Blogger Tricks and Ideas!

How to reduce space between title, blog description and content in Blogger?

2015-02-10T20:25:00.000-08:00

There are many free templates that we use in blogger. Many of them are designed well to suit to our casual blogging need. However, sometimes you may want to make some changes in your blogger blog. Here is a simple way to adjust gap between your blog title and the blog description or between the blog description & the main content.

Before you make any changes in your blog's default structure, it is highly recommended to take back up of your blog template and blog data. This is to avoid any sort of loss that may happen in case you make any mistake in the process. You can very well restore your original template in case you experience any issue in between.

Let us now proceed with the steps.

Login to your blogger account and then click on Design link shown at the top. You will find "Template" link at the left. Click on that link and then click on "Edit HTML" tab.
This will open blog template's HTML sheet. Press Ctrl and F button on your keyboard to open search box inside the HTML screen.
Type .header h1 inside the search box and press Enter button to search. There you will find the following code below .header h1.Now add margin-bottom: -20px; just below the color code but before the "text-shadow" code as shown here below.

Header h1 {

font: $(header.font)

color: $(header.text.color);

margin-bottom: -20px;

text-shadow: 0 0 $(title.shadow.spread) #000000;

Save the template and go back and view the blog. You will find the gap is reduced between the blog title and the description now. You can alter this gap as per your requirement by changing the margin-bottom value to -10px or -15px.

To reduce the gap between the blog description and the main content, follow the procedures mentioned below.

Press Ctrl and F button and search for .Header .description { line in the HTML code. Now add margin-bottom: -20px; or a code with a value of your choice below the color: $(description.text.color); line as shown below.

.Header .description {
font-size: $(description.text.size);
color: $(description.text.color);
margin-bottom: -20px;

Click on "Save Template" tab. Go back and see your blog. You will find the difference now. If the space selected is not right as per your wish, then go back and try different values for margin-bottom until you are satisfied with it.

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How to remove extra space below the comment in Blogger?

2015-02-10T19:26:00.001-08:00

Blogger users often get stuck with this problem, a large white space below the comment section.

How to get rid of this so that your blog looks much better? Here are few ways to remove the extra space at the bottom of blogger blog.

Login to Blogger account. Go to dashboard and click Design tab. Click on 'Edit Html' tab. Expand Widget Templates by clicking on the box given there.

Press Ctrl and F buttons on your computer to search for the code shown below in your blog's Html

<a expr:href='data:post.commentFormIframeSrc' id='comment-editor-src'/>

You will find the iframe code below this code at two places. Go to the second iFrame code and there you will find the height attribute mentioned as '410'. This is the default height set by Blogger. Edit this number to any small figure that you want. Save the template and see what difference does it make in your blog at the bottom. In most cases, you will see the bottom space is reduced. If not, you can try the next method shown below.

Click Design link shown at the top and then click on 'Settings'. Click on 'Customize' tab and that will open Blogger Template Designer. Click "Advanced" link and scroll down to the bottom to find "Add CSS".

Click on "Add CSS". A new screen will pop where you can add your CSS. Add the following CSS code inside.

.footer-outer {display:none;}

Click on "Apply to Blog" tab and "Back to blogger" link. Now you can go and view your blog. You will find the bottom space is now reduced to the minimum level possible for your blog template.

How to remove "Powered by Blogger" Attribution from Blogger blog?

2015-02-04T23:33:00.000-08:00

Many bloggers want to remove the default "Powered by Blogger" attributes that Blogger keep in all blogs. Blogger platform does not have an option to remove this attribute but we can actually get rid of it by following a simple trick.

Here I am going to demonstrate the same. Login to your blogger blog account and select the blog.
Click on Template link and then go to edit HTML.

On this page, there is a drop down list at the top named “jump to widget". Click on it and select Attribution1.

Now press on Ctrl+F button and type <b:widget id=’Attribution1′ locked=’true’ title=” type=’Attribution’> in the search box to locate this string.

Replace "true" with "false" from the selected string and then save the template.

