Do you use a computer?

Computers are touted as our best friends when helping out routine tasks. But do they?

Microsoft Office is officially the starting point for almost all educational institutions across the world. If you are using any software which is file based, should you rethink?

Files are best when you organize them well within the computer you are using. Years after or even days after if you start searching for a file you know the frustration of keeping multiple files.

Another disadvantage is that if you want some data like fees collected this year Vs comparison between mean of fees collected over the last 10 years. You have lot of files to refer and collation to do.

But files are best in one thing. If your superior immediately asks for some status/report on something which comes out of blue in his mind, files are best. But try to end your story there.

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Alumni or Alumnae-Who are they?

An alumnus (pl. alumni) according to the American Heritage Dictionary is "a graduate or former student of a school, college, or university." In addition, an alumna (pl. alumnae) is "a female graduate or former student of a school, college, or university."

If a group includes more than one gender, even if there is only one male, the plural form alumni is used.

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Educational institutions are industrial establishments: High Court of Kerala, India

The Kerala High Court today (July 3rd 2009) said educational institutions are industrial establishments.

A Division Bench comprising Justice K Balakrishnan Nair and Justice C T Ravikumar, while dismissing a batch of petitions challenging them inclusion of private schools under the ESI Act, observed that in a Supreme Court decision, educational institutions were industrial establishments and comes under the ESI Act.

The court also ratified the State Government order by which the Government schools were brought under the provisions of ESI Act. The ESI Act is a beneficial legislation, which should be interpreted liberally, the bench added.

News Courtesy:
newKerala.com

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What does CEU stand for?

CEU is acronym for Continuing Education Unit. The term is mainly used in United States.

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Wikipedia

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What are Course Credits?

Courses taken in colleges are measured in terms of hours. Each credit hours correspond to some n hours. The hours differ from college to college and from university to university. The state or the institution sets a minimum number of credits required to graduate.

In other words it is to help meet completion requiremens for courses, allowing a student to get closer to graduating. Students are often awarded college credit hours for honors classes or for life or work experience equivalent to course training.

For example:- A 15 credit hour semester schedule would mean you should be in the classroom for 15 hours per week. That is not easy considering you need to prepare at least 2-3 hours out of class in studying and assignments.

But some institutes use this as a weightage of a course. For Example in IIM, Bangalore, courses are listed on 1, 2 or 3 credit courses depending on the indicated workload for each course. The generally accepted thumb rule is that a 3 credit course involves about 100 hours of work. Out of this 100 hours one-third is classroom and rest outside the class in preparation of assignments etc. See the credits associated with each course of the Doctoral program in IIMB. Click here.

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Admissions Blog

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