Thursday, April 7, 2016

Telkom University


Telkom University, also referred to by its acronym of Tel-U, is a private university located in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. It was established in 2013 when four institutions, which were under Telkom Indonesia through its education focused wing, Telkom Education Foundation (now Telkom Foundation), were merged to form the university. These four forming institutions were Telkom Institute of Technology (IT Telkom - Institut Teknologi Telkom), Telkom Institute of Management (IM Telkom - Institut Manajemen Telkom), Telkom Polytechnic (Politeknik Telkom), and the Telkom College of Art and Design Indonesia (STISI Telkom - Sekolah Tinggi Seni Rupa dan Desain Indonesia Telkom). The university, like its preceding institutions, maintains links with hundreds of companies, many of which involved in the telecommunications sector.

The main campus site of Telkom University extends on the 48ha-area of Bandung Technoplex (BT-Plex), on Jalan Telekomunikasi – Terusan Buahbatu, Kabupaten Bandung. Other campus is located in Gegerkalong Hilir area, north of the city of Bandung, at the office area of PT. Telkom's Research and Development Center and Telkom Corporate University/Telkom Training Center.

Telkom University was established on August 14, 2013 by the Decree of Director General of Higher Education (Kemendikbud) number 309/E/0/2013. Telkom University is a private university established by Telkom Education Foundation. It was formed out of a merger of four private higher educations, namely Telkom Institute of Technology (founded as STT Telkom, 1990), Telkom Institute of Management (founded as STMB Telkom, 1990), Telkom Polytechnic (Politel, 2007), and Telkom College of Art and Design Indonesia (STISI Telkom, 2011).

STT Telkom and STMB Telkom were established in 1990 on the initiative of Ir. Cacuk Sudarjanto, the Chief Director PT. Telkom, Indonesia's largest state-owned company in telecommunication. Both colleges were the first higher educations in Indonesia specializing in the field of telecommunications and information technology.

Telkom University's campus in Bandung Technoplex is originally the integrated campus site developed for STT Telkom, which was officially opened by the President of Republic Indonesia, Suharto, in March 24, 1994. In the past, the area is the location of the second oldest radio stations in Indonesia owned by the Dutch colonial government. These radio stations then brought the historical news of the Indonesian Declaration of Independence on August 17, 1945 to the world.

Telkom University was formed out of a merger of four institutions of higher education. The four institutions were Telkom Institute of Technology, Telkom Institute of Management, Telkom Politechnics and Telkom Arts School. Each of the four schools formed a faculty inside the university.

The plan to merge the four institutions were in existence from as early as 2011.

It was initially planned that the four institutions would be merged into one university in 2012. But due to several problems the merge was delayed to 2013.

Finally, in August 31, 2013, the Grand Launching of Telkom University was established by Professor M. Nuh, the Minister of Education and Culture, Republic Indonesia.



Wednesday, April 6, 2016

University of Calcutta


The University of Calcutta (Bengali: কলিকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়; informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India established on 24 January 1857. It was the first institution in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and secular Western-style university. Within India it is recognized as a "Five-Star University" and a "Centre with Potential for Excellence" by the University Grants Commission and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.  There are four Nobel laureates associated with this university: Ronald Ross, Rabindra Nath Tagore, C. V. Raman and Amartya Sen.  The university has the highest number of students who have cleared the doctoral entrance eligibility exam in Natural Science & Arts conducted by Government of India's National Eligibility Test to become eligible to pursue research with full scholarship awarded by the Government of India. 


The university is recognized as one of the most prestigious universities in the world. The University of Calcutta was ranked 401+ in the QS World University Rankings of 2011[8] and 43 in the QS University Rankings for Asia in 2012.[9] In India, it was ranked 2 by the India Today Top India Universities of 2012  and 2013 and 2014. 



The Calcutta University Act came into force on 24 January 1857 and a 41-member Senate was formed as the policy making body of the university. When the university was first established it had a catchment area covering the area from Lahore to Rangoon (now in Myanmar), and Ceylon, the largest of any Indian university. 

