’s announcement is an important step towards rebuilding a strengthened and sustainable international education sector. “The border reopening steps outlined today enable the international education sector to progressively open through 2022 for the existing cohorts, with a new much larger cohort able to enter New Zealand for study before semester two.”
More details of the new student cohort in due course.
IIM Kashipur conducts Confab ’22
As the CAT 2021 interview rounds have been notified, candidates are loaded with several doubts about the interview process, preparation methods, curriculum and the colleges and to resolve the same, Team Insite, the admissions body of IIM Kashipur organised Confab’22, a two-day Virtual City Meets programme.
In this two day discussion forum, the team resolved queries regarding the college and processes that follow the admissions phase, discussed the career prospects, pre-MBA preparations, and much more. The event also saw aspirants who applied for the MBA (Analytics) program of IIM Kashipur and had queries regarding the curriculum and scope of doing an MBA in Analytics.
The event was conducted in two slots each, on Feb 5 and Feb 6. It saw an active participation of 600+ aspirants. In order to increase the efficiency of the city meet via virtual mode, break-out rooms were created to ensure one-to-one query resolution for aspirants. The city meet was successful in achieving its end goal of supporting the aspirants.
Sanskriti University signs MOU with EUCLID
The Sanskriti University has signed an MOU with EUCLID (Pole Universitaire Euclide|Euclid University), a specialized intergovernmental organization. This collaboration will provide excellent career opportunities to the students in various departments of technology, management etc.
EUCLID's flagship program is its standard-setting online master in diplomacy and international affairs or MDIA which has qualified many diplomats globally. EUCLID also offers doctoral-level programs in diplomacy, sustainable development, and international public health, as well as a new joint degree program in international public administration. The MOU will enable the students to pursue lagship programmes.
Orientation Programme for Ph D Scholars
The Sanskriti University organised an Orientation Programme for PhD Scholars marking the beginning of their journey into the university. The programme was aimed to provide detailed guidance to the PhD Scholars about the regulations and guidelines related to doctoral research and also help the new entrants understand the nature of the university, the educational opportunities available to them, the values, functions and the Infrastructure of the Sanskriti University. The programme was organised in the blended mode. The students got deep knowledge, skills and competencies about conducting doctoral research and also about publishing research papers.
In welcome address, Sachin Gupta, Chancellor of Sanskriti University said “We have always emphasized on the importance of research and innovation as this is what leads to the development of a country. Our research scholars have always made us proud by working on various innovations and developing many new products. He congratulated the new entrants.”
The students were also addressed by the University's Pro-VC Dr Rakesh Premi.
ABWB’S The Ultimate Math Championship
The Aditya Birla World Academy (ABWA), in association with BITS Pilani has organised Infinity 2022 - The Ultimate Math Championship for students to flex their mathematical acumen and refine their skills in the subject. The preliminary event took place on 8th January 2022 and the final events will be conducted on 21st and 22nd January 2022. The tournament aims to enhance the analytical and thinking abilities of students by providing.
JKLu’s students join IIT Gandhinagar
The JK Lakshmipat University’s eight BTech students have been selected at IIT Gandhinagar to complete their Semester. Earlier in 2019-2020, seven BTech students were selected in the first semester and two more went there in the second semester of 2019-20. These selected students are pursuing their bachelor in computer science; they are fluent in multiple programming languages, including Java, Python, R, and some variants of SQL.