Click on "Layout" link. On this screen, you can find an attribution gadget at the bottom. Click edit and a new screen will pop up. Click remove button to remove your blog attribution.

That's all. Save your changes now.

Blogger Tips: Add Your Customized Favicon To Your Blogs

2015-01-23T08:41:00.000-08:00

Favicon is an abbreviation for website icon. By default, the blogger icon shown here on left side, is shown as the icon or Favicon of all blogger blogs.

The favicon is the standard Blogger favicon for all blogspot.com blogs. However, you can change this favicon to a customized favicon of your choice so that the new favicon will be shown in all your blogs!

First, we need to create a Favicon with .ico extension.

To Create Own Favicon with .ICO Extension:

Visit http://www.iconj.com to convert your image file into a file with .ico extension. Just upload your image file into this website and your image file will be converted into .ico file instantly.

Just copy the code for the converted .ico image file.

Go to Blogger dashboard. Click on Edit HTML option.
Locate <head> and paste the .ico image code just below that.
Now preview your blog and then click on 'Save Template' tab to save the changes you have made.
That's all! Open your blog to see your customized favicon in place of Blogger's default favicon.

It is very simple. Try out now! Post your comment.

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Blogger Tips: Create a Blog Archive for All Posts!

2015-01-08T11:29:00.000-08:00

Blogger offers a lot of flexibility in blogging. This platform is very easy to use and understand. Anyone can learn how to blog on blogger without much efforts as it requires no technical knowledge.

Default Archives in Blogger is usually listed in period wise; that is monthly, weekly or daily. Hence, all posts will be not seen a collapsed and only those posts that comes under current month or week ( irrespective of the settings) would be visible by default. This will sometimes affect readership of articles posted in the previous months.

How to create an archive that shows all the posts?

Here is way to list titles of all posts shown on blogger posts so that readers can find all important post titles from their current page. Once done with this new archive, we can remove the default archive from blog.

Here is the set up process.

Create customized feed in feedburner.com.
Create feed redirection on blogger blog.
Now go to 'Publisize' tab on the screen
Select Buzz Bosst. Move down the screen and click 'Activate'
Choose all required information, such as date, favicon, Display link etc. Select the following choices.
Choose Number of items to display as 'All'
Check box for Display feed title, which will enable titles of all posts to be displayed
Choose if you want to display favicon or not.
Now, select or deselect check other boxes as per your requirements.
Once finished, click Save button to save your choices. Move up to the top to find the code for the widget.
Choose Blogger option from the drop down menu and then click Go button to redirect to the blogger site. Log in to your blogger account.

The code will be automatically placed in your blog. Position of this code can be changed by dragging the widget to the appropriate place. You can place this code manually as well. For that, you need to copy the code first and then paste inside the widget in blogger blog layout.

When finished, Save the template. Click View button to see your blog side bar appear now. You can see all your post titles neatly listed inside the sidebar.

When there are a large number of posts in a blog, then we need to restrict the number of post titles that needs to be shown. It is better to choose those posts titles that are relevant to our blog niche to be shown on the side bars. You can customize this archive as per the requirement so nothing to worry about it.

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Blogger : Make Your Blog Post Title Display First

2015-01-08T08:05:00.000-08:00

There are many ways we can optimize blogger blogs. Since Blogger platform is a part of Google, it has all the settings done by Google for search ranking. However, there are still few more things that we can do to further enhance SEO ranking of a blogger.

Here is a way to customize blog title appearance by setting post titles before Blog title or Home page title.This is a very simple process.

Go to Blogger>Design>Edit HTML
Backup your template (Just to avoid risk!)
Search for a tag : <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
Now, replace this tag with the code mentioned below.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

Finished! Save your template. Now you can see all your post titles appear before blog title.

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Blogger Tips: Hide Navigation Bar in Blogspot

2015-01-08T07:41:00.000-08:00

A lot of people use blogger to share their views and ideas. This is a free platform and anyone can create an account on blogger without spending much time. We can enhance blogger blog appearance so that it will be appeared more like a customized website. We can actually remove the default Nav-bar that is shown in all blogger blogs.