The first Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University were Governor General Lord Canning and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Sir James William Colvile, respectively.  In 1858, Joddu Nath Bose and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay became the first graduates of the university. On 30 January 1858, the Syndicate of the Calcutta University started functioning. 

Following its inauguration, many institutions gradually came under its jurisdiction. Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu became the first female graduates of the country in 1882. The Honourable Justice Gooroodas Banerjee became the first Indian Vice-Chancellor of University of Calcutta in the year 1890  Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was the Vice-Chancellor for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23). Four Nobel laureates were associated with this university: Ronald Ross. Rabindra Nath Tagore, C. V. Raman and Amartya Sen. 

 


Wednesday, March 23, 2016

HKUST Business School


Established in 1991, the School of Business and Management of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, also known as HKUST Business School, is a business school in Hong Kong

 
   1Accreditation
  2Rankings
 
Accreditation 
HKUST is the first business school in the region to be awarded accreditation by both the US-based Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) and European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).

Rankings 
 
The HKUST Business School is ranked amongst the top business schools in Asia and Australia in the global MBA rankings since 2001.In 2012, the HKUST MBA program has been ranked world TOP 10 by The Financial Times. In 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program, jointly organized with Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University, was ranked number 1 in the world. 2007 was the first time an Asian-based program obtained a number 1 spot in an international survey. The publication also ranked HKUST Business School number 27 in the world – as well as best in Asia and Australia – 2004 and 2005 for the quality of executive programs offered.

Describing HKUST as a top-ranked Asian school, the EIU said the School’s full-time faculty teaching on the MBA program are all PhD qualified. It also described the School as having excellent facilities, with easy access to markets such as China and turns out graduates who are much coveted by employers across the world.

The Financial Times Global MBA ranking 2012 consists of a range of criteria and the HKUST MBA is ranked world no. 7 for international experience and Asia no. 1 for research. A typical HKUST full-time MBA class represents over 90% non-local nationality and more than 25 different nationalities in a class size of around 110 students. A part-time MBA class has 80 to 100 students representing around 40% non-local nationality.

In 2012, the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program has again topped the Financial Times’ survey of EMBA programs, the program’s fourth consecutive year in the No.1 spot of the ranking. It had a clear overall lead with high scores in the areas of the extent to which the graduates fulfill their goals for taking the program, their diversity, and their work experience. This is the fifth time that the program has taken the No. 1 position (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012), and also extends the program’s streak to eight years of being ranked among the top three in the world since 2005.

The program is ranked the world's No. 1 in terms of "Aims Achieved", which measures the extent to which the alumni fulfilled their most important goals for taking the program. The average number of years of working experience of the 2009 class was 14, ranked No. 2 by the Financial Times. According to the ranking, the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA graduates' average salary of three years after graduation reached US$465,774 per annum, an increase of 42% comparing with their average pre-EMBA salary. The average salary is the highest among the 100 EMBA programs surveyed.

Hong Kong Baptist University


Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) (Chinese: 香港浸會大學) is a publicly funded tertiary institution with a Christian education heritage.

It was established as Hong Kong Baptist College with the support of American Baptists, who provided both operating and construction funds and personnel to the school in its early years.

It became Hong Kong Baptist University in 1994 during the presidency of Dr. Daniel Tse Chi-wai, LLD, GBS, CBE, JP, who succeeded the Founding President, Dr. Lam Chi-fung, as the second president of the University in 1971. After 30 years of services to the University, Dr. Daniel Tse Chi-wai retired in 2001 and Prof. Ng Ching-fai, GBS, was appointed as the third president of the University. In 2010, Prof. Albert Chan Sun-chi assumed office as the fourth president of HKBU.

HKBU has five main campuses: Ho Sin Hang Campus (1966), Shaw Campus (1995), Baptist University Road Campus (1998), "Kai Tak Campus" (2005), and Shek Mun Campus (2006) for the College of International Education and the Hong Kong Baptist University Affiliated School Wong Kam Fai Secondary and Primary School. The first three campuses are located in the urban heart of Kowloon Tong, while the Kai Tak Campus is on Kwun Tong Road and the Shek Mun Campus in Sha Tin.

