PG Diploma course in Insurance

AFTER INTRODUCING a highly successful Diploma course in Insurance, the St. Francis College, Begumpet, is offering a PG Diploma in Insurance from this academic year for those who wish to seek a career in the productive insurance sector.

With private parties all set to enter the insurance sector, there is a likelihood of huge openings for qualified persons and this course is drafted to prepare such professionals, according to the college management.

The PG Diploma is being offered in assistance with the College of Insurance and Financial Planning. Apart from Insurance, the course would cover other related areas like Risk Management, Capital Market and Financial Services, which have gained importance in the era of liberalisation.

The quality of the course content is assured, given the academic standards maintained by the college, which is one of the only two colleges to have five-star accreditation in the State. Moreover, the academic assistance is being given by the College of Insurance and Financial Planning.

Offered in two semesters, the nine-month course contains 160 hours of classroom teaching and a mandatory project work. Students have to start the project during the second term and seminar presentation of the project has to be given within two months from the completion of the second term examination. The course is open to both girls and boys with a maximum intake of 50.

The first semester includes Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance, Principals and Practice of Life and Health Insurance- I, Marketing and Service Marketing and Fundamentals of Personal Financial Planning while the second term has Principles and Practice of General Insurance, Principles and Practice of Life Insurance-II and Planning for Retirement Needs, Principles of Macro Economics, Investment Analysis and Management, Computer Applications in Insurance and project work.

Ph.D entrance

AFTER A long wait, the Osmania University has issued the notification for Ph.D entrance to the delight of aspirants. The university introduced an entrance test for Ph.D aspirants from last year abolishing the earlier concept of getting a direct entry into the course after completion of M.Phil or publication of two articles in recognised journals.

But, the students aspiring to pursue Ph.D are seeking for relaxation of some rules. They want the university to give admission to all the students who clear the entrance test irrespective of the availability of Guides. "There is severe shortage of Guides in the university as most of the teachers are ineligible to guide the students in their Ph.D. The eligible teachers are overburdened", points out an aspirant.

However, with several teachers promoted as professors recently, the university hopes that the burden on the existing Guides would be relaxed.

Online admission

TECHNOLOGY SEEMS to be sweeping the administration of the universities in the State. The cumbersome procedure of applying, standing in serpentine queues and the time consuming verification would be a thing of the past in the Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University (JNTU) if their plans fructify.

The JNTU plans to make its admission procedure online and the work is on in this direction. According the officials, if things work out, applications can be downloaded from the net and students can apply online as well.

Finally, the university wants to conduct its annual tests online. The technology would be used first in the university colleges in Hyderabad, Kakinada and Anantapur and later extend it to other constituent colleges.

OU stand pays off

THE ADAMANT stand taken by the Osmania University seems to be finally paying off. The second semester examinations started off peacefully sans any protest by the students, who boycotted the first semester examinations protesting against the new system.

The university, however, did not relent despite the mass boycott. Several students lost valuable attendance during the boycott of classes against the semester system. Now, most of them have been denied hall tickets as they failed to record the pre-requisite 75 per cent attendance.

R. RAVIKANTH REDDY

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