Here is a way to hide the Nav-bar from a blogger blog. Just follow the instructions below:

Go to Template>Edit HTML in Blogger dashboard. Back up your template!
Now, locate /* Variable definitions in your HTML template.
Add the following code just above /* Variable definitions

                      #navbar-iframe {
                          display: none !important;
                        }

That is all. Save your HTML template. Now you can see the Nav-bar is removed from your blog.

You can always restore the old style if you want. For that, you just need to remove the this code and save.

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Higher Education in Singapore

2015-01-06T19:18:00.000-08:00

Singapore is home for around 7200 multinational companies and for the same reason

Singapore

is a favorite destination for many professionals.

Singapore

has more than 110000 professionals working here.

This huge number of professionals and companies in

Singapore

offers excellent business and professional networking opportunities and career advancement. In fact, this country offers immense opportunities for education in various levels, professional growth, and advancement in the management and engineering areas.

Education institutions in

Singapore

always offer very high quality structured courses that promote innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

Since every institution in Singapore enjoys very close connections with many renowned institutions and universities across the world, one can ensure very high standard education, that are more industry relevant and dynamic, in Singapore. The quality of education in Singapore is almost on par with many reputed institutes in UK and US.

Since education in Singapore is less expensive than in UK and US, lots of people from all over the world prefers

Singapore

to pursue quality education of their choice.

Education Level in Singapore

Singapore is one of the premier education hubs in Asia.

Singapore

offers diverse mix of quality education in a safe and cosmopolitan atmosphere. In fact, many top universities and educational institutes in the world have presence in

Singapore

today.

These institutions and universities in

Singapore

either have set up their own campus or collaborated with some of the local universities to provide quality education of international standard. International students in Singapore has a choice of education that ranges from entry level to post graduate level and much higher level up to doctorate level in various disciplines. This diversity of education and opportunities available here makes this country the most preferred destination for education in Asia. Education levels in

Singapore

mainly are in these areas.

Secondary Education
Post Secondary Education
Professional Education

- Engineering

- Business and Management

- Tourism and Hospitality Management

- Arts, Design and Media.

1. Secondary Education

(a) Junior colleges:

There are about 17 junior colleges in

Singapore

. These colleges conduct two-year pre-university course, that leading to the Singapore Cambridge GCE ‘A’ Level examination. Students who have passed Singapore-Cambridge GCE ‘O’ Level qualification- equivalent to the SSLC or 10^th standard in India - can enroll in one of the junior colleges in Singapore. Some of the schools in

Singapore

offer internationally recognized curricula and qualifications as well. Baccalaureate is one of them.

(b) Polytechnics:

Polytechnics in

Singapore

are very reputed for their market driven and more practical level education at a diploma level. These polytechnics offer three years full time diploma courses that equip its graduates with specialized industry knowledge in a wide range of disciplines. Polytechnic graduates can also pursue for degree studies at one of the top local and foreign universities as well.

Singapore

has five polytechnics at present and they are,

Nanyang Polytechnic: http://www.nyp.edu.sg/

Ngee Ann Polytehnic: http://www.np.edu.sg/Pages/default.aspx

Republic Polytechnic: http://www.rp.sg/

Singapore Polytechnic: http://www.sp.edu.sg/wps/portal/vp-spws

Temasek Polytechnic : http://www.tp.edu.sg/main/default.htm

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Study in United Kingdom

2015-01-06T19:07:00.000-08:00

Colleges and universities in

offer education with high degree of sophistication. Educational quality in UK is backed by the century old tradition hence it is the right place for anyone to get internationally respected education and thereby get career a global edge.

is the best destination for education abroad. Aspiring students should start working on their application now itself before getting late.

Many popular universities in UK offer courses in almost all leading disciplines. If you have not yet applied to your favorite UK universities so far, prepare for the same now. Usually, universities in UK begin their selection process some time during September every year. You can start applying to your choice of course and university if you already have your HSC or Bachelors degree certificate from India.

Some of the best UK universities

UK universities and colleges are very much focused when it comes to their selection process. They always take extra effort to admit only the best quality candidates to their institutions.

