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Lovely Professional University has been witnessing Inter School Competitions in more than 20 Sports Events in the campus. Thousands of would be Engineers, Educationists, Pharmacists, Research- Scholars are showcasing their inborn talent in the related field of the sports activity.  Under this, Inter School Open Basket Ball Championship was held at the Campus.  In all, 14 teams participated on knock-out basis. Starting from the first week of September, the championship saw its final match played, as a neck to neck competition in which the School of Computer Applications defeated School of Management by 45-42. The sports loving students enjoyed all the matches with much fan-fare. The Director General, Er HR Singla, of LPU awarded trophy to the winning Team and prizes to the chosen best players.

Congratulating the winners and motivating all other participants to different competitions, Er Singla said: “The huge participation of Professional Programmes’ students in sports is clearly indicating that individual talents play major role in the overall development of a student. That is why our university is propagating on these lines so that a student must not waste his inborn talents in any way. We have even offered many scholarships to the deserving sportsmen-women so that they may progress on both the lines of talent development- Individual as well as Professional.” Continuing he added: “Even the Flexi Credit System, adopted towards the selected programmes by the University, is based on the same tones where an Engineering, Bio-Technology or some other student is free to choose a few courses from other department including sports.”

Most recently, LPU has undergone an extensive restoration and rehabilitation process transforming itself into a state-of-the-art special events arena. In addition to, Basketball Championship, LPU is, also organising competitions in the fields like Judo, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, Wrestling, Boxing, Badminton, Chess, Football, Hockey, Cricket etc. Eyeing Olympics, the management is trying hard to prepare the students in such a way that at least they may aspire to join Indian Olympic team.  In fact, LPU has proven to be a great setting for sports men/women, athletes and fans of the events.

A few of the participating students Hamid, Roger, Manav, Rohit, Kulwinder and Raphael said: “We are, of course, thrilled to participate in the different sports activities. These all activities are providing us much fun, relaxation, encouragement and team spirit along with our studies.”

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 Why should you further your student education and go to University? 

The skills that you will develop while working for a higher education qualification will prove invaluable in later life, no matter what you choose to do. Basically every course offer international exchanges and workplace placements, providing invaluable employment experience.

 

Graduate unemployment is around half that of non-graduates.

 

Tutors, student groups and new friends provide an excellent support network for the time you are going to spend at university and afterwards. They say the friends you make at University are the ones you make for life!

 

Students benefit from a huge range of discounts on everything from travel and cinema tickets to magazine subscriptions and entrance fees. Handy if you want to keep down your expenses! (Which you will do!)

 

Graduates get a wider choice of jobs in their chosen career with a higher education qualification. Also graduates tend to get fast-tracked into positions such as management, whereas without a higher education qualification, you will need to work your way up the career ladder.

 

If you have a higher education qualification, you are likely to earn around 50 per cent more on average than those without one. (Bonus!)

 

It gives you a chance to move to a new city, away from your parents and have some freedom and independence, which is both exciting and scary at the same time!

 

And most importantly… It’s fun! There are loads of clubs, societies, and parties going on if you get yourself really involved. The years spent at university are a time when great friendships are forged too, usually your friends for life!

 

 

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, the leading higher education provider in India, announced that it has introduced new courses and allocate more scholarships for the year 2010 along with additional infrastructures and facilities to its students. The university has also tied up with many new foreign universities for better teaching and learning atmosphere on the campus.

Since establishing Kasturba Medical College in 1953, nineteen other institutions have been set up, and the excellence in higher education that began in Manipal 56 years ago, continues even today with a fresh look each year. 

The university has added ten new courses taking the total number of courses in the University to 264. Registrar, Dr G.K. Prabhu, giving details of the new courses, admission details, scholarships and other activities of the university told reporters that by starting Manipal Centre for European Studies the University took the first big step in the direction of humanities. The university catered to higher education in medicine, engineering and management. So a Masters course in European Studies and Management adds more variety for students to choose from. “Diploma in Gandhian and Peace Studies, and also Certificate courses in Public Health and Global Health have already started,” he said.  “The other new courses introduced for 2010 include MS Wireless Embedded Systems, MS IT Management, MTech Chemical Engineering, MTech Environmental Engineering, MSc Pharmacoeconomics, and MSc Clinical Research management”.

Manipal University has always encouraged students to perform to their full potential by providing them with scholarships. Meritorious and deserving candidates are given one of the several freeships and scholarships that exist in the university. “The allocation for the year 2010 is Rs 12.23 crores. It was Rs 7.93 crores in 2009 and Rs 6.83 crores prior to that,” Dr Prabhu said.

– Candidates admitted to MBBS course within the first ranks and BDS, BE, BPharm courses within the first ranks of the respective merit list are offered freeship.

