http://www.diversityabroad.com/index.php?option=com_jb2&view=rss description http://www.diversityabroad.com/index.php?option=com_jb2&view=post&PostID=1111 It’s almost the weekend again, but I feel the need to talk about last weekend before it’s too late! It all started on a hot, sunny Friday afternoon....eight friends and I hopped on the tram to El Campello, a little town about a half hour away. We walked to Los Baños de la Reina; the Queen’s baths, small thermal baths from the Roman era. It was gorgeous; the waves were feisty, but jumping in that cool water was a perfect break from the beating sun. We also had the area to ourselves for a few hours, so we spread out on the rocky cliffs with our towels, iPod speakers and snacks and just chilled out. I’m not a very strong swimmer, so I was pretty nervous jumping off the cliff at first, but my friends made a circle in the water so that I’d have a human safety net, just in case. I didn’t end up needing it, but the thought of it helped me move my legs to JUMP. That night (after a siesta), we had a good ol’ girls fiesta at mi casa and danced the night away. The next day we all went to Tabarca, a small island that is the largest inhabited island in the region of Valencia. We made the trip with The Flying Cruiser, which was awesome! We took a 45-minute speedboat ride to the island, bumping to jams while jumping over waves. Que divertido! Then, we anchored just off the shore of the island and jumped into the water to snorkel! It was beautiful--clear waters and tons of fish! One of our friends, Sara, had a waterproof camera and took awesome underwater pics of all of us. I can’t wait to see them! A few of us asked Pablo (our speed boat driver/cool guide) to take us to the caves next and four of us swam through some Mediterranean caves. To say it was awesome is an understatement. The cave walls and roof looked so beautiful that it all looked fake. The water was definitely colder, but there was a little skylight that let sunshine rays through, so we stood in that spot for a while to warm up. Sunday was a rest day--until night fell lol. We chilled at my friends Jessica and Jaya’s apartment, then everyone went out. I went back home and then joined them again around 6:30 am to watch the sunrise at the beach. A bunch of USAC kids were there; lots of them drunk, lots of them knocked out but all of us happy as clams. I’m going to miss this bunch =/. http://www.diversityabroad.com/index.php?option=com_jb2&view=post&PostID=1477  Note to Italian men: if you didn't stare at us like you've never seen a woman before and didn't dress more feminine than I do, you might actually be attractive. All the gelled hair and designer sunglasses makes me want to throw up. Not to mention... PLEASE for the sake of us all would you wear some deodorant???    quite envious of all the Mercedes, BMWs, and Audis driving around. Anyone want to shed some light on European's love for hatchbacks?  My first day, so clearly I want to try some pizza! I got prosciutto, mozzarella, and zucchini.it was delicious and less than 5Euros.  We toured the Coliseum, and like most Americans I'm sure I was thinking about the Hollywood version of the gladiator with beautiful Russell Crowe the entire time. I'm positive our tour guide wanted to ring our necks with our silly, American college girl attitudes. I'm not sure she approved of our clothing choices or the questions we asked her.  http://www.diversityabroad.com/index.php?option=com_jb2&view=post&PostID=1478  Note to Italian men: if you didn't stare at us like you've never seen a woman before and didn't dress more feminine than I do, you might actually be attractive. All the gelled hair and designer sunglasses makes me want to throw up. Not to mention... PLEASE for the sake of us all would you wear some deodorant???    quite envious of all the Mercedes, BMWs, and Audis driving around. Anyone want to shed some light on European's love for hatchbacks?  My first day, so clearly I want to try some pizza! I got prosciutto, mozzarella, and zucchini.it was delicious and less than 5Euros.  We toured the Coliseum, and like most Americans I'm sure I was thinking about the Hollywood version of the gladiator with beautiful Russell Crowe the entire time. I'm positive our tour guide wanted to ring our necks with our silly, American college girl attitudes. I'm not sure she approved of our clothing choices or the questions we asked her.  http://www.diversityabroad.com/index.php?option=com_jb2&view=post&PostID=1479 It’s almost the weekend again, but I feel the need to talk about last weekend before it’s too late! It all started on a hot, sunny Friday afternoon....eight friends and I hopped on the tram to El Campello, a little town about a half hour away. We walked to Los Baños de la Reina; the Queen’s baths, small thermal baths from the Roman era. It was gorgeous; the waves were feisty, but jumping in that cool water was a perfect break from the beating sun. We also had the area to ourselves for a few hours, so we spread out on the rocky cliffs with our towels, iPod speakers and snacks and just chilled out. I’m not a very strong swimmer, so I was pretty nervous jumping off the cliff at first, but my friends made a circle in the water so that I’d have a human safety net, just in case. I didn’t end up needing it, but the thought of it helped me move my legs to JUMP. That night (after a siesta), we had a good ol’ girls fiesta at mi casa and danced the night away. The next day we all went to Tabarca, a small island that is the largest inhabited island in