UK based universities often organize public meetings and interactive sessions with public within

and outside. It is an ideal place for you to gather information about those institutes and their course curriculum.

Many reputed UK universities visit India and other Asian countries regularly every year. They usually visit India during June and July months every year. Some of these universities offer fee concession and other privileges to academically brilliant international students.

If you are one of those who want to study in

then you need to consider the following points before sending out your applications.

1. Decide which course you want to study. People often choose law, engineering, or arts. UK universities are famous for their graduate courses in literature, law and few other professional courses.

Choose a course that interests you and offers very good future career options. MBAs of UK based colleges and universities are very well reputed and widely recognized.

2. Choose a reputed university for your studies. When you choose your institution, consider factors such as curriculum, location, and facilities offered to stay, scholarships, ranking of institution in the area of studies of your choice, fee structure, campus environments, and many other factors that you feel are important.

Following are few of the reputed UK universities visit India every year.

University of Bradford

University of Liverpool

University of Greenwich

Coventry University

Glasgow Caledonian University

Liverpool John Moores University.

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

University of Nottingham

Cardiff University

University of Exeter

University of Luton

Lancaster University

University of Stirling

University of Wales Swansea

UK government had announced in 2006 that all international students who enrolled for their Masters Degree courses now are allowed to stay back and work in the UK for a period of one year after the completion of their studies.

This new rule makes education in UK more attractive. The new UK visa rule will open plethora of opportunities for international students. In short, you will have better chance to be employed there. Gaining practical experience in UK is some thing very exciting and it will definitely add value to your career growth.

Visit http://www.workingintheuk.gov.uk for more details.

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Study Engineering in Singapore

2014-12-31T19:32:00.000-08:00

Singapore

has many world-renowned schools of engineering. According to the 2008 Times Higher Education Supplement, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in

Singapore

had secured No.10 and 26 ranks amongst the world’s top technology universities.

Many local school of engineering in

Singapore

have formed strategic alliance with leading foreign universities to offer global standard education, and research in science and technology. Private institutes in

Singapore

offer very high quality education from certificate level to post graduate level. Polytechnics in

Singapore

continue to offer diploma level courses in different branches of engineering.

To meet growing demands in new areas like aeronautical engineering, they started many new diploma programs in various disciplines that are in demand. Both private and national engineering colleges in

Singapore

offers many scholarships to support bright and aspiring students in every year.

(A)Public Universities

1. National University of Singapore:

National University of Singapore is one of the most prestigious universities in Singapore. In fact, this university is ranked amongst the top 25 universities in the world. This university offers a diverse range of courses and attract students from more than 70 countries every year.

Website: http://www.nus.edu.sg/

2. Nanyang Technological University:
Nanyang Technological University is actually a research-intensive university. This university has students from all over the world in the areas of science and engineering.

Website: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/

(B) International Universities

1. Technische Universitat Munchen

This university was the result of the German-Asian university partnership. This university is a part of the German Institute of Science and Technology or widely known as GIST. GIST is pioneer in the management of postgraduate education, executive training, and contract research.

Website: http://www.gist.edu.sg/

2. Georgia Institute of Technology:

Georgia Institute of Technology has established The Logistic Institute- Asia Pacific or TLI-Asia Pacific. This institute is jointly formed by Georgia Institute of Technology and National University of Singapore (NUS). TLI is one of the premier research and education institute that offers varieties of Logistics and Supply chain management programmes.

Website: http://www.tliap.nus.edu.sg/

3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has collaborated with NTU and NUS in Singapore to form the Singapore-MIT alliance or SMA. SMA is founded in 1998 and this institute is a pioneer in its graduate level education in Science and Engineering.

Website: http://web.mit.edu/

Image sources: Georgia Institute of Technology site and Google

How to Move Blogs Between Two Accounts?

2014-12-30T09:04:00.000-08:00

As the blogger platform gaining popularity, it is important to know some functions that we can carry out in this platform.

Here is a way to move blog posts from one blogger blog to another. This can be within the same account or from one account to another.