– AICTE has introduced the scheme on tuition fee waiver for women, economically backward and physically handicapped meritorious students joining BE, BPharm and BHM courses.

– There is a 10 per cent tuition fee waiver for students of schools and colleges of Academy of General Education (AGE) joining any course at Manipal University. However, the waiver will be 25 per cent for those students joining Allied Health Sciences or Nursing courses.

– A similar waiver of tuition fees, 10 per cent and 25 per cent respectively, is applicable for Konkani students also.

GE Scholarship, Harish B Fund Scholarship, ISLE Scholarship, ITC Scholarship, Maulana Azad National Scholarship and Philips Scholarships.

Manipal University has robust relationships with several US, European and Australian Universities regarding student and faculty exchange and collaborative research. 14 best students of KMC Manipal and Mangalore get to do their one month elective clinical training in Utrecht University and Groningen University in the Netherlands. Similar scholarships are available to students of Media & Communication in
University of Queensland, Australia and Hochschule Bremen, Germany. Students of MIT get opportunities to do their internships in various Universities and industries across the world by being members of IAESTE.

Admissions for all these courses and for the existing under graduate and post graduate courses have already begun. Prospectus and forms are available across the country at selected post offices and State Bank of India branches. Candidates can also visit www.manipal.edu and download the digital prospectus and application or apply online by paying the application fees through Credit Card or Net Banking or Demand Draft.

Talking about the online entrance test Dr Prahbu said; “Manipal University is known for its online entrance tests. Considering it to be quite popular and student friendly, the university has decided to start more centers where students can take their test online”. The final score are displayed on the test screen soon after the completion of the test. The admissions are therefore, merit based and transparent. Candidates can choose the date, time and location depending on their own convenience.

Presently there are 21 centres and six more are being included this year. They are
Allahabad, Kanpur, Patna, Ranchi, Varanasi and Vijayawada

MBBS, BDS, BE, BPharm, PharmD –
MD, MS, PG Medical Diploma, MDS, PG Diploma in Dental Materials –

Manipal University is the leading higher education provider in India.  Spread over 600 acres of green expanse, Manipal University is home to 20,000 students pursuing undergraduate and post graduate programs in diverse subjects. The University has a strong alumni network of over 72,000 members.

The University has created an ecosystem of teaching and research excellence making it a universally accepted destination by students.   The breadth of disciplines and collaboration among constituent institutions gives unparalleled opportunity to students to cross departmental boundaries and explore different horizons

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In a step further towards its internationalization strategy, Lovely Professional University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with University of Missouri, Columbia. This MoU was signed between the Engineering departments of both the Universities with a vision of providing the students the opportunity to study in each other’s campus and learn the workings of foreign universities.

Both the universities are prominent names in the field of education in their respective countries and are considered to be pioneers of quality education at international level. Missouri University is considered one of the nation’s top-tier institutions of the world and has a reputation of excellence in teaching and research while LPU has earned the stature of largest University in India. The twinning arrangement programmes offered by LPU have a major say in the curriculum and pedagogy of the University and this prompts the foreign universities to come in collaboration with it. Under this MoU, the students taking admission in the under graduate engineering courses of 2011 session shall be eligible to complete half their course at LPU and the other half at Missouri University.

On signing the MoU, Mr. Ashok Mittal, Chancellor of LPU said, “LPU is a global University having tie ups with 20 international universities of global repute. Our twinning arrangement programmes are the strength of our curriculum which allows our students to have enough international exposure. This collaboration with University of Missouri will benefit our students in terms of practical exposure and knowledge enhancement which will further help them in their professional lives. Such students who have global exposure and experience always have an edge over other potential candidates at the time of recruitments. We want all our students to have that ‘edge’ and hence we are doing continuous efforts to enter into such new collaborations.”

Expressing his trust in LPU, Dr.Jim Thompson, the Dean of University of Missouri said, “We always wanted to have a tie up with an Indian University which works on the similar strategies and patterns as we do. After a stringent survey on Indian universities we found LPU to be the best suited one for our requirements. The University is not only open to spreading quality education at international level but also has its curriculum and pedagogy at par with international universities. This makes it a university well recognized at global level. As we sign this MoU with such a renowned name, I’m pleased that our 6 months efforts to get associated with LPU have well paid off.”

The most illustrative factor about MU is that it is ranked at No. 32 with Michigan State University and Virginia Tech in the top 50 public national universities-doctoral list with more than thirty thousand students on rollsNorth Central Association of Colleges and Schoolsof United Statesaccredits it. NCA itself is one of six regional organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

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World renowned Hydrogolist Dr. Rameshwar S Kanwar has joined Lovely Professional University as Vice-Chancellor. After teaching at the prestigious Iowa State University, USA for more than three decades and more recently as the Department Chair of the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department, coming back to his home country, eminent professor Dr. Kanwar has joined the Lovely Professional University as the new Vice-Chancellor.

