Category: Education
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Amrita ranked the 8th best university in the country for the second consecutive year
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham emerged as the 8th best university in the country for the second consecutive year in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Ranking 2019. Amrita School of Medicine at Kochi was ranked 5th best medical college in the county. The list was released by Hon’ble President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind on…
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Giving drinking water- a turning point in life
Thirty-one students from 14 Universities in Japan, from International Volunteers of University Student Association IVUSA, worked alongside 12 of Amrita University’s Masters of Social Work (MSW) students and faculty members to deploy clean drinking water filters in 31 flood-hit communities in the Kerala State districts of Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta, in February 2019. The effort was…
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Today’s education can’t ensure mental peace
Children, in the olden days in our country, awareness of the spiritual principles was considered the most important aspect of life. However, today, material knowledge has superseded spirituality in importance. There is no point in trying to turn back the clock. Such efforts will only result in disappointment. What’s important now is to learn how…
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Prajnanam – Ayurveda seminar on management of infertility
1-2 Feb, Amritapuri Ashram ‘Prajnanam’, a two-day national seminar on Ayurvedic solutions for infertility management was inaugurated today by Kerala Governor P. Sadasivam at Mata Amritanandamayi Math, Amritapuri, Kollam. During his inaugural address, the Governor has observed that the nation lacks effective treatment for infertility in general and the situation called for the involvement of…
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Spiritual knowledge should be our eyes, Science should be our arms : Amma
31 August 2018, Amritapuri Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s 15th Annual Convocation & Graduation Day Ceremony of Amritapuri Campus saw more than 1,325 undergraduate, post-graduate and Ph. D. students attaining their degrees in the presence of both Chief Guest, Dr. K Sivan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and Amma, who is the also Chancellor of Amrita…
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Real-time landslide warning system by Amrita installed in Sikkim
1 Aug 2018, Sikkim Internet of Things (IoT) based real-time landslide warning system has been installed in Sikkim, the first of its kind in the Himalayan region by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Director of the Centre of Wireless Networks and Application of the institute, Maneesha Sudheer explained “It will monitor a densely populated area spanning 150…
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Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences signs MoU with Harvard Med School
April 2018, Kochi Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi to collaborate on research and education initiatives in critical care, pain medicine, and anesthesiology. The memorandum identifies joint research and an exchange of faculty and students as areas for…
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Amrita takes vocational skill training to Africa
In partnership with STEP Innovations Africa, Amrita Vishswa Vidyapeetham’s Ammachi Labs initiated a pilot deployment of the computerized vocational education and training (computerized) in Motorcycle Repair Service at Integrated Polytechnic Regional College (IPRC), a premier vocational training institution in Kigali, Rwanda. This course is a self paced eLearning package developed in-house by AMMACHI Labs, aligned…
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Amrita University ranked as the 8th best university in the country by NIRF
3 April 2018, New Delhi Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has emerged as the 8th best university in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Ranking 2018 for Indian Universities, that was released by Prakash Javadekar, the Minister of Human Resource Development. “This is a testament to the tradition of academic excellence, outstanding faculty and world-class infrastructure that…
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Giving water to Indian villages, building friendship between India and Japan
Feb 2018, Alappuzha, Kerala In order to help supply rural villages with clean drinking water, seventy-two students from Japan travelled to Alappuzha district of Kerala to help build water filters. Despite not receiving credit from their university, having to sacrifice their vacation time, and paying for their own travel expenses, students from the IVUSA program…