27th September 2017
ILC-I, as UN INIA's Satellite Centre for the SAARC region is glad to announce that the admission for the United Nations' International Institute on Ageing, Malta's (UN INIA) Certificate Course on “Social Gerontology” is now open.
This Certificate Course is to be held from the 4th to 8th of December 2017 at the campus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad, Telangana, India, and is in collaboration with ILC-I (as UN INIA's Satellite Centre for the SAARC Region) and TISS.
This course is open to only SAARC nationals.
For admissions please visit ILC-India website : www.ilcindia.org
Attached: the Flyer for the course.
Written by ANJALI RAJE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ILC-I.
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