Research degree

UK-based University of Southampton’s Centre for Environmental Studies has opened applications for one year MSc degree in environmental pollution control. It bestows training opportunities for careers in research and management relating to air, water and waste pollution control. Students will work closely with the industry and government to address some of the key problems facing the world today including mitigating the effects of, and adapting to climate change, sustainable development, conservation of biodiversity and environmental protection, resource management, and pollution control.

Candidates must have a first class or a second class upper honours degree approved by the university. These entries will be subject to admission only after excelling a university-conducted interview. The course fee is £20,550 and will commence from September 2018.  Students applying are eligible for Southampton Merit Scholarships worth £3,000, Chevening Scholarship and Commonwealth Scholarships as tuition fee reduction. Application deadline is by 31 January 2018. For details visit: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/engineering/postgraduate/taught_courses/emp/msc_environmental_pollution_control.page

Digitally updated

University of Michigan India Alumni Association organised its annual event in Mumbai. It was attended by more than 250 alumni from across India. Eminent industry speakers including Chanda Kochhar, managing director and CEO, ICICI Bank; ScottDeRue, dean, University of Michigan; Stephen M. Ross, School of Business Affairs and BVR; Mohan Reddy, founder and executive chairman, Cyient. The panel discussed the importance of creation of new jobs and investing time in learning skill acquisition throughout employees’ careers in the digital era.

Healthcare conference

IIHMR University, Jaipur held a conference named “Imagining sustainable futures” from 16 to 17 November. It was part of the university’s annual intellectual offering to the healthcare community called Pradanya. This was Pradanya’s 22nd edition which brought together some notable figures from the healthcare sector to ideate, debate, and deliberate on the various challenges like public health and hospital management, development sector and pharmaceutical segments in both public and private sector. It focused on SMART-S for sustainable design and healthcare, M for managing change in disruptive times, A for analytics mobility and the cloud, R For rurban (rural +urban) challenges and opportunities and T for technological innovation and well being.

Going online

FIITJEE has gone online with its All India Test Series for JEE 2018. As a part of its preparatory support to the students, this offers tests for JEE advanced and main in simulated environment from November onwards. The tests were conducted simultaneously across 75+ cities at 140 test centres in India. FIITJEE’s academic team will release report card along with predictive All India Rank for the students to analyse and compare their performance, and further fine tune it in their next test under AITS in the online format.