The Red Pen to host International Boarding School Fair

Media Release
November 4, 2019

New Delhi, Nov 4: The Red Pen, a global education consulting firm, headquartered in Mumbai, along with Linden Educational Services - a US based global boarding school admissions marketing firm and Crayons Academy for Skills Excellence (CASE) - a Delhi based skills development and career counselling firm, are hosting an International boarding school fair in Gurgaon on 6th November 2019 at ‘The Leela’ in Gurgaon.

Kimberly Dixit, CEO and Co-founder at The Red Pen explains, “The Red Pen team has always taken great pride in our homegrown brand, which is reputed for its customised, signature advisory services. There is an increasing trend of parents in India sending their children to international boarding schools, as they recognize the value of preparing them for future education at top global universities. We are excited to be partnering with a world-renowned firm like Linden to offer a platform for Indian students to access a premium, global boarding school education.”

Since their inception in 2011, The Red Pen has supported over 5000 students with admission to best-fit institutions around the world – whether Ivy League universities, M7 business programmes, global management and technical master’s programmes, specialised colleges, small liberal arts institutions and recently boarding schools.

‘Linden has been an avant-garde leader and trusted advisor in global admissions for almost 40 years and has worked with over 450 boarding schools worldwide. In the upcoming fair, parents and aspiring students will have the opportunity to interact one-on-one with my team and me. Since we visit and inspect these schools annually and know their Headmasters and faculty and understand their ethos, we can help families get an in-depth perspective on curriculum and school facilities. The intention is to enable each student to make informed decisions about their future education,” says John A. Williamson - Executive Director, Linden Educational Services.

Linden’s strength lies in over 35 years of continual expertise and local presence in India and other cities internationally. Their collective experiences provide families with strategic advantages they need to successfully gain access to some of the most revered educational institutions across the globe.

The fair will have representatives from over 25 international boarding schools across the US, UK and Canada.

India is the second largest student market globally with nearly 750,000students studying overseas. 

Vikram Anand, CEO, CASE says, ‘Our in-depth experience of working with students in their formative years to develop their intellectual and athletic potential gives us the strategic advantage to be able to provide access to the right demographic profile of students and their families for this fair.”

Case is the on-ground promotion partner for this boarding school event.

For additional information on the boarding school fair please log on to  https://theredpen.in/ 

and to register you can log onto https://theredpen.in/boarding-schools-fair/  

About:

1. The Red Pen

The Red Pen is an independent education consulting company that advises applicants to identify best-fit educational options at the school, university or postgraduate level. Additionally, they help high schools develop student-focused, scalable university counselling infrastructure that addresses the academic needs of varied communities. The 70+ member team is led by partners Dr. Kimberly Wright Dixit and Namita Mehta. Consultants with diverse backgrounds, who possess a wealth of education, experience and knowledge, represent the company’s strong foundation.

2. Linden Educational Services

Established in 1982, Linden offers an immersive approach to recruitment, admissions and marketing for universities. Boarding schools and universities have come to trust Linden's comprehensive, strategic, and forward-thinking education expertise in Indian and other International markets. They have a qualified, talented group of  admissions professionals whose collective experiences provide families with strategic advantages they need to successfully gain access to some of the most revered educational institutions across the globe.

3. Crayons Academy for Skills Excellence (CASE)

CASE is a Sports Recruitment Counselling firm for Students aspiring to seek admission to Colleges anywhere in the world.  We identify, develop and guide students seeking to play varsity sports, specifically popular sports in India which are also Varsity sports in Colleges such as Soccer, Tennis, Golf, Squash, Track & Field, Swimming, for both Men’s & Women’s.   Besides navigating the admission process as a student-athlete, foreign students face a challenging task of showcasing their ability to college coaches in USA, Canada, UK, Europe and Australia.  Our long-standing relationships with these coaches and thorough knowledge of the process helps bridge this gap. 

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May 26,2020

The Department of Business Administration organised a Webinar on Career Planning and Development for the Under Graduate and PUC students of various colleges on 23 May 2020. Sr Dr Venissa A.C, Principal, inaugurated the programme and conveyed her best wishes. Mr Abhilash K, Managing Director of Abhijnya Education Private Limited was the Resource speaker.

Mr Abhilash said that a student should assess themselves, evaluate their career skills, set career goals in order to implement and maximise their career plan. He listed out the various courses available after completion of PUC/Degree. He also said that the students need to create their own future, assess their strengths, build personality and explore various options available to build their own career. He gave a few tips on how to prepare for the various competitive exams and manage time.

The Webinar had 125 participants from various colleges who actively participated by asking their doubts on Career Planning. The programme was conducted on Google Meet. Dr Neethu Suraj, Assistant Professor of BBA welcomed the Resource speaker and the participants, Mr Elson Dsouza Assistant Professor of BBA delivered the vote of thanks and Mrs Sabina Dsouza HOD of BBA coordinated the programme.

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March 18,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 18: Master of Computer Applications (MCA) programme which was started as a 3 years programme at St Aloysius College in 1999 has become 2 years programme from the academic year 2020-21.

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in its new guidelines has recommended the duration of the programme to 2 years.  This was the long term desire of hundreds of students who wanted to pursue their higher education in Computer Applications / Information Technology domain.  The new guidelines will come in effect from the new academic year 2020-21 and has given an add on advantage to the current final year BCA, BSc and other discipline students who would like to pursue their MCA studies. 

