Announcements
COMEDK PGET AND Uni- edX's new course on
GAUGE PGMD year 2016 'IELTS Academic Test
Preparation' starting
announced
COMEDK or the
from Nov 27
“Consortium of Medical,
Engineering and Dental
Colleges of Karnataka” to
determine the merit of
students through a fair,
transparent and reliable
testing procedure for
admission to member
institutions of Karnataka
Professional Colleges
Foundation and Karnataka
Unaided Private Engineering
Colleges Association will be
conducting Post Graduate
Entrance Test 2016 (PGET –
2016) on 17/01/2016 for
about 600 “Institutional
seats”. This is for admission
to post graduate programs
during the academic year
2016-17. 12 Medical and 20
Dental Colleges who are
members of the association
admit students for postgraduate programs through
PGET-2016.
IELTS is the world's most
popular English language test
for those wanting to study in
higher education in an
English-speaking country.
edX's new course on 'IELTS
Academic Test Preparation'
will prepare foreign education
aspirants to take the IELTS
Academic tests with
confidence. They will have
immediate access to over 80
hours of interactive practice
materials covering each of the
four skills: listening,
speaking, reading and
writing. Due to the flexible
nature of the course, learners
will also be able to adjust their
level of effort to suit their
needs.
As the course is self-paced,
one can complete all of the
course units in sequence, or
only select the areas they may
want to focus on to prepare for
PUBLICA 2016 in Delhi
PUBLICA, the public arts festival, returns to Delhi in 2016 in
a bigger, more engaging and more international form. The
second edition of the festival is scheduled to take place in
Delhi and Mumbai from 23 January - 29 February 2016.
The 2016 edition will be spread over fifteen to twenty indoor
and outdoor high footfall venues ranging from cultural
centres, to bustling street markets, metro stations, parks and
teeming shopping malls. The city will become the backdrop
for a series of visual and performance-based installations
created by a range of artists who will create visually engaging,
dynamic pieces of public art. Artists in PUBLICA 2016
include Gigi Scaria, Anant Mishra, Deepjyoti Kalita, Krishna
Murari, Tushar Joag, Jasone Bilbao, Bhuwal Prasad and
Raktim Parashar.
The idea of the festival is to remove artworks from their
limiting traditional setting of museums and galleries and put
them in view of broader audiences to try and drive engagement
in the arts and promote cultural change at grass roots. Venues
for artworks in this edition include, Indira Gandhi
International Airport, Shanti Path, Nehru Park, Children's
Park, Select Citywalk Saket, DLF Emporio, Vasant Kunj,
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the IELTS Academic tests.
Then, when one feels ready,
they can test themselves with
an IELTS-style practice exam
for each skill. In completing
this course, learners will feel
fully prepared to complete
the IELTS Academic tests.
LSAT—India 2016 dates
on May 16
Date for the Law School
A d m i s s i o n Te s t — I n d i a
(LSAT—India™) has been
announced. The reasoningbased test will be conducted
on May 15, 2016 (Sunday) in
16 cities across India.
LSAT—India™ is one of the
leading law tests for UnderGraduate and Post-Graduate
law admissions in the
country. More than 60 law
colleges accept
LSAT—India™ scores as
one of their admissions
criteria.
The LSAT—India™, offered
by the global Law School
Admission Council (LSAC),
USA (LSAC.org), in
conjunction with Pearson
VUE, assesses the critical
reading and verbal reasoning
skills that are needed to
succeed in law school.
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From 21st – 29th November,
2015 in Chennai, BangaloreMumbai, Pune, Delhi
respectively
'Education in Ireland' is the
national brand [