An MS holder from G B Pant University of Agricultural and Technology in India and a Ph.D in water resources from Iowa State University, Professor Ramesh Kanwar is a distinguished academician, renowned researcher and a respected teacher. Dr. Kanwar specializes in irrigation, drainage, groundwater quality, animal waste management, water table management, sustainable agricultural production systems and modeling of hydrologic systems, engineering solution to emerging global environmental problems from agricultural and livestock production systems. Apart from Iowa State University students, he also taught undergraduate and postgraduate and PhD students in Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Uzbekistan as well as India. An honourary professor at Beijing Agricultural University in China, Ningxia University in China, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization in Uzbekistan, and Trakia University in Bulgaria.

On this occasion, welcoming and introducing Dr. Kanwar, the Chancellor Mr Ashok Mittal informed: “Joining of Dr. Rameshwar S Kanwar will really prove most beneficial and fruitful to all the students and members of staff at LPU. Persons of his status and stature are in a way boon for the rare developments in the arena of education. His international outcomes, thoughts and progressive manners will indeed help us realizing the dreams we have already envisaged for, as Dr. Kanwar’s research interests are versatile and of global importance.” He further mentioned: “Prof. Kanwar has worked for the World Bank, FAO, UNDP, USAID, NATO, and foreign universities/governments in Belgium, Portugal, Kenya, Ethiopia, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, India, China, Thailand, Japan, and several other countries.”

Addressing, Dr. Kanwar said: “I am looking forward to lead LPU. After spending 35 years at US, coming back to India is really exhilarating and thrilling.” He continued: “I will try to bring improvement in the academics and betterment in whole of the system. No doubt, university has already marked at international level, we will together further strive with expertise and team work.”

It is worth noticing, Dr. Kanwar was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the Georgian State Agrarian University in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2000 and was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences in India in 2001. In 2005, he was elected Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. In 2007, he was awarded Doctorate Honour Causa Scientific by the Trakia University in Bulgaria. He has received numerous awards including Engineer of the Year Award by ASABE, Distinguished Service Award by the Asian Association of Agricultural Engineers, and Outstanding Young Engineering Faculty Research Award, Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, and International Service Award by Iowa State University.

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University of London, United Kingdom and Lovely Professional University discussed to start Double Degree Programmes in the fields of Business . Ms Rosemary Gosling, the Director, External Studies LSE has paid a two-day visit to the University in this context. She met the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and other academicians of the University to discuss the opportunities of these programmes. In addition, she also visited different Departments, Hostels and other areas of importance of the University. She also had broad interactions with the students, faculty and other members of staff.

Welcoming Ms Rosemary, the Chancellor of LPU, Mr Ashok Mittal said: ” This endeavour is not only beneficial and matter of honour for the LPU but the Punjab State itself where the universities of great importance and standing like University of London decided to expand in India. Moreover, the sole aim of our University is to accord maximum number of opportunities to our progressive students. These programmes will give opportunity to the students to get degrees of both University of London International Programmes and that of LPU. This will help student to be employed not only in India but also across globe. The important factor of this program is that the Fee-Structure for these will not be high. I have great admiration for this great and preferred opportunity accorded by the International programmes of the University of London, and to Ms Gosling for helping us to further the development and continuous progress in the field of education.”

On this occasion, Ms Rosemary Gosling said: “We are expanding our educational programmes world over. We have been coming to India for the last fifteen years and this time, we, of course are pleased that the largest university of India, LPU is interested in offering our programmes In addition to feeling warmth accorded to me in a beautifully designed expanse of the University, I have been much impressed by the very good Infrastructure, Laboratories, Libraries, Hostels and many thousands of students hailing from different countries and states of India. Meeting the higher authorities of the University and having interactions with the staff and students, I have grasped that LPU has great potential in regard to internationalization and we hope to work together along these lines.”

The University of London has been in existence for more than 180 years and has offered International Programmes to students all over the world for over 150 years. The University and its constituent colleges have high reputation for academic distinction in teaching and research, both in the UK and internationally.

 

A great Education Expo based on ‘Study in New Zealand’ was organized by the Division of International Affairs of Lovely Professional University. Representatives of Nine government oriented Universities and Institutes of New Zealand from Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch etc participated prominently in the Expo. The Chief Co-ordinator to this was International Marketing Manager, Ms Robyn McCollum from Hamilton. Hundreds of students kept thronging day long to the Admissions Hall of the University for information on New Zealand.

