Under this new partnership, Zell education will have integrated courses with ACCA certification for students pursuing their MBA and BCom from Chitkara University
Zell Education, India’s finance and accounts edtech platform has recently partnered with Chitkara University based in Rajpura, Punjab to offer MBA-ACCA online and BCom-ACCA offline integrated courses for its students. The MoU was signed between Anant Bengani, Co-Founder and Director, Zell Education and Dr Sandhir Sharma, Professor and Vice Chancellor, Chitkara University.
Under this new partnership, Zell education will have integrated courses with ACCA certification for students pursuing their MBA and BCom from Chitkara University. The platform will also launch an MBA in International Finance & Accounting (MBA+ACCA) soon, allowing university students to earn both (MBA & ACCA) in 2 years as they will be eligible for exemptions in ACCA. Starting from the June 2023 cohort, students can complete ACCA with certain paper exemptions to fast-track certification while finishing their MBA/B.Com.
The ACCA Qualification is accounting certification for future financial professionals. It equips students with relevant abilities, know-how and principles to succeed in the workplace. The collaboration aims to equip students with industry-ready certifications along with their university degrees.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined health as the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. According to this, healthcare professionals play a major role in striving for pharmacy education.
Although the pharmacy profession is recognized for its importance as health care providers in many developed countries, in most developing counties it is still underutilized. On account of this, in recent years, pharmacy colleges are mushrooming across the country.
Unfortunately, despite the best efforts put forward by the country, still, Pharmacy education remains at the low level comparatively.
Outlining The Foundation
The foundation of pharmacy education in India initiated with the implementation of the Indian Pharmacy Act-1948 by Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), to establish standards and regulate the pharmacy education, profession, and pharmacy practice in India.
Thus, formal pharmacy education in India has been predominant for several decades. Due to rapid Industrialization, privatization and economic growth in pharma sector pharmacy education have been developing fast in India. Yet, the Indian pharmacy education system is criticized.
The presented article addresses the major issues in the pharmacy education system in India in the urge for revamping and to attain the desired status in the society.
The Real Need
At present, there is a considerable impact of the outdated syllabus on the current industrial needs and expectations. Often the faculty involved in the designing of the syllabus lack industrial experience.
The syllabus lack in-depth study of excipients and even after regulatory reforms and technology up-gradation happening at a fast pace, creating a niche number of talents for quality by design(QbD), dissolution, patent search, pellet manufacturing, IVIVC, bioavailability, and bio-equivalency testing, dossier preparation, and filling, etc. seems to a challenging task for pharma institutes.
Lack of infrastructural facilities, science equipment students lack the training and even curriculum is so designed that students have no professional training or internships exposure. The elements of the course have become obsolete and provide little or no interaction with the status and growth of the Pharma industry.
The curriculum basically lacks a case study or actual practical- based syllabus or more on practical problems encountered by the industry during product development from pre-formulation to regulatory filling. This is because, the planning for course or content in the syllabus lack subject –expert from industry.
Therefore, the need is to develop a closer and active link between the industry and academic institutes.
Need For Innovation
Innovation in drug delivery is very much essential for the future of the Indian pharma industry. However, lack of research approach in many colleges fails to inform students about scientific adaptations, and often they remain oblivious to the latest updates in the field of pharmacy.
This is majorly due to lack of systematic orientation in the colleges to foster students towards research. So, it is very important to instill the crop of educated researchers and innovators in medicines as they would be working with the objective of devising innovative solutions to the Indian healthcare woes like developing low-cost diagnostic tools, medical devices as well as low-cost drugs.
Demand For Social Change
Another aspect of pharmacy education that remains underdeveloped is providing patient-centric education. The syllabus teaches drug composition, interactions, and toxicology so the students should be able to guide patients towards the correct usage of medicines. However, the pharmacist at present is mere distributors of medicines.
Counseling on diet, lifestyle, and disease prevention is another role of pharmacists especially in rural areas where a shortage of pharmacists is a major concern.
However, patient counseling remains a more theoretical, rigid syllabus that fails to provide timely hospital training or patient-oriented social care. Therefore, the syllabus should be bifurcated into clinical and industrial centric in the undergraduate program.
Thus, a more patient-centered approach with multidisciplinary cooperation is necessary to develop a strong health care service provider.
Modification In Teaching Pedagogy
Despite technological advancement, teaching methodology remains obsolete in most of the colleges and institutes. The teachers themselves lack industrial experience or training of the latest instrumentation used in industry and even lack of integration with the other sciences which hinder the research and innovative aspect of the subject.
Consequently, academia often fails to adopt technological changes. Students are uninformed about the basic research steps –assess to high impact factor journals database, searching for research paper on Science Direct, PubMed or Goggle scholar, the importance of research publication, etc. Need for more practical based study rather than hypothetical concepts is the current demand for healthcare education.
