Kalam Scholarship Opportunities

IMMERSION PROGRAM | Diploma in Business French | TEF COMPASS | SPRINT PROGRAM

Introductin on Scholarships:

The Kalam Scholarship Program is offered for the candidates of Diploma in Business French or any other program offered by HERE AND NOW. This program is run by HERE AND NOW – The French Institute, Chennai, India. The program is named after Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (1931 – 2015). was an Indian scientist who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering.

Dr Kalam spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India’s civilian space programme and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology.

Dr Kalam firmely belived that the growth of the country is largely depended on the Right Education to the younger generation. Hence The Team HERE AND NOW wants to follow the foot path of this great man and offer this Kalam Scholarship Programs.

The Kalam Scholarship Program offers two types of funding for learning French at HERE AND NOW.

Research Internship Program:

This program is designed for all students of the French language as core or allied subjects. Students can be from any stream be it economics, engineering or science background at the Bachelor’s or Master’s levels who plan to undertake an internship at The French Institute during their academic break. This program is designed also for the exchange students for a period of one to four months (duration of an academic semester) at the Bachelor’s or Master’s degree level.

General French & Business French Scholarship Program:

This program is designed for one to two years of studies at HERE AND NOW for the candida

tes of General French & Business French.

Selection Procedure:

Your application will be selected on the basis of your academic excellence, as well as the consistency and quality of your statement of purpose. Knowledge of French will be an asset but is not mandatory. For IMMERSION PROGRAM scholarship applicants, an internship is required at HERE AND NOW – The French Institute.

Important – Please ensure that your statement of purpose is original.

Scholarship benefits for all the programs

• Interns will be paid a Monthly Stipend (5000 to 25000 INR approx. – duration & amount vary).
• Upto 100% scholarship for the French courses provided at HERE AND NOW – The French Institute, Chennai.
• Travel Allowance.

DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST CHASE SCENE IN CASINO ROYALE???????

 

A very uniquely designed sport that warrants high level flexibility and remarkable athletic spirit originated in early nineties in France by Monsieur Raymond Belle and then the baton was transferred to his son Monsieur David Belle – Parkour

Designed in such a manner that will keep the audience truly on the edge, the philosophy of this sport was based on the reclamation of life – living life with all the natural processes which has helped in the formation of human body.

 

A Swiss architect developed a “parcours du combattant” – a military obstacle course which led to the development of civilian fitness trails and confidence courses that glorified exemplary characteristics like courage, calmness and confidence.

 

A study by Neuropsychiatrie de l’Enfance et de l’Adolescence (Neuropsychiatry of Childhood and Adolescence) in France found that tracers or people who perform this sport seek more excitement and leadership positions than gymnasts do.

 

A combination of climbing, skating, quadrupling, jumping and other flexible stunts completely stuns everyone when this sport is performed. It was a méthode naturelle that slowly evolved into a great fascinating art of strict and rigid discipline.

Several films have used this mechanism for beautiful and amazing stunt scenes which demonstrates amazing agility and flexibility in coming up with a very captivating show of clashes, smashes and dashes. Some names include Casino Royale, Dhoom 3 , Live Free or Die Twice , Prince of Persia and Taxi 2 .

 

Great amount of danger and life threatening risks are associated with this manly sport that just keeps flowing like a charged up electron moving at a rapid pace in order to spark up an electrifying experience.  May be this personification may sound comparatively weaker than the real sport, I guess.

 

It was highly inspired and experimented during Second World War though this sport gained global acclaim only in the last few decades.

 

Many people in the great military force get equipped with this rare tactics of military combatting.

 

L’art du déplacement”  (French for “the art of movement”) as this movement slowly was termed had beautiful dimensions of expertise through a creative entourage of various tricks and stunts which gave us huge benefits of sheer thrill .

 

On the contrary, it started raising questions on several aspects of safety, trespassing and increase of theft or crime with the spread of this great art.

 

Along with rigorous training and continuous practice, you slowly evolve as an expert in Parkour which is a rare decoration that is accorded to a qualified tracer. A tracer is a person who performs Parkour.

 

Jumping across barriers, climbing walls, jumping risky boundary walls etc all have philosophical interpretation as a fighter against all odds or as a person who overcomes all the challenges etc.

Watch the below link for the exciting chase

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOK3wSmktzQ

 

 

A person named Zahid Shah in Jammu and Kashmir had opened an academy in order to manifest all his people’s positive energy in this sport instead of using their energies in violent means.

 

With very minimalistic or no any equipment in general, this sport is really a very thrilling affair with jaw dropping sequences of dangerous stunts.

 

PARKOUR ………… an awesome movement …………………. a great celebration of the human body’s amazing energy and potential!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Just Jump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Sidsam

 

 

When someone starts talking about FRENCH, the first thing that we think about is the beautiful city of Paris or the magnificent iconic world wonder, the Eiffel tower or “La Tour Eiffel” as the French call it !  To the world, French is a language of love, romance and anything beautiful and exotic, but French is not only about “ l’amour  “. We all celebrate the true spirit of affection, attraction, admiration and boundless love with this language along with its rich history and inspiring literature,  be it the French revolution or its amazing paintings or new wave films etc.