1. Sign in to blogger blog and go to the blog posts that you want to transfer. Select all the blog post that you want to transfer to a new blog.
2. Click on Setting shown on left side at the bottom.

3. Now, click on Other link. It will take you to a new screen where you can see Import blog - Export blog - Delete blog links under blog tools.

4. Click on Export link and save this file to computer.

5. Open the blog to which the selected posts needed to export in a different browser. Go to setting>Other>Import

6. When you click on Import link, it will ask to choose the file. Select the file saved in the computer and click on Import blog tab. All your selected blog posts will be imported to the new blog. That's all! It is very easy task to carry out.

There is another way we can do this as well.

1. Sign in to the first blogger account. Go to Settings, and then click on PERMISSIONS tab. Click on ADD AUTOR tab, and enter email address of other blogger account.

3. Log out from this blogger account. Go to the email account and check for an invitation mail sent from this Blogger account. Click on the link to accept this invitation and then go to blogger settings area again. You will see both authors (The existing author and the new one) are listed there. Assign full administrative right to the newly added author account and then log out completely.

2. Log in to the new blogger account and then go to settings and Permission area. You can see both authors are listed there. Now remove the first author from the list by clicking on REMOVE link. The first Author is removed now. Go to dashboard and there you can see the transferred blog listed.

Now the posts are moved from one account to the other. This method can also be used to transfer ownership between two separate user individuals - you will just have to coordinate with the other person to follow the steps outlined above.

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Blogger Tips: Want to Stop Copying Content from your Blogger blog?

2014-12-26T22:31:00.000-08:00

We can see many blog sites use copied content from other established blog or site. Using copied content is not at all good for SEO ranking, Search engines like Google and Yahoo would simply block such sites that use copied content.

How to right protect our article? There are many copy right labels available online. Using such labels along with the publishing date would protect contents in our blog to some extend. We can also block the right click function of 'Copying' to discourage people from copy content from a blog and use somewhere on the web.

There are many tricks to do that in blogger blog. Here is one simple way to disable content copy option in blogger blog so that no one can copy contents from that blogger blog.

Just follow the steps:

1. Log in to your blogger account. In the dashboard, click on Design / Layout > Edit HTML
2. Click on the box named Expand Widget Templates
3. Now copy the set of code metioned below.

<script type="text/javascript">
var omitformtags=["input", "textarea", "select"]
omitformtags=omitformtags.join("|")
function disableselect(e){
if (omitformtags.indexOf(e.target.tagName.toLowerCase())==-1)
return false
}
function reEnable(){
return true
}
if (typeof document.onselectstart!="undefined")
document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false")
else{
document.onmousedown=disableselect
document.onmouseup=reEnable
}
</script>

4. Paste this code anywhere between head tag, ie. <head> and </head>
5. Save the changes made by clicking on Save Template tab

Finished. Now go back to blogger site and see the change! Content copy option is disabled now.

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Business Management Learning in Singapore

2014-12-25T19:53:00.000-08:00

Singapore is an international financial center in the world. In fact, this country is the Asian hub of many world’s largest and popular multinational companies. NTU and NUS are the most renowned universities in Singapore. According to the Financial Times Global MBA rankings, MBA degree programs offered by these institutes rank amongst the top 40 business management programs in the world.

(A)Public Universities:

1. Singapore Management University

Singapore Management University is one of the top management institutions in the world itself. This university is partnered with Wharton School of Business ( University of Pennsylvania) and Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.

Website: www.smu.edu.sg

(B) International Universities:
1. ESSEC:

ESSEC is one of the premier institutions in France and this institute has set up its centre in Singapore now. ESSEC is very well known for its highly selective admissions and their exceptional networking with the leading corporate around the world. This institute offers customises executive management programmes.

Website: http://www.essec.edu/essec-international-business-school-in-europe-mba-programs-bba-executive-education.html

2. INSEAD:

INSEAD’s multicultural diversity in its campus is one of its advantages. INSEAD is one of few most reputed institutes in

Singapore

that offers one-year MBA programmes.