In 2005, the University established the Beijing Normal University - Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC) in Zhuhai, China. The College was the first tertiary education institution founded through collaboration between a Mainland university and a Hong Kong university. It sets a new model for liberal education in China, aiming to nurture graduates with an international perspective.

 Library

The Hong Kong Baptist University Library is made up by a Main Library and a number of branches. The Main Library is located in Au Shue Hung Memorial Library Building and has a gross floor area of 6,900 m² with a seating capacity of about 850. The library is fully automated with integrated library systems and house a comprehensive collection of Chinese and Western books, periodicals, non-print materials and newspaper clippings. Of particular importance are the Archives on the History of Christianity in China and the Contemporary China Research Collection, as well as a lantern slide and glass plate negative collection entitled "China Through The Eyes of CIM Missionaries."

Dr. Stephen Riady Chinese Medicine Library is located on the second floor of the Jockey Club of School of Chinese Medicine Building. It aims to meet the growing demand in the development of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong. The European Documentation Centre is located in the Academic and Administrative Building and is open to the public. It provides an important study and research base for European Studies. The Shek Mun Campus Library is a branch of the Hong Kong Baptist University Library. It is established to provide quality information resources and services in support of teaching and learning activities of the College of International Education in Shek Mun Campus.

After investigation, the library decided to abandon the practice of binding the majority of its western language periodical collection from 2007 onwards, substituting it with magazine boxes and possibly shrink wrapping 

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

University of Lausanne


The University of Lausanne (UNIL, French: Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890. Today about 13,500 students and 2,200 researchers study and work at the university. Approximately 1,500 international students attend the university (120 nationalities), which has a wide curriculum including exchange programs with world-renowned universities.

Since 2005, the University follows the requirements of the Bologna process. The 2011 Times Higher Education World University Rankings  ranked the University of Lausanne 116th globally. The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015 ranks the University of Lausanne 11th in Europe and 41st globally, out of 750 universities 

Together with the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) the university forms a vast campus at the shores of Lake Geneva.

  

The Palais de Rumine, one of the former buildings of the University of Lausanne

Unithèque building houses one of the two sites of the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne on the main campus of the UNIL
The Academy, forerunner of the UNIL, was founded in 1537. Its vocation at that time was to train ministers for the church. The university enjoyed a certain renown due to the fact that it was the only French language Protestant school of theology. As the centuries passed, the number of faculties increased and diversified until, in 1890, the Academy received the name and status of a university.

In 1909 Rodolphe Archibald Reiss founded the first school of forensic science in the world: the Institut de police scientifique.

From 1970, the university moved progressively from the old centre of Lausanne, around the Cathedral and Château, to its present site at Dorigny.

The end of the 20th century witnessed the beginnings of an ambitious project aiming at greater co-operation and development among the French-speaking universities of Lausanne, Geneva, and Neuchâtel, together with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Among others, this led to the transfer of the sections of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry from the University to the EPFL; the funds that were made available following this transfer were invested in the development of the life sciences at the University, including the creation of a Center for Integrative Genomics.

In 2003 two new faculties were founded, concentrating on the life and human sciences: the Faculty of Biology and Medicine and the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment.

On 1 January 2014, the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) was integrated into the University of Lausanne. 

Universidad de Congreso


La Universidad de Congreso es una universidad privada que se encuentra situada en el centro de la ciudad de Mendoza, Capital, Argentina. Es reconocida por el Ministerio de Educación de la República Argentina, siendo este organismo quien aprueba los títulos académicos, tiene capacidad para 1.500 alumnos. La universidad está ubicada en el corazón de la ciudad de Mendoza Capital, situada en la intersección de la Av. Colón y 9 de Julio.