Talking to the Media, the Chancellor of the University, Mr Ashok Mittal informed: “More than one thousand students utilized fully, this day long and first time ever ‘Study & Settle in New Zealand’ Education Expo. They had face to face interaction with representatives of top Government Universities / Institutes of New Zealand. They made intensive queries and cleared their doubts about Programmes of their choice, successful career, part time job opportunities, equivalence to other top universities of the world and even lurking uncertainties of being in a foreign land.” He also said: “We want to accord all types of opportunities to an aspiring student so that he/ she may prove out to be an essential part of the increasingly globally- connected world.” He further added: “Such Expos are managed so as to ensure to have our alumni more global.”

Ms McCollum from Wintec and Joanne Duncan from Waiariki said: “We have got a great opportunity at LPU to guide many hundreds of students belonging to different parts of India and many other foreign lands. We have observed that the students at the University are themselves very well conversant about the foreign educational scenario. However we provided them all other additional details which pertained to their present day queries in regard to the latest programmes of immediate global needs.” She further added: “We have clearly informed the students about government own-ship of the Institutes, vocationally and academic focused qualifications, exit awards, degrees, diplomas etc.

Some of the students, Sohail. Puneet, Srishti, Raveena, Zubaeida &Hassan said: “We have come to know in elaborations about education opportunities in New Zealand and the sure pathway to settlement there, post study. It is a stark reality that we get enormous opportunities through our University end so that we may develop in accordance to present wants of the Industry and society.”

Lovely Professional University has won Italian Trade Commission (ICE) Scholarships, this year. LPU has further selected its 8 meritorious students and one Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Department under this scheme. They are all, presently, on an educational tour for 15 days to Italy. Under IMTTA 2011- ITALIAN MACHINE TOOL TECHNOLOGY AWARD, visiting students have to go for an extensive and detailed visit programme IN ITALY up to 16th JULY, 2011. The visiting ones are provided with free to and fro air-tickets, hotel-stays, food and transport for local visits.

Talking to media, the Chancellor of the University, Mr Ashok Mittal said: “These scholarships are annually awarded by the Italy Government to three countries- India, US and Russia. This year our University bagged these for our Country.”He further explained, “We have further selected 8 Mechanical Engineering students on Merit Basis, Personal Interviews and Project Reports as per the Italian Embassy.” He also added: “This is a great chance for our hard working students to further get exposed to global experience of immense utility. They will be able to learn about latest Italian Machine tool technologies and machines in practical shape, through present tour.”

Some of the visiting students, Manveer Singh, Shouqat Ali, Rohit, Sneh hold: “University always try to accord the best of the opportunity to students so that we may keep on learning latest trends and techniques. The present endeavour to Italy is one of the best examples for this.”  It is illustrative that students will get valuable knowledge about different projects, along with the American and Russian students.

MIP Representatives will train them through vast presentations about ‘Strategic Management of Technological Innovation’, ‘Design evolution and industrial product Trends’ and ‘Technology Driven Innovation: Virtual Prototyping’ at MIP POLITECNICO DI MILANO. They also have to absorb an extensive technical know-how through Association of Italian Manufacturers of Machine Tools Robots, Automation Systems and Ancillary Products (UCIMU-SISTEMI) and Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation at MILAN. Not only this, they will also have free time to recreate themselves under a wonderful trip to naturalistic-cultural spot in the surroundings of Milan, and Museum of Flight at Varese, MUSEO GALLERIA FERRARI at Maranello and Ducati, factory and museum at Bologna.

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The Chiang Mai University Online TEFL Program is pleased to announce the availability of two scholarships for free tuition to our Online TEFL Certification Program.

 

This course has been entirely authored by the experts at the Language Institute.  The content is similar to that of the 120-hour, on campus course but the online curriculum delves deeper into the theory, philosphy and psychology of effictive language teaching.

 

This program offers the convenience of learning at  your own pace from anywhere with an internet connection and can be completed in as little as two weeks or can be taken slowly over six months.

All interested applicants must submit an essay of 300 words or more which addresses the following question.

All essays should be pasted onto the (Your Message) section of the (Contact Page) on the Chiang Mai University Language Institute web site.

Just visit us at click on contact and paste your essay.

The deadline for submission is

The scholarship winners will be announced during the second week in January 2009.

The Scholarships will be awarded to the two best essays.

Please feel free to be creative, funny, serious personal or academic in your approach to this essay.

The scholarships will cover all tuition for the course and certification upon successful completion.

All successful graduates will receive their Chiang Mai University Online TEFL Certification by mail.

Any further questions can be directed to the Chiang Mai Online TEFL Team by using the contact page on the web site.

Good Luck.

We are looking forward to your essays.

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