Mr. Pradeep Chandrasekaran, Founder & Director Finmark
Department of Business Management Studies (B.M.S.) Pillai College of Arts, Commerce & Science (Autonomous) in association with Finmark Trainers organized a National Level Webinar on “Managing Your Finances and Investments in Covid Times” on 6th July, 2020. This webinar benefited 38 faculty members to understand how to manage personal finances and prepare to face COVID 19 financial difficulties
Faculty members learned to proactively manage funds and also learned to appreciate risk and its correction with rewards. The session was conducted by Pradeep Chandrasekaran Founder & Director Finmark. Pradeep has been involved in the Capital Markets since I991 and has rich experience in Equity Research and Portfolio Management. He was a columnist for the Business line and Economic Times newspapers. He is a pioneer in the area of Financial Market Literacy and since 2004 he has authored three books on the financial markets and is a Founder Director of Finmark Trainers, a leading financial market education Company. He is an Accredited with the NSE, BSE, NISM and the Chartered institute of Securities and Investments, London as a Trainer
The NSS unit in association with United Way Mumbai organized Free Online Training on Hepatitis B&C on 12th June, 2020. This training covered areas like: What is Hepatitis? Its signs and symptoms, Types, Transmission, Stages, Importance and Prevention of Hepatitis B. The Training was conducted on the Zoom platform. E-certificates were mailed to the participants after the successful completion of the online training program.
Department of B.Com. Financial Markets organizes One Day National Webinar on “How to Write and Publish Quality Research Papers in Scopus & High Impact Journals” on Saturday 6th June, 2020.
An International Level Webinar on “Insights on Covid-19: Immunopathology and Diagnosis” was organized by the Department of Biotechnology on Thursday 28th May, 2020 on Zoom online platform in association with BIAP. The Webinar began with the inauguration speech by Mrs. Suparna Deepak, program co-ordinator. She said that the Corona pandemic has unveiled the true importance of the Biotechnologists and now is the time for all Biotechnologists to rise and shine, live up to the expectations of common people, and help in making the world a better place to live again together.
The webinar was an attempt to give a snapshot of what has been achieved in such a short time and to discuss the two strategies to combat Covid 19 pandemic including developing diagnostic test and tools and defining the immunopathological changes in patients with COVID-19 which could provide potential targets for drug discovery and is important for clinical management
The welcome address was delivered by Dr. Gajanan Wader, Principal of Pillai college of Arts, Commerce & Science. He welcomed the two speakers for the webinar and gave an introduction about the college and the department.
The first speaker was Dr. Usha Padmanabhan, Senior scientist and HOD Biochemistry, Haffkine Institute of Training, Research and Testing, Parel. She spoke about the symptoms and transmission of Covid 19. She gave an overview of different types of diagnostic tests carried out for COVID 19 and their exact procedures. She shared her first-hand experiences with us regarding the difficulties faced by the healthcare workers.
Dr. Ankit Saxena, Scientist, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, US was the second speaker for the webinar. He gave the overview how our immune system responds towards the coronavirus. He spoke about the importance of herd immunity and ways to achieve it.
Mrs. Deepika Sharma, Vice-Principal, Pillai college of Arts, Commerce & Science to proposed the vote of thanks. She was immensely satisfied by both the lectures as it gave a scientific view of the disease and the strategies imposed by the Government to combat it. She concluded the webinar by thanking the speakers, management, audience and the organizers.
The webinar received excellent feedback from the attendees from various colleges from various states in India and also from abroad. There were 204 participants including students and academicians. At the end, E-certificates were provided to all the participants
Department of Business Management in association with PH.D Research Centre & Board of Industry- Academia Partnerships organised seven days National Webinar Workshop on Research Methodology from 26th May, 2020 to 1st June, 2020
The workshop benefited 374 participants from across India. The workshop covered various areas of techniques of research from identifying research problems to writing a research report. It was a complete package for research scholars and other participants who got hands on training through the workshop.