The Pharma sector is undergoing a sea change in terms of meeting the healthcare demands of the country. Therefore, a system should be devised so that each student gets the opportunity to flourish their practical skills and fulfill the rising demands of healthcare service.
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Prachi Joshi
Assistant Professor, LJ Institute of Pharmacy Skilled in Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceuticals Sciences, Formulation, and Teaching
EXPOSAT Amareshwar Khened of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for a joint effort to begin space-related courses in the Sharnbasva University soon.
Senior officials of Sharnbasva University drove by Pro-Chancellor V.D. Mytri, had starter conversations with Senior Space Scientist and Project Director of Space Infrastructure and EXPOSAT Amareshwar Khened of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for a joint effort to begin space-related courses in the Sharnbasva University soon.
Dr. Mytri communicated the enthusiasm of the university to begin space-related innovative work exercises and to incorporate space-related subjects as a component of the current educational plan in the designing courses offered by the university.
Reacting emphatically to the proposal made by the university, Dr. Khened said that the ISRO effectively urged educational institutions to incorporate space-related subjects in their educational plan or start space-related subjects as a course.
He said that all assistance would be stretched out to Sharnbasva University right now.
Dr. Khened said that ISRO had stretched out its assistance to educational institutions and focuses on higher education to team up with ISRO in innovative work exercises and to prepare understudies in the different parts of room science.
The university said thanks to Dr. Khened for his positive reaction and said that the subtleties of the joint effort with ISRO would be turned out in the days to come.
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Rishihood University, with a dream to rethink higher education in India for the following 100 years, has started the confirmations procedure for the main bunch of students hoping to apply for UG and PG Programs in Entrepreneurship, Healthcare, Education and Creativity. The first period of courses is scheduled to start in the third seven day stretch of July 2020.
Situated in Sonipat the ‘center point for higher learning and research’, Rishihood University intends to incorporate long-lasting getting the hang of rising above age, subject decision and society by intently working with school students, people seeking after higher education and working experts.
With an ongoing Niti Aayog report expressing that over 53% of people dropping from higher education Institutions as unemployable, Sahil Aggarwal, Co-Founder and CEO of Rishihood University, who additionally serves on the leading group of Vision India Foundation and the Rashtram School of Public Leadership, has brought together a regarded board of counsels to help handle asymmetry among learning and employability.
Talking on the dispatch of the projects, Mr. Sahil Aggarwal said
“India is on the cusp of turning into a significant supporter of the world’s information economy by 2030. As India gets ready for this difficult change, the whole environment of educational organizations, government and enterprises must set up the present youth for a regularly advancing and unstable progress”
The university is building up a ‘biological system’ way to deal with adapting instead of separated preparing and research, which effectively connects with and supports a favorable situation for our scholarly zones just as for the bigger development of the country and society.
A portion of the regarded leading group of consultants incorporate Mr. Ajay Gupta, CEO of Bachpan Play Schools (chain of 1000+ playschools) and Academic Heights Public Schools (chain of 100+ formal K12 schools), Maj General (retd) DN Khurana who likewise keeps on being on the leading body of Indian Institute of Management (Lucknow), Dr. Cruel Mahajan, Padma Shri awardee and the President of the Indian Radiology and Imaging Association (IRIA). Other noticeable counsels incorporate, Mr. HP Mangla, Mr. JK Garg, Dr. Madhukar Gupta, Dr. Mahesh Gupta, Mr. R N Prasher, Mr. Rakesh Aggarwal, Ms. Ritu Beri, Mrs. Saroj Khan, Dr. Shenoy Robinson, Ms. Sunita Kohli, and Mr. Tilak Chandna.
Dr. Kamlesh Misra has been designated as Vice-Chancellor of Rishihood University. He is an outstanding and rumored strategist and inventive pioneer in considering, sorting out and overseeing educational and inquire about associations. He as of now has the qualification of being the establishing Vice-Chancellor of Auro University, Surat just as the Vice-Chancellor of Ansal University, Gurgaon.
Talking on the event Dr. Kamlesh Misra, Vice-Chancellor, Rishihood University, said
“It gives me monstrous joy to be a piece of what we see as a change in outlook as far as our way to deal with build up an encouraging group of people to sustain the ability of today to be future prepared tomorrow. It’s really an honor to work with probably the most similarly invested and gifted personalities in I anticipate building up a world-class educational establishment at standard with driving foundations of today”
With a creatively created adaptable credit structure offered across major and minor projects, students need not be limited to a similar program they planned at the hour of confirmation, in accordance with worldwide benchmarks of driving colleges. Rishihood University will likewise be thinking about applications for grants and budgetary guide up to 100% on education costs, given based on merit, accomplishments, sports and need a base.
In the principal stage Rishihood University has initiated confirmation for the accompanying courses:
School of Creativity B.DES, M.DES, BVA, BA, Design Fellowship
School of Entrepreneurship BBA, MBA
School of Healthcare BBA, B.SC, MBA
School of Education BA, B.ED
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