Under this Agreement, Microsoft will collaborate with NU to facilitate setting up Microsoft Innovation Centre (MIC) with an aim to

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foster the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship amongst University students, by helping them apply their knowledge and technological know-how to real life problems and thus open employment and entrepreneurship avenues for the students.

Microsoft Innovation Centers (MICs) are state of art technology facilities for collaboration on innovative research, technology or software solutions, involving a combination of government, academic and industry participants. While each center tunes its programs to local needs, they all provide similar content and services designed to accelerate technology advances and stimulate local software economies through skills and professional training, industry partnerships and innovation. Since the launch of the programme a total of 29 MICs have been set up in India.

The MIC at NIIT University will be among the other such centers worldwide, facilitating collaboration on IT-based research and development, product development and management, technology advancement, professional training, industry partnerships, placement opportunities, skill management, knowledge transfer and strong industry-institute interactions. The University will get access to key resources such as new platforms and software from Microsoft for the effective functioning of the MIC.

The NIIT University currently offers 4-year BTech programme in three streams: Biotechnology (BT), Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), and Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE). Each stream has a very strong research-focus and industry aligned curriculum.

The University also offers MTech Programmes in Educational Technology, Embedded Solutions & Convergence, Computing & Communications and Bioinformatics; and PhD programmes in all the above disciplines. The University also offers MTech Programme in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Nestled in the foothills of the Aravali range in Neemrana, Rajasthan, the picturesque 100-acre fully residential green campus of NIIT University is equipped with state-of-the-art technology-enabled methodology that’s backed by a strong research-focused curriculum for facilitating a continuous process of learning and development. Since its inception in 2009, NIIT University has made significant progress in research and innovation in curriculum development and design. Conceptualized as an institute of excellence, NIIT University provides exceptional education based on the four Core Principles that make learning industry-linked, technology-based, research-driven and seamless.

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NllT along with Autodesk and a specially constituted Design Advisory Council, set up under the aegis of NIIT University, will be designing the curriculum.

“Just as IT helped India gain global recognition and spurred the growth of the service sector, about a decade ago, “Design Thinking” can be the differentiator that changes the economics of Indian workers and businesses and catalyzes the growth of the knowledge sector,” say’s the NIIT release.

“While the overall objective of this partnership is to promote design thinking in every job role, the programs will also develop skilled manpower for the rapidly growing Computer-aided Design (CAD) industry, which is estimated to grow at CAGR of 13.5 percent by 2015, per a recent report by Technavio,” says George Abraham, Director of Emerging Markets, Autodesk Education.

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Given the heightened interest shown by the students, and to provide additional time for a considered decision, NIIT has decided to extend the dates for the Turning Point Scholarship 2012. The scholarship application forms are available at NIIT education centres across the country. The last date for submission of application form is 30th September 2012. Further, this is a chance for students to enroll for GNIIT admissions, the flagship career program from NIIT, which closes on September 30, 2012 for this academic year. Students can also log on to www.niit.com/scholarships or call 1800 102 6448 for more details.

Over last 21 years, more than 4.8 lakh students have benefited from NIIT’s Scholarship Programmes. The NIIT Turning Point Scholarship is the latest such initiative towards enhancing employability of meritorious students and making them job ready to meet the industry needs. The scholarship is aimed at facilitating meritorious college students and fresh graduates who want to prepare themselves for a successful IT career by enrolling for new GNIIT and Express Diploma programmes.

Speaking on the reason for extending The Turning Point Scholarship, Mr. Amitabh Lahiri, Chief Business Officer, Career Building Solutions, NIIT said, “NIIT has always believed in making cutting-edge professional courses available to meritorious students. Gauging the overwhelming response generated during the launch of the Turning Point scholarship in August, and the requests from students and their parents, we have decided to extend the last date to September 30th, to enable more students to avail of this opportunity for meeting their career aspirations.”

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NIIT MindChampion & World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand interacted with chess aspirants at Dhanmal High School, Kandivili, Mumbai. Anand took the students through the ten years journey of MindChampions Academy and also highlighted the role of chess in academics. There were spirited questions from students on how they could improve upon the game, ways of emerging as a successful chess player etc.

