Students to get a peek into the world of finance

For the students, it is an opportunity to leap into the world of finance at the click of a mouse at the state-of-the-art finance lab at the T.A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) here.

The lab, said to be one of the largest in the country, which was inaugurated here on Saturday, will help the students to get hands-on experience in investments, portfolio management, forecasting, risk management and understanding of the global financial management working at this lab. The institute invested over Rs. 1 crore in setting up this lab. This lab is equipped with as many as 16 Bloomberg terminals and supported by data feed from BSE and NSE. The lab at TAPMI is supported by a conference room, a digital finance library (which is yet to come up) and a refreshment room. To give a feel of working in the real finance world, the institute has also come up with a Student Investment Management Fund. Under this, the best 25 students of second year PGDM (Finance) will be selected and trained by industry experts about share markets, derivatives and fixed income securities. The institute would provide Rs. 25,000 to each of these students to invest. Madhu Veeraraghavan, Professor of Finance at TAPMI, who worked to set up the lab, said that the lab would bring the theory and practice of finance together. “We are bringing the real financial world to the doorsteps of the students,” he said.

The Mangalore branch of Volunteer Services Organisation (VSO), Manipal University organised ‘Spoken Kannada Classes’ in Mangalore recently to encourage non-Kannadiga students to learn the local language for a better interaction with patients. According to a press release issued here by the Manipal University, these classes will also help to promote the culture of the State. As many as 60 students took part in 10 classes spread over five weeks. Senior faculty from the departments of Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore conducted the classes. Initially, the focus was on familiarising the students with elementary knowledge of phrases and words and basics of the language.

Later, classes were specific to surgery, paediatrics, medicine and obstetrics. The classes proved to be beneficial for not only students from other States of the country, but even the international students found it worthwhile, the release added.