Placement at MSU’s science faculty goes hi-tech!

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:05:47 +0000

VADODARA: Campus placement at MS University (MSU) went high tech with science faculty arranging a video conference facility at its placement cell. It will also be the first faculty in the varsity to offer such facility to boost the placement process as well aims to provide gateways to interact with faculty members from foreign universities. This facility will be inaugurated on Friday and will be put to use right away.

Be it job interviews or conducting virtual classrooms, this facility is expected to make things easier from now onwards. The faculty is eyeing greater collaboration with universities abroad to conduct special guest lectures virtually. Even recruiting companies will now be able to interview prospective students without coming to the city.

“We were working to put this system in place for sometime now. This initiative has been taken to speed up placement process. Secondly, we also want to orient our students to scientific advancement taking place globally. That will now be possible through virtual classrooms. These sessions can be recorded and shared as well,” said officiating dean of science faculty, Nikhil Desai.

“This move is expected to attract more companies to the faculty for conducting campus placement. For companies, it would economical way to pick up talent from the faculty and students too need not incur expenditure to attend interviews. Our faculty managed to set-up this unit with faculty funds and in coming months we are going to add other advanced technologies,” added Desai.

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MSU social work faculty signs first int’l MoU

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:19:08 +0000

Students from MS University’s social work faculty will now get a chance to explore global social practises, with the faculty joining hands with a university in United Kingdom. In its first international pact, the faculty will collaborate for an exchange programme with Huddersfield University (HU).

As per the memorandum of understanding (MoU), signed between MSU and HU on Wednesday, the collaboration will be for three years during which teachers and students from social work faculty will visit HU to learn practises in UK and vice versa.

Students will stay for a period of 10 days. They will only have to bear the air fare with the host university bearing their other expenditure. The MoU was signed by MSU vice-chancellor Ramesh Goyal and Jan Firth, associate dean for planning and development in HU.

“This programme will help the varsity and faculty to understand various social policies and services in the area of social development. It will also pave way for regular exchange of ideas, thoughts and trends,” said dean of social work professor Aruna Khasgiwala.

“This exchange programme will also give us a platform to share our social set-ups. At the same time, we will get fresh ideas which can be implemented back home. A group of students will go to UK every year,” added dean of students and head of social work department professor M N Parmar.

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Popularity of BBA, BCA courses takes a beating in vadodara!

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:56:14 +0000

The courses that used to rake in moolah for MS University seem to be losing their popularity among youngsters. MSU’s Bachelors of Computer Application (BCA) programme which was seen as one of the most sought-after courses along with Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) programme has seen a drastic dip in number of aspirants this year.

On Sunday, only 1,223 students took the entrance test compared to last year when close to 2,000 aspirants competed for 120 seats. Similar trend was witnessed during BBA programme’s entrance test at Faculty of Commerce this year. In BBA this year, only 1,409 applicants filed forms for the programme with only 1,303 appearing for the entrance test against last year when 1,580 students had appeared for it. BBA programme has seen a decline of applicants despite officials increasing the intake of students from 120 to 180 from this academic year.

As per the data, this time around 1,265 aspirants collected the forms from BCA while only 1,241 were finally submitted. Only 1,223 students appeared for the written test with 18 aspirants remaining absent. The list of 120 students will be prepared based on the performance of the test and academic merits.

“There has been a drop in the number of aspirants this year owing to a host of reasons. Results of Gujarat board are not declared which might have kept students away. Besides, with increase in number of engineering seats, the rush has diverted there,” said co-ordinator of BCA programme Dr VA Kalamkar.

The BCA programme is losing popularity even as the course will be entering 10th year from the academic session in July. “We will have to evolve strategies to revive interest of students in the programme,” added Kalamkar.

One change that BCA officials plan to bring about from the new academic year is to start .Net programme from third semester onwards. “There is huge demand for computer professionals specialising in .Net technologies,” he said.

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Placement at MSU’s science faculty goes hi-tech!

Placement at MSU’s science faculty goes hi-tech

MSU social work faculty signs first int’l MoU

Popularity of BBA, BCA courses takes a beating in vadodara!