Students Are Finding It Difficult To Handle Exam Pressure!!

With board exams just around the corner, students are fighting hard to cope up with the pressure that these exams throw at them. Calming nerves and reducing anxiety is their first hurdle. If they cannot overcome this, it may lead to poor academic performance, mental depression and suicidal thoughts. Pressures of poor performance and choosing a career of their choice may be too high on their minds to tackle studies with a stable frame of mind.

To help overcome these tendencies and prepare students to cope with these pressures, we invite readers to share their experiences and opinions regarding examination related stress.

What if you don’t fair well in the exam? What if there is a lot of parental pressure? What if you are not able to pursue your desired career? What if you cannot handle the stress?

If you were once in a similar situation and managed to pull through, share your story with others — who knows, you just might be helping another student cope!

Luxury Management Remains in Style

Rupal Patel took a break from her career as a patent lawyer in Chicago to enroll in an MBA program with a luxury specialization this fall, trading in the Windy City for the sparkling shores of the French Riviera. A student at the International University of Monaco’s business school in Monte Carlo, she is spending the year taking classes with titles such as “Luxury Consumer Behavior” and “Managing Luxury Brands,” and is planning on a career in anti-counterfeiting.

Despite the hit the economy is taking on the luxury industry, Patel is optimistic her degree will give her an edge in the job market when she graduates, she says.

“I think being focused and having a specialization, especially in luxury, makes a person more marketable in this economic climate,” Patel says. “The ultra-wealthy will always buy luxury goods, regardless of the fluctuations in the economy, so that kind of gives us some hope.”

Patel is one of a growing number of students who, despite the uncertain times, are setting their sights on a career in the luxury sector. In the past decade or so, more and more schools, many based in Europe, have started to offer MBA degrees in luxury-brand management. The programs, which give students the chance to specialize in sectors such as fragrance and cosmetics and wine and spirits, have become increasingly popular as top luxury brands have seen double-digit increases in profits in recent years.

But with sales of big-ticket items such as Champagne, designer handbags, and watches expected to slide this year, the outlook is not quite as rosy. Analysts at Bain & Co. said in a recent report that global luxury sales could slide by as much as 7% in 2009, while analysts at UBS are predicting a 5% revenue decline. Despite these gloomy forecasts, applications to luxury MBA programs are on the upswing, with students betting the luxury industry will bounce back, according to a number of schools that specialize in the area.

RISING ENROLLMENT

Applications have also doubled this fall at the International University of Monaco’s Monaco Business School, which started a master’s in luxury goods and services and an MBA with a specialization in luxury management several years ago. There are 38 students in the master’s program and about 12 MBA students concentrating in luxury. Sandrine Ricard, the associate dean, says the school started the programs in part because a growing number of companies were demanding managers with more specialized skills and understanding of the luxury market.
In addition, more mainstream brands are starting to develop luxury product lines, further fueling the demand for expertise in the sector, Ricard says.

“You can have the best product ever, with top quality and a very high price, but that still doesn’t make it a luxury product. There’s something a little magic about a luxury brand,” she says. “You have to be initiated and understand how it works. It’s a lot more specialized and complex than it seems.”

By  Alison Damast

                                                                                                                 

UGC plans big changes in education

Now students may be able to pursue courses in segments in universities as per their preferences if the recommendations of a UGC committee on academic reforms are accepted by the institutions.A committee, set up by the University Grants Commission, has suggested a slew of reforms, including credit accumulation and transfer, semester system and taking feedback about teachers’ performance from the students.

The recommendation on credit accumulation and transfer will help students to pursue courses in segments in universities as per their choice.

“The committee has recommended a number of academic and administrative reforms to be followed by the universities. We are now examining these suggestions,” UGC Chairman Professor Sukhadeo Thorat told PTI.

The committee has suggested the universities to start credit accumulation and transfer system. It recommended that each academic programme should have certain credits, and the student can complete part of the programme in a specific university and accumulate certain credits from there. The rest of the course can be pursued from another university to complete the course.

“This will facilitate students mobility at national and international level also. For this, the institutions should have credit transfer system and agreement for students’ exchange,” Thorat said.

As per the system, a student can also do a course in parts in various departments within an institute.

If the credit system is introduced, marks will be changed to grade and students will be awarded grades like A, B, C and D depending on their performance.

The recommendations have come at a time when the UGC is planning to launch a scheme to facilitate M Phil and PhD students to do part of their coursework outside the university where they are pursuing studies.

Besides, the committee suggested that universities should introduce semester system instead of annual examinations. Currently, the central universities in the country including Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University have semester system.

The committee is of the view that the institutions should not focus more on written tests but on continuous assessment.

The commitee also suggested the institutions to take feedback from students about the performance of teachers.  Students are the best judge to assess teachers, it said. 

Sakaal Education Fair

Hey guys thanks for your support and participation for YQworld sakaal event. It was an education exhibition aim towards the youth to guide and updated them on educational grounds. The event was held over for 5 days  from 26^th Nov till 30^th nov.  With so many Colleges and institute participating, 

 

  Ø      Integrid Media ( Y& Q) That’s us.

Ø      ICFAI

Ø      SIEC Sonya International

Ø      Sumeru Academy of Digital Arts

Ø      Campus France

Ø      JetKing

Ø      NIMS

Ø      Spidernet (Animation and More)

Ø      Hindustan Aero Space

Ø      Pune Institute of Management & Research

Ø      Pride Institute of Hospitality

Ø      Avalon Aviation Academy

Ø      Kompass Aviation

Ø      NIIT Imperia

Ø      State Bank of India

Ø      Sinhgad Technical Education Society

and many others.

We had our Yqworld contest where audience were asked few simple question and rewarded with T-shirts and Dg cams. Many were able to answer and few were not and our targets were those few who were not.  

 We had our 5-6 representative at our stall at any given time who were talking to the students and showing them our website on the big projectors and laptops that we had installed.

Internet was connected and students were asked to surf on it and look for the education and career information, aim was to see the searching pattern that students follow, so we can understand and make changes and build our website accordingly and also showed them how easy it is to find info on www.yqworld.com.

We were able to help and educate the youth on present education and career environment, through the exhibition we came across so many prospects and were able to reach our youth (TG) on ground level and got an opportunity to speak and survey them in person to know what are the difficulties that students are facing regarding which studies to take up, career, information on universities, institute. 

We made the notes of all the questions, problems faced by students and quires that we got over 5 days of the exhibition and worked on it to design our website www.yqworld.com in such a way that it gives out quality and relevant info to our users. We came also came across students who has difficulties in choosing the right career, so we also created our own exclusive Aptitude test design taking which a student can have a better understanding of which career are they more suited in.

It was an amazing education exhibition and we are proud that we were part of it. And we are glad that we were able to help our youth and solve their problems and look forward to keep doing that in future with www.yqworld.com

We also looking forward to participate in many other such Education exhibition.

Thank you.