the region of Valencia. We made the trip with The Flying Cruiser, which was awesome! We took a 45-minute speedboat ride to the island, bumping to jams while jumping over waves. Que divertido! Then, we anchored just off the shore of the island and jumped into the water to snorkel! It was beautiful--clear waters and tons of fish! One of our friends, Sara, had a waterproof camera and took awesome underwater pics of all of us. I can’t wait to see them! A few of us asked Pablo (our speed boat driver/cool guide) to take us to the caves next and four of us swam through some Mediterranean caves. To say it was awesome is an understatement. The cave walls and roof looked so beautiful that it all looked fake. The water was definitely colder, but there was a little skylight that let sunshine rays through, so we stood in that spot for a while to warm up. Sunday was a rest day--until night fell lol. We chilled at my friends Jessica and Jaya’s apartment, then everyone went out. I went back home and then joined them again around 6:30 am to watch the sunrise at the beach. A bunch of USAC kids were there; lots of them drunk, lots of them knocked out but all of us happy as clams. I’m going to miss this bunch =/. http://www.diversityabroad.com/index.php?option=com_jb2&view=post&PostID=1476   IIBF Established in 1928 as a Company under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act, 1913, Indian Institute of Banking & Finance (IIBF), formerly known as The Indian Institute of Bankers (IIB), is a professional body of banks, financial institutions and their employees in India. With its membership of over 700 banks and financial institutions as institutional members and about 300000 of their employees as individual members, IIBF is the largest Institute of its kind in the world and is working with a Mission “to develop professionally qualified and competent bankers and finance professionals primarily through a process of education, training, examination, consultancy/counseling and continuing professional development programmes”.   DIPLOMA IN BANKING & FINANCE   ABOUT THE DIPLOMA There will be a growing demand for qualified manpower for the banking and finance sector in the coming years on account of expansion of volume of business and large scale retirement of personnel. Banking and finance industry will require professionally qualified manpower endowed with banking and finance knowledge and skills together with technology-familiarity, customer-orientation and hands-on application skills who can be assigned to various desks / jobs with minimal training intervention at the bank level. ELIGIBILITY 12th Pass. MEDIUM OF EXAMINATION The examination will be conducted in English Medium only. PATTERN OF EXAMINATION Each Question Paper will contain approximately 120 objective types multiple choice questions, carrying 100 marks including questions based on case study / case lets. The Institute may, however, vary the number of questions to be asked for a subject. There will NOT be negative marking of wrong answers. Questions for the Examination will be asked calling for: (a) Knowledge testing, (b) Conceptual grasp, (c) Analytical / logical exposition, (d) Problem solving, (e) Case analysis Examination will be held in on three consecutive Sundays (one paper each Sunday). Information about mode of examination (online / offline) and centres will be provided along with Examination Application Form. DURATION OF EXAMINATION The duration of the examination will be of 2 hours. In case of offline examination, before the commencement of the examination, there will be briefing about how to write the examination. PERIODICITY AND EXAMINATION CENTRES The examination will be conducted normally twice a year in May / June and November / December on Sundays. A list of Examination centers will be provided along with the Examination Application Form. TIME LIMIT FOR PASSING THE EXAMINATION Candidates will be required to pass the examination within a time limit of 2 years (i.e. 2 blocks of 2 consecutive attempts). Initially a candidate will have to pay course fee which includes CBS learning and first 2 attempts examination fee. In case a candidate is not able to pass examination in the first 2 attempts, candidate should necessarily submit the Examination Application form for the second block of 2 attempts, without any gap on payment of requisite examination fee. If they do not submit the examination form immediately after exhausting the first 2 attempts, the examination conducted will be counted as 3rd attempt for the purpose of time limit for passing. Candidates not able to pass examination within the stipulated time period of two years are required to re-enroll themselves afresh by submitting a fresh Examination Application Form. Such candidates will not be granted credit/s for subject/s passed, if any, earlier http://www.diversityabroad.com/index.php?option=com_jb2&view=post&PostID=1475  India has always been known as land of knowledge since ancient times. It has been a source of inspiration for many a great thinkers and philosophers. The Indian education system produces thousands of students every year who complete their matriculation or 10+2 examinations with hopes of getting an admission to the colleges of their choice from university colleges list. A list of universities and colleges is one of the major indicators of what the admission pattern is. The growth of Indian economy has opened many new vistas for jobs, which has only added to the need of trained manpower within various industries. These colleges impart