Website: www.insead.edu/singapore_campus/getting/index.cfm

3. SP Jain Center of Management:

SP Jain Center of Management, based in India, had set up its center in Singapore and it is one of the reputed management institutes in Singapore now.

Website: www.spjain.org

4. University of Chicago Graduate School of Business:

This university is founded in 1898 and its first executive program came out in 1943 to provide quality management education for middle and senior management professionals and executives

Website: www.chicagogsb.edu/visit/singapore/index.aspx

(C)Private Institutions

There are many reputed private business management colleges also in Singapore. Although education in these colleges are relatively expensive than the institutions listed above, a lot of students from Asian countries and middle east come here for higher studies because of the reputation these institutions enjoy.

Here are some of the best private business schools in Singapore:

1. James Cook University:

Website: www.jcu.edu.sg 2. Management Development Institute of Singapore:

Website:www.mdis.edu.sg

3. PSB Academy:

Website: www.psb-academy.edu.sg

4. Singapore Institute of Management:

Website: www.sim.edu.sg

5. TMC Education Group:

Website:www.tmc.edu.sg

Image Source: JCU, Google, SMU sites

Blogger: An Ideal Platform for Beginners!

2014-12-24T10:00:00.000-08:00

Blogger is an ideal platform to express views online. Blogger is very popular and we can even monetize blogger blogs online by affiliate them with contractual advertisers such as Adsense and Chitika. Whether a blogger wants to generate revenue online or just want to update some information online, it is very important to get more readers to keep a blog alive and vibrant. Search engine optimization is the key for getting good search engine ranking and thereby more readers to a blogsite.Blogger is the best blog space for beginners, because it is easy to manage and no technical knowledge is required to use that. However, Blogger has some limitations. We realize it when we do optimization to our blogsite. Such drawbacks always affect SEO and the traffic rate. However, most of these drawbacks can be rectified by adapting some simple techniques!

Here are some limitations of blogger blog and a simple idea to solve them!

Titles of post are displayed after Blog title:

Every blogger blog has a main title (Home page title) and this title is same for all the posts in that blog. Usually when you open a post inside a blog, the home page title comes first and then post title at the top of the browser window.

It is very much necessary to make this way because only this way a blogger can optimize each individual post in a blog. As we Google search results shows only the first sixty-six characters of any site title. So it is very much necessary to make the site this way for search engine optimization and boost traffic to each individual post.

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Post-Secondary Education in Singapore

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(A) Public universities

There are three local universities in Singapore.

These three universities are among the top universities in Asia and they offer internationally recognized undergraduate degrees, postgraduate degree courses in many disciplines. These universities also offer fellowships, research, and scholarship options as well.

(B) International Universities

Many leading international universities have already establishes their presence in Singapore. These universities have either set up their own campus or collaborated with local universities. Though there are many international universities have presence in Singapore, few of the leading universities are:

    1. University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
     2. University of Nevada, Las Vegas
     3. SP Jain Center of Management
     4. DigiPen Institute of Technology
     5. ESSEC
     6. INSEAD

(C) Private Institutions

Education in Singapore is further diversified through wide range quality private education institutes. These institutes offer varieties of educational programs that range from certificate programs to post graduate and higher level programs.

These private institutions are collaborated with many renowned universities nationally as well as internationally and many of their courses are recognized worldwide. Besides these regular private institutions, many specialty institutions in

Singapore

offers international degrees in various niche disciplines as well. Some of the top private institutions in Singapore are the followings.

1. PSB Academy

2. Management Development Institute of Singapore

       3. Raffles Design Institute
       4. Singapore Institute of Management
       5. Tourism Management Institute of Singapore
       6. LASALLE College of Arts

7. Nanyang Academy of Fine Art

Education Excellence in Singapore

This country has a strong education system in place that governs the quality and delivery of private education in this country.
The Case Trust for Education Scheme existed in this country has student protection policies, welfare practices, and standards in place. The Case Trust for Education Scheme is mandatory to all institutions that enrol foreign students. Hence, every private institution in Singapore needs to qualify for the Case Trust for Education certification if they want to accommodate foreign students in an academic year.
The SQC-PEO or the Singapore Quality Class for Private Education Organizations scheme actually serves as an industry benchmark for academic and business excellence. Though this certification is not mandatory to all institutions, it will definitely benefit the institution by way of fast track processing of student visa and waiver of security deposits.

