St.Xavier's Vocational Degree Courses 2014

St.Xavier's Vocational Degree Courses 2014

St.Xavier's College Mumbai announces the UGC sanctioned Bachelor of Vocational Degree Courses

Application are invited for the First YEar Diploma courses in Tourism and in Software Development


B. Voc. is a three year degree course with multiple exit points. Students can leave:
1. At the end of first year with a Diploma
2. At the end of second year with an Advanced Diploma
3. At the end of three years with a Degree

B. Voc (Software Development) : The IT sector in India is growing and vocationally trained skilled workforce in very large numbers(~ 40,000) is required for automation of enterprises & companies.

This course will be designed so that at the end of three years students will get B. Voc. (Software Development) degree and can seek jobs in the field of materials management in manufacturing industries in the purchase / stores/ sales & marketing departments.
However, at the end of first year student can leave with a Diploma and seek jobs as Computer Assistants for the General Office & Accounts Management. If they continue through the second year they can leave with an advanced diploma and seek jobs in the technical management in publishing, entertainment media & social industry.

B. Voc (Tourism) : India’s huge natural, historical and cultural diversity is poorly tapped by the tourism industry. According to one source, India’s position stands at 41 internationally and 11 in the Asia-Pacific region. While the Government and other agencies look into the infrastructural and other essentials for Tourism development we see lacunae in the availability of well trained Tour guides, Managers, Operators to develop the vast potential for Tourism that India has to offer. Besides, the concept of Tourism and hospitality management has now widened to include Event Management of both short and long programmes for corporate groups, educational institutes etc. This service–based industry requires (besides cognitive, creative and core-competency skills in the practical and organizational aspects of the industry) crucial and well-developed interpersonal and communication skills.

Last date of application is 15th July 2014

For more information visit : http://xaviers.edu/

NIIT Launched Cloud Campus

NIIT Launched Cloud Campus

NIIT Limited, Asia's largest IT trainer,announced a breakthrough initiative ‘Cloud Campus', for redefining the education landscape by making available new-age skills, to students across the breadth of the country.

NIIT aims to offer over 100 courses across 300 locations by the end of 2013, thus enabling coverage of over 500,000 students by 2014. NIIT will offer training programs in IT, Banking, Global Finance, Management, Digital & Social Media Marketing, through Cloud CampusTM with innovative learning features. NIIT Cloud CampusTM will empower the youth of the country by providing new-age training programs through the cutting-edge Cloud technology, to make them first day-first hour industry ready professionals.

NIIT Cloud CampusTM harnesses the power of Cloud technology to provide unique features :

* Cloud Classroom - where students can interact and learn from not only the at-location faculty, but more importantly from expert faculty from wherever they are.

* Cloud Courseware - the digital and dynamic courseware enables students to make notes, highlight and review at their convenience.

* Anywhere Lab - providing 24x7 access for hands-on practice on their devices.

* Lesson on Demand - ensuring that students do not have to miss a lesson, even if they miss a class.

* Online Assessments - enabling students take practice tests besides taking industry-level assessments.

* Buddynet Learning - a learning feature that enables collaboration with other students as well as expert faculty, thus making learning a lot more fun.

At NIIT Cloud Campus, you can study a wide range of programmes based on your interest area and current education qualification.

For more information visit : http://www.niitcloudcampus.com/

Microsoft, Autodesk to provide free software to AICTE

Microsoft and Autodesk will provide free software to students and engineering/architecture faculty in colleges and Institutes under the ambit of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

AICTE Chairman S.S. Mantha signed MoUs with Autodesk Chief Education Officer Joe Asthroth and Microsoft General Manager - Developer Partner Evangelism Moorthy Uppaluri on Friday.

Moorthy Uppaluri, general manager, Microsoft India said that this will provide access to software to millions of students who design projects as part of their curricula and otherwise. The softwares like Window phone, visual Studio, Explorer-9 will be freely available via the AICTE website.

AICTE chairman S.S. Mantha said the softwares will be readily available to institutes from Friday onwards but students can access them individually within two months

The step will benefit nearly 50 lakh students and over 3 lakh faculty all over the country as unique ID and passwords will be provided to them.