Exploring art

Delhi Collage of Art, New Delhi, announced the commencement of admissions for its four year degree course in fine art designed for those who have recently passed Class +2. The programme consists of various modules covering different aspects of fine arts. It provides disciplines of painting, sculpture and applied art at the undergraduate level to help each student develop as a full-fledged artist.

The +2 passed from any stream who wants to work in fine arts industry can enrol for this course.

The objective is to teach students through projects, based on current industry requirements. Application forms and brochure may be obtained from admission office of the college. Last date for submission is 30 December. For details, visit: www.delhicollageofart.com

Laboratory medicine

Delhi Paramedical & Management Institute, Delhi, is inviting applicants for its one-year and two years full-time diploma in operation theatre technology and radio imagine technology and six months certificate programme in operation theatre technology. Minimum qualification for securing admission to diploma programme is +2 passed and certificate programme is Class X passed from any recognised board.

The programme aims to provide efficient and balanced training in laboratory medicine. This course offers a challenging career in hospitals, minor emergency centres, private laboratory, blood donor centres, doctor’s office or clinics. Forms can be purchased from the admission office of the institute. Last date for submission is 23 December. For details, visit: www.dpmiindia.com

Music scholarship

The National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, and Citi India is calling for applicants for the Citi – NCPA Scholarship for Indian Music. Candidates between age group of 18 to 30 years are eligible to apply for the scholarship worth Rs 7,500 per month for the year 2018-2019. Applications (bio-data on music education) should be send in an envelope marked “Citi – NCPA Scholarship for Indian Music” to the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400021 or mailed to ncpascholarships@gmail.com. Last date for submission is 20 December. The shortlisted candidates will be informed via email or telephone. They will be required to appear for an audition at the centre campus in February 2018. Students who are going to benefit from any other scholarship in the field of music during April 2018-19 are not eligible to apply. Applicants should not be working as professional musicians.

Rewarding excellence

Macquarie University announced scholarship worth $1.5 million to reward outstanding students in India, with a focus on supporting postgraduate female students, undergraduate students across all Macquarie courses, and students interested in pursuing data science.

The university has recently launched master of data science programme. The students will be offered a scholarship worth up to $12,000 for academic session commencing in 2018. The deadline for these scholarships is 31 January 2018 for session one and 30 June 2018 for session two. For details, visit: https://www.mq.edu.au/study/why-study-here/scholarships/scholarshipsn Make use of social media: Along with the traditional staffing methods, technology enables us to exploit various search platforms in social media and hence should be used. For instance, LinkedIn, CareerBuilder, Twitter, Indeed and so on help a recruiter to seek out candidates. Social networking also helps in reaching out to a larger audience faster with respect to the traditional hiring system. You have an access to larger pools of candidates and a better connect with the job aspirants. Moreover, you are not geographically limited either, reason being, the talent seeker can search domestically, even internationally with the help of social connect.

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(The writer is GM, HR publicity and promotion, Karam Industries)