Image Sources: INSEAD site and Google

College Admission Essay and College Admission

2014-12-09T00:01:00.000-08:00

Introduction:

There are certain things which students must be aware of before applying to any colleges. Candidates are admitted to colleges based on the grades they scored in College admission essays followed by personal interviews. College Admission Essay is the most important selection process in most of the good colleges and universities.

Purpose of College Admission Essay

-- It reveals candidates overall personality style that include communication skills, confidence level and creativity.

-- College Admission Essay of candidates conveys information about their strengths and weakness, competitiveness, area of interest, and extracurricular activity details to the college admission officials.

-- It also helps students to analyze the college atmosphere and check if this place is the right place for his career advancement by knowing the college, its programs, and methodology of teaching.

-- Candidates must be very attentive while writing a college admission essay. It should talk completely about them with not much of self-praising.

How does one prepare for College Admission Essay writing?
There are many readymade College Admission essays available on the internet.

One can go through these sample essays to gain some idea about the structures of College Admission essays in general. However, topics of these sample essays may be different but it is still useful to have some idea about it.

-- Each candidate has different choices while choosing institutions for higher studies. It is better to make a list of colleges and universities in the order of preference first.

-- Understand selection procedures of these institutes before applying. This will help to face College Admission Essays more effectively.

-- Identify at least five institutions based on the personal preferences and courses the students are interested. It is important, because, even if some candidates could not secure admission in one college, they can prepare well for the College Admission Essays of other colleges.

-- Prepare well to write impressive College Admission essays and face personal interviews.

Besides writing good College Admission Essays, one should also do some basic research about the institutes they indent to study. Consider the following points while seeking admission to colleges.

Field of study: Identify institutes those offer the best education in your interested field.

Cost of studies: It is an important factor especially if candidates want to pursue studies abroad or choose subjects of study that are in high demands and expensive.

Facilities: Find out the faculty to students ratio of the college and check:

If their faculties are accessible to the students

How good are their sports and recreational facilities?

Do they have proper medical care in case of any emergency?

How vast is their collection of books in the library?

Convenience: It largely depends on candidates’ choice. If they prefer to study at places situated nearer to their hometown or prefer to be at far away areas where one can enjoy diversity of places and people.

Tourism and Hospitality Management Courses in Singapore

2014-11-30T06:02:00.000-08:00

Hospitality Tourism Management is the study of the hospitality and Tourism industry. A degree at different levels in the subject is awarded by a university or college dedicated to this area of studies. In some institutions, a degrees in hospitality management is offered along with hotel management, hotel and tourism management, or hotel administration courses.

These management courses cover topics related to hotels, restaurants, cruise ships, amusement parks, and country clubs. There is a huge scope for these courses in almost all developed countries in Asia, Europe, Middle East and US.

Many well known universities and institutions offers various courses in Tourism and hospitality management. Some of the reputed institutions in Singapore are the following.
(A) International Universities

1. Cornell University

This university has set up its center in Singapore through a partnership with Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management in Singapore.

Website:www.cni.ntu.edu.sg

2. University of Nevada (Las Vegas)

Website:www.unlv.edu.sg

(B) Polytechnics

1. Tourism Academy@ Sentosa

Tourism Academy@ Sentosa is formed in collaboration between Temasek Polytechnic and Sentosa Leisure Group. This institute offers two-year full time diploma course in hospitality and tourism business.

Visit:www.tourismacademy.edu.sg

Arts, Design, &Media
(A) International Universities:

1. DigiPen Institute of Technology:

DigiPen Institute of Technology has opened its first campus in Singapore in 2008. This institute is a pioneer and global leader in the area of digital entertainment higher education.