The entire workshop was spread across 7 days. Each day 3 sessions were scheduled for smooth management of the workshop. Each day the session started with the National Anthem and the host for the day gave a brief introduction of the resource person for the day. The details of the each day session are as follows:
Day 1: Tuesday 26th May, 2020 : On the first day of workshop, Program coordinator Mrs. Nithya Varghese was the Host of the session. She welcomed all participants and Resource person for the workshop. Vice Principal Prof, Deepika Sharma of Pillai college of Arts, Commerce and Science (Autonomous) briefed the participants about the Institution. Principal Dr. CA. Gajanan P Wader of Pillai college of Arts, Commerce and Science (Autonomous) briefed the participants about the seven days National Webinar Workshop on Research Methodology. The Session was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Parvathi Venkatesh, Principal at Don Bosco College. Prof Parvathi addressed on the topics – Introduction to Research, Format of research, and Ethics in research. The workshop was continued by Dr. Keyur Nayak, Director, Laxmi Institute of Management Vapi Gujarat. Reviewer at London Journal Press. He took 3 session and covered the topics as follows: Session I: 12.00 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. Basics of Research, Selection of literature review, Identifying research gap.; Session II: 2.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. Framing objectives of research, format to write research content.; Session III: 4.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Research Paper and Case study writing, Selection of Research journal for publication.
Day 2: Wednesday 27th May, 2020 : On the second day of workshop, Assistant Professor Nithya Varghese was the Host of the session. There were two resource person for the day. Dr. Raju N, Professor (Retired) Department of Statistics, University of Calicut, he took Session I: 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. – A brief introduction to statistical analysis of data. Introduction to SPSS. Different types of data. Data entry. Data manipulation. ; Session II: 12.00 to 01.30 p.m. Descriptive statistics. Measures of central tendency, dispersion, skewness and kurtosis. Graphs and Diagrams Examples. For Session III: 2.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. – Demystifying research, Dr. Rajesh Patil, VISIT, Wadala, was the resource person.
Day 3: Thursday 28th May, 2020 : On the Third day of workshop, Assistant Professor Shardul Buva was the Host of the session. Dr. Chirag Malik Associate Professor (Business Analytics and Research) BML Munjal University Gurgaon, Haryana, India was the resource person for the day. He took 3 sessions on the day. The details are as follows: Session I: 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. Sampling Techniques and Reliability of a scale.; Session II: 12.00 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. Testing of Hypothesis-I – Non Parametric; Session III: 2.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. Testing of Hypothesis- II – Non Parametric.
Day 4: Friday 29th May, 2020 : On the fourth day of workshop, Assistant Professor Shardul Buva was the Host of the session. There were two resource person for the day. Dr. Raju N, Professor(Retired) Department of Statistics, University of Calicut took Session I: 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. Correlation analysis. Simple, partial and rank correlations. Practice on SPSS and Session II: 12.00 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. Statistical Inference. Testing of means, proportions. One and two samples. Practice on SPSS, followed by Dr. Hiren Dhand HOD Mulund College of Commerce, Mulund took Session III: 2.30 .p.m to 4.00 p.m. Data analysis with R.
Day 5: Saturday 30th May, 2020 : On the fifth day of workshop, Assistant Professor Shabab Rizvi was the Host of the session. Dr. Ajay Kumar Chauhan Founder: researchshiksha.com Consultant: Data Science & Analysis Trainer : Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning Using R Ghazibad, U.P was the resource person for the day. The details of the session are as follows: Session I: 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. Multiple Regression-I; Session II: 12.00 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. Multiple Regression-II; Session III: 2.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. Multiple Regression-III
Day 6: Sunday 31st May 2020:- On the sixth day of workshop, Assistant Professor Shabab Rizvi was the Host of the session. Dr. Dinesh Gabhane, Mumbai Maharashtra. was the resource person for the day . The details of the session are as follows: Session I: 10.00 am to 11.30am Testing of Hypothesis: Parametric Multiple response analysis, T Test, ANOVA; Session II: 12.00 to 1.30 p.m. Factor Analysis.; Session III: 2.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. Trend Analysis, Discernment analysis, Sentimental Analysis.
