The Centre for Executive Education at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, is organising a leadership programme — Transformational Leadership: Tapping into your personal DNA. The basis for this programme is an intense 20-year action-research into the nature of learning and thinking, achieved by interviewing Nobel laureates, over 100 CEOs, successful athletes, musicians, psychologists, brain researchers, and spiritual leaders | Eligibility: Managing Directors and CEOs, Presidents, heads in charge of business divisions and entrepreneurs. Fee: `1,50,000 plus tax.
When: February 2 – 6, 2015.
How to apply: Download the application form from the website
and send filled-in forms to the institute along with a demand draft or cheque in favour of ‘Indian School of Business’ payable at Hyderabad.
Last date of admission: January 26, 2015 | Website: www.isb.edu
Social Media Marketing
Ads4Growth, a web marketing company based in Gurgaon, is organising Social Media Marketing programme. Concepts of new age social media marketing will be taught with hands-on training. You will learn to promote brand, build communities and followers, sell and generate leads and measure the effectiveness of your efforts | Eligibility: Open to all | Fee: `15,730 | When: January 13, 2015. Number of seats: First-come-first-serve-basis.
How to apply: Register online.
Last date of admission: January 12, 2015 | Website: www.ads4growth.com/social-media-marketing-training
Measure Disparities in Healthcare
Michigan Public Health Training Center of University of Michigan, US, is offering an online course in Measuring Health Disparities. This course focuses on some basic issues for public health practice like how to understand, define and measure health disparity. This computer-based course provides a durable tool that is useful to daily activities in the practice of public health.
Eligibility: Practitioners across all sectors of the public health and related workforce. Those with a background in statistics, epidemiology, or other related sciences will have an edge | Fee: Free | When: Self-paced interactive course | How to apply: Register online.
Last date of admission: Admissions are open now | Website: www.practice.sph.umich.edu/mphtc/site.php?module=courses_one_online_course&id=247
Investment Analysis
The World Bank e-Institute is offering an e-learning course in Economic Analysis of Investments. This is a course that will provide participants the opportunity to learn the basic concepts of
economic analysis, identify appropriate tools for economic analysis, use economic analysis on development projects and think critically about ongoing development projects.
Eligibility: Policy makers, academics, representatives of donor agencies and civil society organisations, students of development economics. Fee: Free | When: January 5 – 30, 2015.
How to apply: Register online | Last date of admission: December 22. Website: www.einstitute.worldbank.org/ei/course/economic-analysis-projects
Digital Pedagogies in Education
Taaleem College of International Studies, Mohali, Punjab, is offering an online course — Post Graduate Certificate in Digital Pedagogies in Education. The course will focus on emerging information and communication technologies in the education sector. Admissions will be based on a written test and personal interview.
Eligibility: Those with Bachelor’s and Master’s with good English language proficiency can apply. You need to have an IELTS score of 6.5 or TOEFL score of atleast 550.
Fee: `1,37,500 (Scholarships and loans are available) | When: It is a 32-week course. How to apply: Register online at anytime as admissions are open around the year. Website: www.taaleem.edu.in/online-mba-pgc-in-digital-pedagogies.html
International Trade Management
Federation of Indian Export Organisations, Chennai, is offering a Diploma in International Trade Management in Chennai. The course is structured to provide a comprehensive view of the global business scenario, latest developments taking place in the market and adoption of contemporary business strategy models for penetration in the markets among other business aspects.
Eligibility: Middle-level professionals and aspiring
students | When: Classes will start first week of January 2015. Classes will be held on weekends | How to apply: You can call 0 9551733765 or email snazurudeen@fieo.org. Last date of admission: Advisable to apply by December 30 | Website: www.fieo.org
Emergency Responders
University of Albany School of Public Health, US, is offering an online short course on
Personal Safety and Health for Emergency
Responders. This course will help an emergency responder understand the types of dangers that may be encountered in a disaster setting, common injuries and other health impacts that can be sustained during an emergency response | Eligibility: Volunteer responders, members of the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) and Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), Staff members of public health departments, hospitals, and community health clinics. Police personnel, firefighters, and EMS can also go for this programme.
Fee: Free and open to the public.
When: Ongoing.
How to apply: Register online.
Website: www.ualbanycphp.org/learning/default.cfm