Visit: https://singapore.digipen.edu

2. NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia

Website: www.tischasia.nyu.edu.sg

3. Nanyang Institute of Fine Arts

Website: www.nafa.edu.sg

4. Raffles Design Institute

This institute was established as a center for educating professional design disciplines in 1990. This institute offers wide range of courses in the areas of fashion designing, fashion marketing and management, visual communication, multimedia design, animation, interior design, product design and many other programmes in the creative field. This institute has centers in all major cities in the region, such as Singapore, Mumbai, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Shanghai, Auckland, Sydney, HO chi Minh City and Bangkok.

Website: www.raffles-design-institute.edu.sg

Formation of Apartment Association in Bengaluru

2014-11-06T07:40:00.000-08:00

Formation of Apartment Association

Formation of Apartment owners association is a cumbersome process. If the owners are lucky, the builder only registers the association before hand over. If that does not happen, then the owners need to join together and do everything themselves with the help of a lawyer.

We noticed most lawyers recommend the registration of the owner’s association under the Karnataka Societies Act. In fact, the Karnataka Societies Act is not the right law to register an apartment association. Section 3 of the Societies Act has a relevant definition applicable to apartment owners association.

The Karnataka Apartment Owners Act (KAOA) is the right law under which all apartment complex owners should register their association.

Apartment, as defined in Karnataka, is a property of residential nature where the owner owns the apartment and holds a percentage of shares in the land and common areas and amenities. There are two laws governing these matters in Karnataka.

Karnataka Ownership Flats Act (KOFA) and
Karnataka Apartment Owners Act (KAOA)

Three types of communities formed under Karnataka’s existing laws. In this, the third option seems to be better. This option envisaged in the KOFA is for the builder/promoter to form an association of owners under the KAOA.

KAOA requires the builder/promoter/owner of the apartment to execute a document known as the Deed of Declaration (DOD). This document describes the property (the building, all of its apartments and its common facilitates such as generators, fire fighting equipments, etc. along with the ownership scheme that lists the percentage share of each apartment.

Things to be registered:

Deed of Declaration
Copies of Plan approvals from local authorities.
Byelaws of the Association of owners

When the individual apartment owner goes to register their Deed of Apartment to complete their sale, the KAOA requires that the Deed of Apartment refers to the DoD (Includes the registration of the DoD, such as registration number, date, sub registrar’s office etc.) so that the ownership scheme is fully traceable and the title is clear.

Registrars and sub registrars are also expected to meet certain special requirements by the KAOA to preserve and update the information in an organized manner. In addition to the Deed of an Apartment, the purchases are also need to execute a declaration known as Form B, where they agree to abide by the rules of the KAOA.

Once the apartments are sold and registered, the builder is required to approach the Registrar of the co-operative society (Identified as the competent authority by the KAOA) with copies of the registered Deed of Declaration, byelaws, Deed of Apartments, and Form B declaration to register the association. In case of unsold apartments, the builder/promoter is allowed to represent those unsold flats. This process completes the formation of the association. The bye laws registered with the DoD become the byelaws of association and everything is set for smooth operation.

Votive Candles

2014-10-22T11:00:00.000-07:00

Votive Candles are small candles and used mainly for religious worship in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church. These candles do not give much of light. It is made from paraffin, beeswax, or other waxes. However, when cluster of these candles lit together, they give out good light around.

These votive candles are round in shape like any normal candles and they come in different sizes and lengths. These candles in the church are usually lit by visitors who come there for a prayer meeting. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, candles are lit before icons, usually of Jesus Christ or the Holy Theotokos. Usually Orthodox churches only use long, thin candles.

These are usually placed in round containers, having either various sockets to hold the candles, or in a container filled with sand, in which the worshipers place their candles.Orthodox churches will usually have a separate place to put candles lit for the departed; Roman Catholic churches make no such distinction.

Votive Candles are lit for prayer intentions. To "light a candle for someone" indicates one's intention to say a prayer for another person, and the candle symbolizes that prayer. A donation box intended to defer candle costs generally accompanies votive candles. In some churches, the donation is considered a mandatory contribution in exchange for lighting a candle.