Source: The Hindu Business Line, Mar 04, 2012
Hyderabad: An additional capacity of 10 million seats will be created in higher education during the 12th Plan which will commence from April 1, according to Dr Narendra Jadav, Member, Planning Commission.
Delivering Dr B L Maheshwari Memorial Lecture at the Centre for Organisational Development here, Dr Jadav said enrolments in higher education in the country were 20 million besides four million in the distance mode of learning.
Source: The Economic Times, Sept 20, 2011
NEW DELHI: Singapore-based Global Schools Foundation plans to start 25 schools in India over the next five years. The foundation, which owns and operates Global Indian International Schools (GIIS) and Global School of Silicon Valley (GSSV) across eight countries, will invest more than 300 crore to start schools in India.
Source: The Economic Times, Sept 02, 2011
Lucknow: The Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow has signed an MoU with the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, USA for extensive research and student/faculty exchange programme. Both the institute’s would have a long term relationship in their pursuit of excellence in global business education. They would also explore the possibility of launching a dual degree program which would be designed and developed by both institutes and would primarily be taught at IIM-Lucknow’s Noida campus by faculty members from both the institutes.
Source: The Hindu Business Line, Jun 26, 2011
Kozhikode: The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM-K), is holding a conference in association with the global organisation of Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) on July 9.
Source: Business Standard, May 23, 2011
Mumbai: The ministry of human resource development (MHRD) is considering allowing educational institutions to float bond issues for fund generation.
“At present, we are working on some of these ideas. We are also thinking of a national education finance corporation, which can tap into a lot of such resources. We will try to put it all together and work it out as a strategy in the new scheme in the 12th Five-year Plan,” a senior MHRD official told Business Standard. A widely-accepted concept in the West, a bond issue allows institutions to tap into the vast pool of not only their alumni network, but also people who wish to do their bit for the education sector.
Source: Business Standard, Apr 28, 2011
After a lacklustre response during the recessionary period, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are back to attracting working professionals to the campuses for one year management programmes.
Batch sizes at the IIMs have risen 20 – 40 per cent this year. The IIMs which conduct one year post graduate programme for executives, say the rise is a natural outcome of successful placements of last year and there is a considerable rise in applications as well as batch size.
Source: Business Standard, Mar 25, 2011
Mumbai: India Inc, specially start-ups, are rolling out the goodies like never before in engineering and business school campuses. Salary hike isn’t enough anymore, it’s time for stock options, promise of deferred entrepreneurship and much more.
Source: Business standard, Mar 18, 2011
New Delhi: In a breather to about 545 business schools in the country, the Supreme Court today gave a stay order for a year on a notification on admission and fees issued by the All- India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
In December 2010, AICTE had issued a notification on post-graduate diploma in management (PGDM) courses with eight guidelines. Of these, its proposal to regulate the fee and course curriculum of all the B-schools was the most contested. Though the final verdict is yet to be released, legal counsels for the Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI), which challenged the AICTE guidelines, and AICTE have confirmed the move.
Source: The Economic Times, Mar 10, 2011
NEW DELHI: The 24 percent hike in the outlay for education announced in the union budget will not help the sector because what is needed is a change in mindset, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday.
Source: Business Standard, Feb 16, 2011
Mumbai/ Pune: The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS), has tied up with city based Europe Asia Business School (EABS) and academic service provider Global talent Track (GTT) for setting up center for services excellence which will offer study programmes in IT and management. This center is envisaged to jointly conduct research as well as to offer multi-disciplinary academic programs in India. The first of the courses to be launched in 2011.
