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BKs get into the Business of Education

Post13 Jun 2011

Annamalai University in Technical Collaboration with Brahma Kumaris is offering the following Courses for year 2011:
    MBA (Self Management & Crisis Management) - 2 year programme
    Diploma in Value Education & Spirituality - 1 year programme
    PG Diploma in Value Education & Spirituality - 1 year programme
    MSc in Value Education & Spirituality (Lateral Entry) - 1 year programme
Eligibility:
    For MBA: Any Degree
    For Diploma: Plus Two
    For PG Diploma: Any Degree
    For MSc VES (Lateral): PG Dip in Value Education & Spirituality
The application form & prospectus for applying for the courses will be available through those Brahma Kumaris Centres which conduct Personal Contact Programme (PCP), i.e., PCP centres. One can contact the nearest PCP centres in your city.

Otherwise, Application form plus prospectus can also be had by post from:
    Programme Director, Distance Education Programme,
    Brahma Kumaris, 36 Meenakshi Nagar,
    Behind P&T Nagar, Madurai-625017 (Tamil Nadu)
by sending a DD in favour of "Director, DDE, Annamalai University" drawn on any bank payable at Chennai.

It is best to collect the Prospectus from the nearest BK PCP centre as it avoids sending DD & postage charges.

Course Fee Details (This is apart from prospectus fees):

    MBA: Rs. 14,500 (1st year) + Rs. 14,000 (2nd year) = Total Rs. 28,500
    PG Diploma VES: Rs. 3,500
    MSc (Lateral Entry): Rs.8,500
    Diploma VES: Rs. 2000
Compulsory Personal Contact Programme (CPCP) Duration:
    MBA: 8 days (single spell) out of which 7 days is minimum
    PG Dip: 12 days out of which 10 days is minimum
    MSc (Lateral): 12 days (All 12 days attendance compulsory)
    Diploma: 5 days out of which 4 days is minimum
Folder Front page has details of MBA (Self Management & Crisis Managment)
Folder Back page has details of Diploma, PG Diploma, MSc (Lateral) in Value Education & Spirituality.

Last Date for sending in filled application is September 30th 2011.
Application can be sent to Programme Director, Distance Education Programmes,
Brahma Kumaris, Madurai.

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Do inform your friends, relatives etc. about the above programmes which are the first of the kind in the world. MBA Course mostly will certainly be useful for those who are working.
    B.K.Pandiamani
    The Programme Director,
    Distance Education Programmes,
    Brahma Kumaris, RE&RF.
    E-Mail: bkpandiamani@gmail.com
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Post13 Jun 2011

Brian Bacon's "Self Management Leadership (SML)" has become "Self Managing Leadership (SML)", to which they add a little bit of Tamasin's Ramsay's "Disaster Response" work ... the rest? Who knows. At $ 635, or 28,500 Rupees, it is a hell of a cheap MBA for a Westerner but still more than a year's wages for an average Indian.

Brahma Kumaris Retreat Centers get renamed "PCP Centres" and "The Seven Day Course (Bhatti)" is still in the mix as "which conduct "Personal Contact Programmes (PCP)". It is weird ... a BK course of study which you have to pay for but for which you get a qualification from at the end. Let us suspect they have someone 'in on the inside' of the University offering this. All the "graduates" in the photo appear to be BK virgins with their proud Lakshmi and Narayan badges, so I suspect the chief byproduct is "qualified" ShivShaktis. It is a distance learning university rather than a real one.

Big Borther Mruthyunjaya most folks have down as being one of the inner circle that really runs the BKWSU.
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Post09 Aug 2011

Is there any link between the terrorists and the Brahma Kumaris?

Dr.Mirza Ahmed Baig (34) is an accused in Ahmedabad serial blasts case. Mirza who has an MBBS degree, has been in the jail for almost three years now.

A few months after he was lodged here, he got himself enrolled in ‘Value Education and Spirituality’, a post-graduate diploma course offered by Brahma Kumaris in association with Annamalai University.
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Post09 Aug 2011

diwali wrote:BK in Chile has created a "School of Raja Yoga", the course will have 50 people for 5 months, attracting more followers and getting more contacts to the lobby of the sect.