French is also a very potent and an extremely powerful language. There are amazing expressions and modes of communication which will make you a true blue fan of this international language. Added to it, are its fascinating ways of pronunciations adding flamboyance and style with a European flash.  It is so true that we do not say the word like in French, but instead love. French is always LOVELY.

French remains one the most diplomatic languages of the world for it is one of the official language in 29 countries of the world and is spoken as the first language in Canada, parts of the US, western Switzerland, Belgium , Monaco and obviously in France !

Statistics

 

French is the fourth most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union. Owing to its long history as an international language of commerce and literature, French is one of the official languages of international organisations including the United Nations, the European Union, the World Trade Organisation, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Olympic Committee and many others. It is also a working language of numerous non-profit organisations. This language is considered an asset for business owners and hence this makes French the most sought after foreign language ahead of German and Spanish. The cultural and economic credits of this language are never ending.

Despite French being such a versatile language, it is one of the easiest to learn and understand.

Like many other European languages it has the same Roman script as English. For an English speaking person, it would only take a maximum seven hundred hours of French training to talk and write French with almost no difficulty what so ever. There are countless opportunities that await a Francophone especially in our nation.

Carried Away By the Charm

 

The French language with its various credible facets and interesting probabilities can be truly stated as the language of the future!

I bet if any one wishes to enjoy a ride with this language, you will definitely be encapsulated with its magnetic charm and a beautiful odyssey of an international feel that may immerse you completely into a different world altogether .

 

Love French and you will be blown away by its presence ! ! !

 

 

Shreya Mahesh

 

 

The situation presently in France after the terrorist attack seems to be highly cautious and proactive in terms of defence and security measures. Now France being a major global leader in peacekeeping operations seems to sadly have been on the wrong side of revenge based terrorist attacks.

Coming to the economy, France has not been able to generate a lot of jobs post the recession and 2008 global crisis. The heavy taxation benefiting the social security welfare schemes, the rising costs of living as well as the unemployment rate standing at 11 percent presently has turned out to become a tragedy for the French government in employment and job creation

Regular strikes like the recent bus and transport strikes as well as workers strike in Airbus industry has overall let down people’s expectations in terms of their aspirations and ambitions to achieve or climb to top ladders in the job market.

Majorly in the regions of Ile de Paris as well as the North and the East region, the industries and agriculture related jobs generally thrive . Half of the French population are employed in tertiary private sector with a 33 percent in Govt sectors and 14 percent in the industries and agricultural domain. The tourism industry alone employs 1 million plus people in the sector.

As a leading industrial and a financial superpower with manufactures like Citroen, St Gobain , Total, Airbus, Sanofi, L’Oreal, Puegot, Alstom, Dassault, Lafarge and Schneider Electric etc along with financial chains like Societe Generale and BNP Paribas , France has an amazing list of top class enterprises credited with global acclaim. But either due to technical or global issues, sadly the skill gaps and the right employees for recruitment are not able to be injected into the workforce

The French people give high priority for skills and qualifications along with a major thrust of functional usage of the French language if foreigners or expats wish to apply for jobs. Work permit is easy for EU national except for a Croatian national, where a master’s equivalent is obligatory for granting the permit. Otherwise for other citizens they must be earning a certain specified amount in order to be granted a generous work permit time period.

Now certainly factors like more serious governance by politicians in reskilling the workforce by special apprenticeship initiatives akin to Obama’s policy in notably reducing the American unemployment rate as well as focussing on interesting mergers and tie ups coupled with negotiating strongly with the union leaders must be a continuous pursuit for fixing these issues.

Recently using the rare clause of 149 as per the French Constitution, the Prime Minister Mr Manuel Vals had passed a presidential decree in relaxing the controversial labour law which was propagating easy methods to hire and fire along with many other issues that had irritated the labour community.

Strikes are very common because of the union’s influence in France. Suitably these issues can only be fixed by willful and strong decision making demonstrated by aggressive political steps in initiating reforms along with tightening the grip in the job markets and education sectors by allowing flexible options in parallel with reduction in taxation.

The only good news is that the recent rating by the international credit rating agency Moody Investors Inc has come up with a positive statement emphasizing that the customers and the loan defaulters will not be affected with the present unemployment rate.

Despite the terrorist attacks , global economic meltdown, huge NPAs leading the banks to the brink of collapse, high unemployment rate, frequent labour strikes and European refugee crisis, France remains to be a superpower though weakened by external and internal distractions.

I have full confidence that France will come back to the top pedestal in global rankings once these creative and smart strategic steps are being taken care with a long term perspective.

Can Monsieur Hollande traverse this path and conquer the challenge ?

Let us wait and watch!!!!!!!!!!!
Sidsam