St. Mira's College For Girls, Pune

ST MIRA’S COLLEGE STEPS INTO THE FUTURE WITH ITS VIRTUAL INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMME

The Department of English, St Mira's College organised an FDP on 6th July 2020 at 6.30 pm (IST) titled "An Introduction to COIL-Collaborative Online International Learning" along with LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York to begin the process of training its staff for collaborative international online learning (COIL) with faculty across the world.

COVID-19 may have brought in its wake closing of borders but in the virtual world it opened up wonderful possibilities. Due to the success of its COIL project on the partition of India, the English department has taken the initiative to form a virtual learning centre for the college. The first step is this webinar to introduce the staff to the process of collaborative learning. It will be followed by several more interactive workshops and training sessions.

Dr Olga Aksakalova, COIL Co-ordinator City University of New York that has 17 colleges under its purview, spoke on the purpose, scope and objective of COIL. She covered topics like course content and teaching methodology, intra and interdisciplinary collaborations, student-generated learning and the use of technology for brainstorming, getting to know partners and to execute a programme of about 12-15 weeks. She said that one of the advantages of COIL is that, “it provides readiness for a globalized workforce by imparting 21st-century skills like the ability to communicate with or for a global audience via digital means.”

Dr Tuli Chatterjee (LaGuardia Community College) explained the difficulties of the Partition of India COIL programme and its aims which was to craft narratives of healing out of narratives of partition by educating students to work together and build bridges that remind us we are all human.

Dr Maya Avva and Dr Alice Baldwin- Jones explained their various COIL projects. Dr Avva is from the Department of Education and wishes to explore the parallels between Spanish and Hindi whilst Dr Baldwin-Jones a social anthropologist is researching food and the politics of hunger.

The staff at St Mira’s as well as the students are all fired up to share and learn and in the process hopefully contribute to a more peaceful, tolerant and inclusive world.

On 26th June 2020, students of St. Mira’s college were offered an opportunity to address one of the major roadblocks that they were facing in their career due to COVID-19, through a webinar on “Post COVID Job Scenario and Interview Skills”

The webinar was conducted in collaboration with PIBM (Pune Institute of Business Management), by Mr. Parijat Pushp, Talent acquisition head - Mahindra insurance Brokers limited), and Mr. Ramanpreet (Chairman –PIBM) The aim of the webinar was equipping students with modern ways of presenting themselves and their resume for interviews. Mr. Pushp and Mr. Ramanpreet gave several insights on changing requirements in today’s scenario. The students were guided on the pathways to achieve the right kind of value addition to their profile.

They also highlighted the need of being aware of current affairs, knowing the game changers and encouraged the students to enhance their knowledge through reading. They emphasized the importance of JD in an interview process and knowledge of company details.

This informative session imparted wisdom which enabled the students to evaluate their understanding of interview skills and improving their strategy for job interviews. The webinar was successful in educating the students on the formation of a strong base in the career of their choice. More than 250 students of all streams of TY and PG courses attended the session through the Zoom platform for two hours. This interactive session was helpful to students to chart their career path, not only in ways to move forward with a strong focus on their career but also gave them the motivation to look at challenging times like these with positivity.

Engaging in Peer Learning- the final year BCOM students of St. Mira’s College for Girls, Pune, organized a webinar under the ‘Law Club’ of Department of Accountancy for the Second and final year students of BCOM and BBA on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016. The 15 member organizing team were mentored by CS Vaibhav Chitlangia- Founder:Yes Academy.

The participants were introduced to the origin, framework and terminologies of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016, followed by a question and answer session. The Initiative was to encourage the participants to register and appear for the National Level Quiz on Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 organized by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India. The objective was also to develop a habit of peer learning and research, organizing skills and team work. The highlight was a quiz administered to participants for a hands-on experience.

A total of 166 undergraduate students of BCOM and BBA participated along with faculty of Department of Accountancy and BBA. The webinar was coordinated by Dr. Dimple Buche, Department of Accountancy.

The webinar was conducted on the basis of the quiz held by the government of India .

St.Mira's College for Girls took a further step ahead and organized a webinar for clearing basic concepts of Insolvency Bankruptcy Code 2016 for the young minds of class second and third yaer students of bcom and bba. It was guided by Dimple Buche .

The webinar was held on 18 July 2020 on GoTo Meeting from 3:00 to 5:00 pm .The Chief Guest for the webinar was Mr.Vaibhav Chatlangia. As it was hosted by Nikku Rai and presented by Mehak Agarwal and Pratiksha Mishra. They were 256 participants actively gave they are patience hearing.

So the concepts covered by Mehak Agarwal was the terms insolvency bankruptcy code, history of IBC

Establishment of IBC ,Introduction of 5 parts of IBC and explaination of part 1 and further it was takeover by Pratiksha Mishra she told about the main procedure for corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) and and for Insolvency and Bankruptcy of Individuals and partnership firms...........like how it works,who are the persons involved and about its machanism ........why makes IBC so important in today's life and how it should be dealt .

They was a question raised by the students which were answered by the chief guest vaibhav Chatlangia .The host (Nikku Rai) of the webinar told the procedure for applying the quiz organised by the government of India and also they was a quiz organised by the webinar committee which was of 20 question of 15 minutes. Last but not least there was a feedback form filled by the participants at the end of the session.

Organizing committee members

Soumya Damami

Gauri Bhosale

Anjali Gaur

Merly Fernandez

Vrittika Daswani

Fida Shaikh

Mehak Agarwal

Pratiksha Mishra

Nikku Rai

Priyanka Singh

Apsara Attar

Amrit Kaur