Sports Coaches and Instructors Sports coaches and instructors teach the skills and techniques of a particular sport or a few related sports to beginners and professionals. They chalk out training programmes and keep them in peak form at the right time. Team coaches have the additional responsibility of moulding their players into an effective unit. [...]
Port Management Managing ports today is a highly complex business and depends on the combination of material handling, road transport, storage, safeship operations, health and safety. The core modules of port management are designed to train aspiring managers in the essential management skills required today for meeting the challenges of the ever-growing sea freight market. [...]
Instructional Designing The global need for customised e-learning packages has opened up a host of exciting new career opportunities for instructional designers. With instructional designing (ID) services being farmed out from UK and US, instructional designing is emerging as one of the fastest growing fields in India. Instructional designers draft the blueprint for a whole [...]
Pharmacology It is the science and method of detecting, evaluating, understanding and preventing adverse effects of medicines. The main purpose is to improve patient care and bring about awareness in the use of medicines and other interventions. India is the fourth largest producer of pharmaceuticals in the world. With the introduction of many new drugs [...]
The Radiation Medicine Centre at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai offers two programmes to equip professionals for working in nuclear medicine centres (the first programme may suit you best). These full-time programmes include lectures, demonstrations, practicals, theory exams, apprentice programmes and clinics. Both courses are offered under the aegis of the Homi Bhabha [...]
Calibration and Testing efficiency of quality control depends entirely on the accuracy and reliability with which the test and measuring instruments (TMI) yield test results. In a highly competitive market, systematic and periodic checking of TMI is mandatory for reliable measurements. The periodic assessment of a TMI in comparison with another instrument is known as [...]
Wildlife Photography Wildlife photography is ideally suited for someone who thrives on adventure, has an impeccable sense of composition, colour and can capture images that speak a thousand words. However, establishing yourself as a professional wildlife photographer is no cakewalk, which is why, many talented photographers remain amateurs. The climb can be hard and long [...]
Indian Army The entry route into the Indian Army is through the Combined Defence Services Examination (CDSE). The UPSC conducts this CDSE twice a year — in February and August/September — to admit cadets to the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun, and the Officers Training Academy (OTA), Chennai. CDSE also admits cadets to the Navy [...]
NET and SLET While the UGC was drafting the concept of NET as a mandatory requirement for determining the eligibility for lectureship in 1989, it also gave an option to various state governments and union territories to conduct their independent tests. It was felt that an eligibility test at the national level might not completely [...]
Cyber Forensics Cyber forensics is the process of extracting information and data from computer storage media and guaranteeing its accuracy and reliability. The challenge lies in actually finding this data, collecting it, preserving it, and presenting it in a manner acceptable in a court of law. Electronic evidence is fragile and can be easily modified. [...]