I have completed graduation and I would like to go for the Civil Services. Can I attend coaching classes and pursue studies as well?
Krishna Murthy
It is good that you are starting early. Select a graduation programme that would help you understand the nuances of the subject from the perspective of the Civil Services Examination. Subjects such as Sociology/Anthropology, Public Administration, Geography, Psychology, and History are of interest and would help you.
The preparation should be intensive. Tutorials help to boost your confidence. The list is by no means exhaustive.
Brilliant Tutorials, P.O. Box: 4996-CM, 12, Masilamani Street, T.Nagar, Chennai-17 www.brilliant-tutorials.com
Vajiram and Ravi IAS Study Centre, 79, Old Rajinder Nagar Market, New Delhi 110 060
Rau's IAS Study Circle, 44, Dakshineshwar Building, 10, Haily Road, New Delhi-110 001 www.rauias.com
JSS Training Institute for Competitive Exams, 38th Cross, 1st Main, 8th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore. Ph: 26655086
Himalai IAS Centre, 173/B, 1st Floor, 7th Main, 4th Block, opposite Sukshema Clinic, Rajajinagar, Bangalore. Ph: 56691218.
What courses does NIIT Imperia offer? I heard that it is offering a programme from IIM-Kolkata in the correspondence mode. I have six years of work experience in the manufacturing segment and FMCG. Please advice if it is feasible to undertake the programme.
Nilesh
NIIT Imperia Centre for Advanced Learning (www.niitimperia.com) has been specially created to provide quality management education and customised learning solutions for organisations and working professionals.
The NIIT Imperia-IIM, Kolkata one-year programme is for senior executives with quantitative tools and qualitative perspective so that they can make strategic decisions.
It will enable participants to broaden their business perspective, develop tools and techniques required for managing organisations and very importantly, transform them into strategic leaders in their organisations.
The programme is divided into two modules — Introductory and Advanced. The Introductory Module focuses on the essentials of functional skills of management. The Advanced Module shifts focus to strategic thinking, decision-making, leadership styles, and managing business globally.
Working executives with an experience profile of at least 10 years and who are graduates (10+2+3 or equivalent schemata) in any discipline with minimum 50 per cent marks are eligible to apply for the programme.
Students will be selected on the basis of their performance in the Programme Aptitude Test (PAT) conducted by NIIT Imperia, together with assessment of background and motivation (SOP) based on the application form submitted.
There is a common application and selection process for students applying for any number of programmes.
All candidates need to complete the Common Application Form (CAF) as the first step in the admission process.
You can contact the NIIT Imperia offices in Karnataka located at the following address:
1st Floor, 74-2, Sanjana Plaza, Elephant Rock Road, 3rd Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore-560 011.
V.V. Mohalla, PDR Atrium, CH 19/1 (1028), 2nd Floor, Jayalaxmi Vilasa Road, Chamraja Mohalla, Mysore-557 004.
I am studying in the University of Agricultural Sciences. On completion of the course I would like to join a correspondence course in agri-business management and related areas. Please provide information on this aspect so that I can further my career.
Mansi
Being an agricultural scientist, you should pursue agri-business and related areas of study in the regular mode, for it will help you in your placement as well. The area of study has not yet developed through the distance mode. The following two programmes are conducted on campus.
Pursuing them from IIMA and IRMA would help you juxtapose the hard-core agricultural scientist in you and the dynamics of business and the corporate world to help you to augment a career of your choice.
Post-Graduate Programme in Agri-Business Management (PGP-ABM) is offered by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) (www.iimahd.ernet.in).
Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand, offers Post-Graduate programmes in Rural Management (PGDRM), and Development.
Placements are good in both these institutes.
I have heard a lot about Futures Studies; I would like to have more details about it.
Naren Tamanna
Futures studies reflects on how today's changes become tomorrow's reality. It includes attempts to analyse the sources, patterns and causes of change and stability in order to develop foresight and to map alternative futures. In fact, by understanding the present an effort is made to impact the future.
The subjects and methods of futures studies include possible, probable, and desirable variations or alternative transformations of the present, both social and “natural” (that is, independent of human impact).
A broad field of inquiry, futures studies explores and represents what the present could become from multiple interdisciplinary perspectives.
Futures studies takes as one of its important attributes the ongoing effort to analyse images for the future and the way we can better ourselves.
To illustrate: we see a dwindling of the tribal population in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; the idea of the area of study would be to preserve the tribal ecology and help in furthering the cause of their living. This effort includes collecting quantitative and qualitative data about the possibility, probability, and desirability of change.
The plurality of the term “futures” in futures studies denotes the rich variety of images of the future (alternative futures), including the subset of preferable futures (normative futures), that can be studied.
Pondicherry University has a Department of Futures Studies and you can contact the department for more information.
Please guide me on courses in relation to Advanced Management Programme in Banking in Bangalore. I have completed B.Com by correspondence and I am presently working with a lawyer who practices cases in relation to taxation of different kinds.
Ajay Dugar
The Advanced Management Programme in Banking and Finance (AMP – B and F) is conducted by the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF) (www.iibf.org.in).
The AMP is conducted across the country in collaboration with various institutes of repute. IIBF conducts the AMP in Bangalore through the Institute of Finance and International Management (IFIM) (www.ifimbschool.com). The AMP is conducted for a period of 11 months on a part-time basis; which encourages those at work to participate and accrue of the benefits.
The programme has a specific target group as well; hence it will be pertinent for you to meet the counsellor at IFIM or browse the website of IIBF and get to know the programme better.
The pedagogy and curriculum will be the best as you will guided by the best of faculty and institutions of eminence.
For more details you should connect to: IFIM, No. 8P and 9P, KIADB Industrial Area, Electronics City 2nd Phase, Bangalore-560 100. Ph: 5110 2820.
You can also get in touch with the Director of Academic Affairs, IIBF, the Arcade, 2nd Floor, World Trade Centre, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai-400 005. Ph: 022-2218 7003. Fax: 022-2218 5147.
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