professional training in varied disciplines such as Engineering, Medicine, Arts and Science, Management Studies to name a few. For those who aspire to pursue post-graduation courses there are reputed colleges like IIMs, IITs. Besides these, some also offer vocational training programs. Colleges like St.Stephen's College, Delhi, Presidency College, Kolkata; St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, Symbosis Society's College of Arts and Commerce, Pune will always be a part of list of top colleges in India. The decision of students in choosing a college is influenced by factors such as performance, placement, fees and even alumni. Types of universities that exist in India are private, state, deemed, and central. Every state has atleast one of the above mentioned types and have engineering, science, medical, arts and many other colleges under them. Some of them even have a tie-up with renowned international universities to attract more students. Of late, foreign universities have also entered India and the quality of education has improved tremendously. Some of them have earned global reputation for their quality educational programs. A list of top universities in India would be incomplete without the names like Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai; Anna University Chennai; Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Institutes like IIM, IIT although not under any university can award degrees due to their status of being autonomous universities. Education in India- Get Information on Indian education system, colleges in india and Universities in India as well as admissions information to all colleges in Indian states provided by maps of india. Here is your list of universities and colleges. Go ahead choose the one that suits you. http://www.diversityabroad.com/index.php?option=com_jb2&view=post&PostID=1105 My classmates and I have been fortunate enough to be able to read novels and poems written by French and Russian authors that revealed to us French and Russian culture. I was able to find many similarities between French and Russian culture through the character’s lives in the novels and the films that we watched. Eastern and Western cultures, because I was inclined to belief they were polar opposites, became more relatable from the textual standpoint. It seemed like both the Easter and Western worlds were fighting for the same thing, idol status and power. Russia was striving hard to make St. Petersburg the window to the Western world and Paris was working towards being the model for what a modern city is. As we walked through the places that the authors spoke about, first in Paris and next in Moscow, I found that there was a disconnect between what was described in our texts and what I was actually seeing. The reliability that I once felt between French and Russian culture quickly disappeared. Yes I feel like Haussmann’s prophecy about Paris came true but what occurred in Paris does not seem to have manifested itself in the same way in Moscow. Moscow is a great city, comparable to the booming small city in America-everything in the center of the city with nothing else to look forward to outside of that, but nothing can surpass the modern city that Paris is. My final concluding though/question is, since Paris and Moscow (two great cities) ended up looking so different, were their objectives/goals really ever the same?  спасибо (Spbasiba) (Thank you in Russian)  My favorite thing about Paris for this week is Diversity. Going to Moscow (very Asian/European) has helped me to appreciate the diversity that exists in Paris. I was very uncomfortable (my other black friends were too) with the staring and people constantly taking photos of us. My trip to Moscow was a little unsettling, but being back in Paris makes me feel safe and at home again. Cheers to diversity abroad! http://www.diversityabroad.com/index.php?option=com_jb2&view=post&PostID=1471 AIMS Test for Management Aptitude Test (ATMA) 2012 is scheduled to be held on February 12, 2012, Sunday. With only 4 days left for the exam, students would have started their last minute revision. Practicing a lot of model test papers and time management are the success mantras to excel in any exam. Solving model papers makes you familiar with the paper pattern of an exam. Let us take a quick look at the paper pattern for ATMA 2012: ATMA 2012 Paper pattern: ATMA 2012 will be conducted both in paper pencil based format as well as computer based test. The paper pattern will remain same for both the offline and online test. The ATMA test scheduled for February 12, 2012 will be a paper pencil based test. The paper will be of 3 hours duration and will be divided into 6 sections. The paper will have 170 multiple choice based questions to test the candidates in Analytical reasoning skills, Quantitative Skills and Verbal Skills. There will be 2 sections in each of these areas. Students are advised to read the directions carefully before starting the paper. All the important directions and instructions will be provided in the ATMA Test Booklet. The questions will be numbered as 1 to 170. If the student feels that a given question is wrong then instead of wasting time on a particular question students are advised to move onto next questions. AIMS will be giving marks if any wrong question is found in the paper. Nearly 200 business schools of India will be accepting the scores of ATMA 2012 for providing admissions to MBA/PGDM and other postgraduate programs. ATMA will grant percentile scores to the students in