DU opens admissions for Undergraduate professional courses

The Delhi University has announced the admission for under-graduate professional courses in Bachelor of Business Studies, Bachelor of Financial and Investment Analysis and B.A. (Honours) Business Economics for all aspiring students who want to seek admission and can register themselves online from April 4 onwards.

The registration window will continue till May 4. Three websites are available for the admissionprocedure - www.south.du.ac.in/fassh, http://dducollege.du.ac.in and www.sscbsdu.ac.in. The USP of the admission procedure is the online format including registration and payment of fees in a bid to save paper wastage and go green. Theprospectus too is available in the online format. The fees can be paid online through credit card and net banking.

The combined entrance examination will be held on June 5 in Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Kolkata. This is the second consecutive year a commonentrance examination is being held for the three courses. The results will be declared on June 25.

In case students encounter difficulties while filling the online admission form, they can write to admissionhelpdesk@gmail.com and call dedicated telephone lines- 011-45108880/81/82/83. Help desks will also be set up at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Ram Lal Anand College (evening), S.G.T.B. Khalsa College and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.

The facility of cash deposit at post offices and designated branches of Axis Bank has also been provided.

Admission to all three courses is based on equal weightage for Class XII marks and the score in the entrance test. Group discussion and personal interview are additional components for admission to the BBSS and BFIA courses.

The BBS course with 277 seats is available at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Keshav Mahavidyalaya and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies while the B.A. (Hons.) Business Economics with 550 seats is being offered at Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, College of Vocational Studies, Gargi College, Lakshmibai College, Maharaja Agrasen College, RLA College (Evening), S.G.G.S. College of Commerce, S.G.N.D. Khalsa College, S.G. T.B. Khalsa Colelge and Shivaji College.

The BFIA course which has 62 seats is available only at the Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.

source:http://www.indiaedunews.net/Today/DU_opens_admissions_for_Undergraduate_professional_courses_13791/

UK: Unions march for alternative economic choices and growth

EI’s British member organisations are backing their national Trades Union Congress (TUC) call for action and will join a March for the Alternative on 26 March.

The National Union of Teachers, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, and the University and College Union, will join other public and private sector unions in a national day of action.

They have supported calls from the TUC General Secretary, Brendan Barber, who said “the brutal austerity measures being implemented in Britain, on the back of a series of myths, half-truths and distortions have poisoned our public debate.”

Like Barber, EI’s affiliates in the UK believe that “the government's answer – to slash public spending with reckless speed – is based not on a sound reading of the evidence, but on an ideological zeal to shrink the size of the state,” and that “the so-called reforms in the National Health Service and education threaten the fundamental character of our public realm.”

Teacher unionists consider the Conservative Government’s decision to “spend more on servicing debt interest than on educating our children is just plain wrong” and wish to break down “the myths used by the government to justify its deep, rapid and unfair cuts and set out the case for an alternative based on jobs, investment and growth.”

According to the TUC, four myths exist: that the deficit was caused by out-of-control public spending; without drastic cuts, Britain would become the next Greece; Britain is like a household that has ‘maxed out’ on its credit card, and though it is a great sound bite, and one that the public can easily understand, that there is no alternative.

Barber noted that there is a “need to make jobs and growth the priority, keeping people in work, keeping tax revenues flowing, limiting the huge social costs of unemployment. And rather than swingeing cuts, we need a much more prominent role for progressive taxes - not least on the City and the bankers who caused this mess.”

EI supports the British TUC’s campaign, and calls on all teachers to join the major demonstration planned to take place on 26 March, with a message that pushes for a “genuine alternative with fair tax, growth and jobs at its heart, resonating with the public.”

source:http://www.ei-ie.org/news/news_details/1716