La Universidad de Congreso (UC) es la más joven de las instituciones universitarias de Mendoza. Promovida por la Fundación Postgrado de Congreso, la UC fue autorizada provisoriamente para funcionar por medio del decreto del Poder Ejecutivo Nacional N° 2377, de fecha 28 de diciembre de 1994. La Universidad comenzó a funcionar en el ciclo lectivo 1995, con la oferta de las dos primeras carreras autorizadas, las licenciaturas en Administración y Comercialización, con sus respectivas orientaciones. En el período de julio de 1995 a marzo de 1998, fueron autorizadas por el Ministerio de Educación, siete nuevas carreras y ocho títulos de grado: Licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales, en Turismo, en comunicación en Gestión Ambiental en Sistemas de Información, en Economía y la Licenciatura y Profesorado de Ciencias de la Educación. Desde 1999, la Universidad adecua sus instrumentos institucionales: el Estatuto Académico Universitario con su correspondiente Reglamento General Interno, el Proyecto Institucional y el Plan de Acción para su desarrollo. Esto culmina con el reconocimiento y con la aprobación de estos instrumentos institucionales en septiembre de 2001 (Resolución Ministerial 804/01). El 29 de abril de 2003 se autoriza la radicación de la Fundación Postgrado de Congreso en la Ciudad de Mendoza, autorizada a funcionar por resolución 414 de la Dirección de Personas Jurídicas de la Provincia. Entre 1999 y 2006 se completa la oferta curricular de carreras: se autorizan cinco nuevas carreras de grado, la de Contador Público, Abogacía, Arquitectura, Psicología y Comercio Exterior. A partir de 2005, se ofrecen las carreras de Comercialización y Comercialización con Orientación Internacional, en la única extensión áulica de la Universidad de Congreso, tramitada por expediente 1679/03, abierta en agosto de 2004 y localizada en la ciudad de Córdoba. En el 2006, se autorizan desde el Consejo Académico Universitario, la apertura de Psicología y Turismo. Durante el 2007, por pedido de la Cámara de Comercio Exterior de Córdoba, se autoriza la apertura de la carrera Comercio Exterior. En junio de 2008 asumen las nuevas autoridades de la Universidad y se crea el Consejo Consultivo cuya función primordial, en su carácter de organismo asesor, es proveer los recursos necesarios para cumplir los procesos de normalización institucional.

Catholic University of Cordoba


The Universidad Católica de Córdoba (UCC) is a Jesuit university in Argentina that was founded on June 8, 1956, immediately after private universities were authorized
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Social responsibility 
UCC offers a liberal education with philosophy, anthropology, ethics, and theology woven into various programs. This includes a strong commitment to be "academically engaged and socially responsible." In 2006 UCC formally adopted an approach it calls University Social Responsibility (RSU), with not only civic engagement and community outreach activities but also social responsibility stressed in every aspect of the university, including its administration, teaching, and research. Under the RSU program, UCC requires that each faculty submit a list of social responsibility projects that they will undertake in the coming year, independently or in collaboration with other faculties, thus involving faculty and students from across the university. The university further encourages students, teachers, and young professionals to volunteer for community service through its "Volunteers - Universidad Católica de Córdoba" program, working under the motto "We enter to learn, depart to serve." They apply knowledge in an interdisciplinary way to various social problems, promote social awareness and a sense of solidarity, and acknowledge responsibility for the most vulnerable. The intended outcome is that graduates be not only good professionals but also critical, compassionate, and committed persons in a society increasingly torn by exclusion and injustice.

Academic units 
1Faculty of Architecture
2Faculty of Agricultural Sciences – includes Veterinary
3Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences
4Faculty of Engineering
5Faculty of Law and Social Sciences
6Faculty of Medicine - includes Dentistry, Nursery,
7Nutrition, Surgical Instrumentation, and Occupational Therapy
8Faculty of Education Sciences
9Faculty of Political Sciences
10Faculty of Engineering
11Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, includes Psychology
12Faculty of Chemical Sciences
13Institute of Administrative Sciences