Viswanathan Anand and NIIT MindChampions’ Academy

Viswanathan Anand said, “I feel privileged to be part of this movement that has not only enabled schools to use Chess as an academic tool but has also made it possible for me, personally, to take the legacy of Chess to the children in India. It is heartening to note that this legacy is already beginning to show, with young players like Karthikeyan M who is the world champion in the under 12 category. There are many such young talents like him who make India proud and I am confident that they will script greater success stories in the years to come.”

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Google will provide NIIT with its training curricula and certification standards to offer advanced training programs that are specially designed to create a pool of high quality Google qualified professionals and help young professionals to gain useful skills required in the job market for the online space. The programme will be initially offered in India, and subsequently launched in other parts of the emerging world.

Speaking about the launch Rajan Anandan, VP & Managing Director Google India, said “As the Indian internet market continues to show robust growth, we believe a capacity building program to help young professionals gear up for the opportunity is the need of the hour. Google Web Academy is part of our initiative for emerging Internet economies and we’re very excited to launch this in India first. We’ve been working with NIIT to offer advanced online advertising program and we’re pleased to strengthen our association to offer world-leading training curriculum and certification standards to offer advanced training programs to professionals and students in India.”

The courses offered by NIIT under the Google Web Academy program will include certification programs for online professionals covering topics like search engine marketing, optimizing online presence with web analytics; enhance business productivity with Google products and technologies. Subsequently, the program will also offers technical courses for IT professionals and developers covering topics like building new web and mobile applications using Google technologies, integration across Google products and 3rd party APIs, Web optimization — bandwidth & loading performance, Introduction to cloud computing, including web standards, System integrator — Google Apps for Business, including configuration, deployment and management and Performance tracking & monetization (Google Analytics, SEM).

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The Tax Return Preparers are meant to file returns of individual and HUF income tax assesses as well as file TDS returns of small and medium enterprises in the lower income category. This would be the second batch of TRPs being trained by NIIT. The cost of training will be borne by ITD and the selected candidates will not be required to pay for the training. And the scope now stands widened to include TDS & Service Tax Returns. DIT has further included TRPs as qualified e-returns intermediaries.

Speaking on the occasion, Amitabh Kumar, DIT (PR, PP & OL) Department of Income Tax said, “The Tax Return Preparers Scheme was conceptualized with an objective to simplify the Tax filing procedures for the benefit of the tax payers. Encouraged with the initial success we are pleased to extend the scope this year with NIIT, whose expertise in training delivery, will help create a qualified pool of skilled Tax Return Preparers.”

Launched by the Income Tax Department in 2006, Tax Return Preparer Scheme (TRPS) is aimed at raising the level of awareness and compliance amongst marginal tax payers. The founding objectives include – providing an employment avenue for unemployed or partially employed graduates and reduction the cost of compliance for small tax payers – leading to an increased assessee base for the Government.

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Earlier this year, NIIT had created the Industry Advisory Council (IAC), wherein industry leaders shared their inputs on how GNIIT could be further improved, to help students become future-ready and find suitable placement in the evolving IT industry. The new GNIIT program maximizes career opportunities by offering programs that lead to exit profiles in diverse fields of IT like – Cloud Applications Developer, Enterprise Application Developer, Business Intelligence Solutions Developer, Server Administrator and Network Administrator.

The NIIT’s Cloud Learning Methodology supports group learning through interactive features like 24×7 lab and e-library access, instant tech updates, interaction with faculty and peers and access to online video streams.

The program gives students the benefit of a dual qualification, as this program can be pursued along with graduation. GNIIT is a Credit based Curriculum, designed to offer flexibility to students in learning. In other words, the students will have the flexibility to choose courses as per their interest and career goals.

Apart from technical skills a successful IT professional also needs to have the right attitude, communication skills, work ethics and a host of other personal attributes that play a crucial role in his/her career. GNIIT program also helps with professional practice of a year-long internship. This one year of internship gives exposure to ‘live’ case studies and a stipend that lets them earn-while-they-learn.

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