BK is charging a minimum of 500,000 Chilean pesos, slightly more than 1 thousand U.S. dollars (if there are 50 people doing the "course") = 25,000,000 pesos, about 55 thousand U.S. dollars of profit.

Angelica Fanjul Hermosilla is the "director" of the "school" in Chile. The address on the page is the "main center" in Santiago de Chile.
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Post30 Nov 2011

truly_awake wrote:Is there any link between the terrorists and the Brahma Kumaris?

No, but I suspect the same fanatical mindset definitely helps.

The Brahma Kumaris PR machine is working overtime as usual ... another 4 other terrorists, including Safdar Nagori who is best known as the SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) man who masterminded the serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, got top marks alongside a gang rapist on one of their courses. It hard to find such a connection 'funny' but a corrupt policeman could not even get into the top ten.

On the Time of India website, someones in India (not me) make interesting comments ...
FriendlyFire wrote:
Nagori has not become a Brahmakumari. He remains a Muslim.

If you have ever seen a brainwashed Brahmakumari preach, you will see that even Hindus avoid them because they take up so much of your time haranguing about how their leader is God.

jaycdp wrote:
brahmakumaris behaving like christians and going to jail looking for converts.....please go to google and look for brahmakumaris info.....the splinter group PBKs accused them for being corrupt, and looting money from people who surrendered. there was a concern that they look for dowry from every lady who is surrendered to the group. PBKs claim that root of all Islam is in brahmakumaris.
SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) Safdar Nagori passes 'spiritual test'

Ahmedabad: Safdar Nagori is best known as the SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) man who masterminded the serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad in 2008. Three years later, he is reported to have not just passed a post-graduate diploma course in value education and spirituality but also topped it.

According to a report published in a leading daily on Wednesday, 38-year-old Nagori studied the course, which includes Yoga lessons and is jointly run by Brahma Kumaris and Annamalai University's distance education wing, while spending time in the Sabarmati Central Jail. The SIMI man topped the course with 87% marks. The second position was claimed by Atul Patel, who is in jail in connection with the infamous Patan gang rape case, with 85% marks.

Not just that, among the top five three are Ahmedabad serial blasts accused.

Interestingly, Indian Police Service (IPS) officer DG Vanzara who has been suspended and is in jail in connection with the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, couldn’t make it to the top 10 and ended up 11th.

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Post10 Mar 2015

Diploma & Advanced Diploma in values & Spiritual Education.

With some interesting points.
Learning Method

The students of the open university do not go to the college everyday. They do not have regular time for their studies. The open university has independently developed a learning method for such students. This
method has the following components:
    ● Self-Instructional text books,
    ● Counselling during contact sessions at the
    study centre by the subject experts.
Programme Fees
    ■ Diploma in Values & Spiritual Education
    ( First Year of B.A. in V&SE)
    Academic & Administative Fees Rs. 1800
    Examination Fees Rs. 700
    Total Rs. 2500
    ■ Advanced Diploma in Values & Spiritual Education (Second Year of B.A. in V&SE)
    Academic & Administative Fees Rs. 2300
    Examination Fees Rs. 700
    Total Rs. 3000
5. Evaluation
    1. The students who could not clear some subjects in their previous attempt, can clear those subjects along with the students of the next batch. They will be allowed to take admission to the next year. In case of the examination of the papers which they could not clear, a minimum fee of Rs. 400/- will be charged irrespective of the number of papers given.

    3. There will be counselling sessions for each subject. The students can clear their doubts with the discussions with their counsellors. It is very necessary that every student should attend the counselling sessions. The total duration of contact sessions for all the subjects would be of 10 days.

    No admission form will be received/accepted at the university headquarters/Regional centres under any
    circumstances. Forms should also not be sent by post or courier in any case.

    7. The admission fee receipt will not be issued by the Study Centre or University. The Bank challan will
    itself serve as the fee receipt.
4. Student cannot change the study centre till the completion of the course.


http://ycmou.digitaluniversity.ac/WebFiles/Prospectus_Values&SpiritualEducation2014-15.pdf

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