different sections of the paper. http://www.diversityabroad.com/index.php?option=com_jb2&view=post&PostID=1472  Not much assignment wise again, mainly because most of my classes had options for when to do presentations, papers, etc, and I chose the earlier dates. For my internship, I switched to volunteering at PCYC, which is pretty similar to the YMCA back in the states. It’s a much shorter commute with a more relaxed environment, since I’m basically just hanging out with the kids and doing minor IT adjustments to the game computers. Again I played netball on Tuesday and Wednesday, and I made some more bread and eggrolls. On Thursday Christian and I went into Perth proper to explore some must-visit sites. Within Kings Park, we had a picnic lunch by the memorial, explored the botanical gardens, crossed the LotteryWest Foundation Glass walkway, and climbed DNA Tower (at least Christian did). Then we headed into the Central Business District, and grabbed some happy hour sushi. On our way in search of a greek restaurant, we stopped in Elizabeth’s Secondhand bookshop (still more expensive than Half Price), an Asian (“Oriental”) grocery store for coconut candy and jasmine tea, a butcher for liver (for pate), and what Google Maps said was Kakulas Bros Nuts but was really a warehouse. The Greek restaurant was closed, and another one was also closed, and another one was waaay too expensive so we went back to campus so I could get to class on time. Nothing much on Friday, just business as usual. Saturday after the farmer’s market and grocery shopping, Christian and I went op shopping at Salvos before heading to the mall to catch a movie. While killing time in the food court, I saw a stand that was selling spit roasted meat in flat bread with vegetables and sauce - gyros?! But they were called donner kebabs, which a Google search revealed to be nearly equivalent. I’m still craving a gyro from that Mediterranean restaurant next to SMU (not to mention a nice, fat, Chipotle burrito… or a chicken fried steak sandwich with spicy mayo from Cafe Brazil… or a Crunchwrap Supreme from Taco Bell!) Then we stopped at Kmart to grab candy for the movie and killed more time by reading books in the store (I read the movie guide for Hunger Games and Christian perused diet books) and getting into a conversation about no-sugar all-meat diets with a random lady. I guiltily hid the bags of gummy worms and bar of dark chocolate we were about to purchase behind my back. Finally we met up with our friends outside the theater for some over-priced tickets (actually about the same as Northpark prices, but oh well). The only seats left were in the second row, but it didn’t even matter because The Avengers was AWESOME. Having never read the comic books or seen the Hulk or Thor movies, I was glad to be able to follow the plot. After the movie we went to Macca’s (McDonald’s for you Americans) and I had a 30c soft serve cone. By that time the buses from the stop near us had stopped running, so we called another friend who was willing to give us a ride back to campus. mall, saw “donner kebab” looked like gyro (spit roasted meat in flatbread with veg and sauce), pretty close. Still craving Deliman’s (and Chipotle!) Other food made this week: burgers, curry, cinnamon sugar monkey bread, pate with the cow liver. I'm realizing now that our time in Perth is drawing to a close, so I want to visit as many places as possible before going back to the other side of the world, 23 hours away. http://www.diversityabroad.com/index.php?option=com_jb2&view=post&PostID=1473 My classmates and I have been fortunate enough to be able to read novels and poems written by French and Russian authors that revealed to us French and Russian culture. I was able to find many similarities between French and Russian culture through the character’s lives in the novels and the films that we watched. Eastern and Western cultures, because I was inclined to belief they were polar opposites, became more relatable from the textual standpoint. It seemed like both the Easter and Western worlds were fighting for the same thing, idol status and power. Russia was striving hard to make St. Petersburg the window to the Western world and Paris was working towards being the model for what a modern city is. As we walked through the places that the authors spoke about, first in Paris and next in Moscow, I found that there was a disconnect between what was described in our texts and what I was actually seeing. The reliability that I once felt between French and Russian culture quickly disappeared. Yes I feel like Haussmann’s prophecy about Paris came true but what occurred in Paris does not seem to have manifested itself in the same way in Moscow. Moscow is a great city, comparable to the booming small city in America-everything in the center of the city with nothing else to look forward to outside of that, but nothing can surpass the modern city that Paris is. My final concluding though/question is, since Paris and Moscow (two great cities) ended up looking so different, were their objectives/goals really ever the same?  спасибо (Spbasiba) (Thank you in Russian)  My favorite thing about Paris for this week is Diversity. Going to Moscow (very Asian/European) has helped me to apprciate the diversity that exists in Paris. I was very uncomfortable (my other black friends were too) with the staring and people constantly taking photos of us. My trip to Moscow was a little unsettling, but being back in Paris makes me feel safe and at home again. Cheers to diversity abroad!