St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangaluru has a rich tradition of training the leaders from 140 years, with NAAC A grade 3.62; the MCA programme being the first post-graduate programme of St Aloysius College, has a history of 21 years training hundreds of professionals to the IT Industry. Since 2007 the college has been granted the Autonomous status, which enables the college to update the curriculum as per the need and the requirements of the IT Industry and several such revisions were done in the past.  After the AICTE’s announcement of 2 years of MCA it’s the first college in the state to release the new curriculum with the inputs from Industry-Academia-Research-Innovation teams India and abroad. 

Features of the AIMIT MCA    

·       Complete Choice based credit system programme where the students can select the subjects of his / her choice

·       The syllabus is up to date with the latest trends such as Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Mobile Application Development, Data Science and Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Deep Learning, Internet of Things, Augmented and Virtual Reality etc.

·       It has enhanced its technology based applications such as Android, React, Python, Node.js, Angular.js, .NET core, ios- Swift, Etherium, Hadoop, Map Reduce, Scala, Spark, Tableau.

·       Mentoring and Coaching of Entrepreneurship / Startups through a Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Advanced Entrepreneurship courses from National Entrepreneurship Network- Wadhwani Foundation

·       Experience and motivated faculty members to guide / mentor the Teaching, Learning and Research / Innovation at the Dept

·       Certificationsunder the Industry-Academia collaboration – From Salesforce, Mulesoft, IBM, vmware, The Hindu STEP, Amazon AWS certification, Dell-EMC Support in Cloud and Big Data

·       Infosys supported InfyTQ, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Analytics support

·       Institute Innovation Council (IIC) supported activities to enhance the innovation initiatives.

·       Use of blended classroom approach – i.e the Mix of Lecture – Tutorial – Video Lectures – Demos – Video Conference Lectures – Invited address by the Expert

·       Mini Projects with technologies will create interest and enthusiasm to solve the real time problem

·       Laboratory facilities / Library facility with Books both Hard copies and Digital Library support

·       Motivation and support to the interested students to participate and present papers in the National and International Conferences / Seminars and participation in various workshops.

·       Support and Motivation to participate in various Inter Colligate Fests, Competitions, Hackathones,

·       Encourages students to participate in various Sports events at the University / State / national levels.

Benefits of the AIMIT MCA     

·       The MCA programme enable a person with completely Industry ready technologies and skills essential to the current market requirements.

·       The programme has a great demand for getting good jobs in India and abroad as its focusing on latest technologies, it can easily bridge the gap for the requirements of new talents in the Industry.

·       Along with technology, MCA programme will motivate the candidate to work on his personality skills and communication skills.

·       Final semester is completely dedicated to the Industry Internship / Project work which will give an opportunity for the candidates to work closely with the Industry. 

·       The candidate will be ready to take up an idea and to go for a startup of his own.E-Summit and Entrepreneurship Development programmes will give an opportunity to interact with various successful Entrepreneurs from various industries

·       The student is getting trained as a Leader through hosting several events internally at the Dept such as EpITome- national Level IT and Engineering Fest; SACAIM – International Conference on Advanced IT, Engineering and Management; Infovision – IT Exhibition; Workshop and Seminars; Cultural events at the Dept.  

·       The Industry Visits will give an exposure to the candidate to understand the various roles, responsibilities and opportunities in the relevant field.

·       Opportunity to work on Business Consultancy projects (BCP) make the person more practical and strong in problem solving and map the business requirements with the systems developed.

·       Industry-Academia Interface classes by the Project managers of a company specially on Functional Programming is an add on advantage to work on these technologies practically

Placements opportunities for AIMIT MCA     

The institute has a strong track record of placements, as it has given the placements to hundreds of students every year to join the IT Companies as Software Developer, Quality Analyst, Delivery Specialists, System Engineer, Database administrator, Mobile App Developer, Web Developer, Data Scientist, Big Data Analytics Specialist, Machine Learning Professional, etc.  Its alumni strength itself is a greatest advantage, “Connecting Dots with the Alumni” is a programme at the Department which will connect the present students with the alumni to discuss on various technologies.

Placements from leading companies such as – UniCourt, JDA, Tech Jini, Maventic, BOSCH, Amazon, TCS, CRISIL, ITC Infotech, DXC Technology, IBM, Mtric Stream,  MResults, Atalantic Data Services, Salesforce, Mulesoft, Yokagawa, Open Text, Impetus, Riskonect and others.

Eligibility Criteria :

As per AICTE the eligibility criteria for the 2 years of MCA is as follows :

Passed BCA/ Bachelor Degree in Computer Science /Engineering or equivalent Degree.

OR

Passed B.Sc./ B.Com./ B.A. with Mathematics at 10+2 Level or at Graduation Level (with additional bridge Courses as per the norms of the concerned University).

Obtained at least 50% marks (45% marks in case ofcandidates belonging to reserved category) in the Qualifying Examination.

For Admissions to contact:

School of Information Technology
St Aloysius College (Autonomous)
Beeri Campus, Kotekar post
Mangalore 575022
DK, Karnataka
Call : 0824-2286881 / 9141201855
Email : [email protected]
Website :www.aimit.edu.in

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