Day 7 : Monday 1st June, 2020 : On the seventh day of workshop, Assistant Professor Ruchika Bassi was the Host of the session. Dr. Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav Coordinator, Foreign University Relations Coordinator, Students Training by External Agencies Coordinator, Internal Assessment (MAM & BTM) Gwalior, M.P. was the resource person for the day. The details of the session are as follows: Session I: 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. Identifying significant database. ; Session II: 12.00 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. Bibliometric Analysis I; Session III: 2.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. Bibliometric Analysis II.
Participants who had opted for coursework an Examination on research methodology was scheduled on the last day from 4.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
The entire session was well managed by the Host, technical team of Board of Industry- Academia Partnerships and faculty admins created for the session. Regular polls were conducted in all the session for all the seven days. The resource person addressed Doubts raised by participants, the email id of the resource person were shared with the participants so that they can directly mail their doubts to the resource person.
The seven day National Webinar Workshop on Research Methodology concluded with a vote of thanks by Assistant Professor Ruchika Bassi.
The Finanza Association of B.Com. Accounting and Finance had organised a Visit to Dalal Street to participate in the Lit Fest organised by the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The fest was a two day event in which various dignitaries from different backgrounds addressed the audience with their views. The event started with beautiful performance of flute and then the motivating speech of Gaur Gopal Das gave everyone a light on way of living one’s life. Then there was a discussion on Rain water harvesting and conservation by Sir Samuel, founder of Indus Waters Treatment Plant.
Other than formal activities, there were stalls of various items such as Live Ice-cream Shop, Live earthen pot making, stalls of tea and coffee, etc. to give people a real hand experience of how things are made. Overall, the event was a success and attending it proved to be good for all.
Department of B.Com. and B.Com. Accounting and Finance in association with Mumbai University College Teachers Association (MUCTA) organized Three Days International Faculty Development Programme on “Digital Teaching and Learning Environment” on 11th, 12th and 13th May, 2020.
Ms. Bhavya Ahuja Grover Faculty from Ramanujan College, University of Delhi was the resource person for all three days of the session. Mr. Harshal Kulkarni from the United Kingdom Guest of the session addressed the participants on the importance of FDP in the current era. The basic idea was to equip the teachers with hand on training on getting started with LMS, Structuring course e content, flipped classroom, screencastify hands on training were covered during the session. The main aim was to assist the teachers in smooth conduct of online classroom. Online FDP session was streamed online on youtube channel of MUCTA.
1482 participants from different colleges registered for this online FDP from national as well as international domain (Australia, United Kingdom) 5.8 thousand people viewed the live streaming. The presenters were provided with the E-certificates followed by quiz and feedback for all three days. Online FDP had very good responses from all the participants through comments on you tube live chat.
Board of Industry Academia Partnerships (BIAP) is organizing Faculty Development Program on “Research Methodology” from 4th to 8th May, 2020.
National Level Webinar on “IPR, Copyright and Plagiarism” was organized by Learning Resource Centre in association with Library Advisory Committee on 27th April, 2020 using ZOOM Platform.
The webinar aimed to aimed to create awareness about the intellectual property rights and consequences of Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism among the participants. In addition to it, the webinar highlighted on how to manage references and bibliographies while conducting research activity. About 95 members participated in the webinar.
Dr. Sanjay B. Munavalli, Organizing Secretary of the event while introducing the webinar said that IPR, Copyright and Plagiarism are important areas of discussion in this COVID-19 pandemic situation and all universities, colleges must need to be addressed. If the higher education institutions does not take steps to address the gravity of this situation it risks damaging its reputation. It is crucial for a higher education institution to establish a culture in which academic integrity is at the forefront of its mission.
The session was conducted by Shri. Prahlad Jadhav, Senior Manager at Khiatan & Co. Mumbai and presented in detail about the intellectual property rights copyright, trademark, patent and highlighted that academic dishonesty and fair use of information for education purpose. He also shared his views on ‘Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism’ and highlighted the University Grants Commission (UGC) (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Education Regulations, 2018).
During Valedictory Session, report of the webinar was presented by Organizing Secretary, Dr. Sanjay B. Munavalli which was followed by online feedback from the participants and distribution of e-certificates to the participants