| Rs. 64 Lakh foreign offer crowns IIFT placements this year |
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| Job offers from international companies are flooding Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) as the B-school got 100% placements for this year’s batch of 204. The highest international offer was for Rs 64 lakh per annum while the institute also saw better job offers from domestic companies. The talent acquisition programme saw companies... 17 Mar 2012 |
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| No Long Queues, DU Admissions to go online |
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| Delhi University aspirants needn’t run around or even be in the city to apply to colleges of their choice this summer. What’s more, an SMS will tell them which colleges they have made it to. If DU accepts the recommendations of its high-powered panel for changes in the admission system, the application process will go online and be... 14 Mar 2012 |
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| CET limited to IITs, a few other colleges |
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| The government’s plan to introduce a common national examination for undergraduate engineering courses across the country will have to be curtailed with the test applicable only for central technical institutions from next year as at least five states have objected to the proposal.The states, including Tamil Nadu and Bengal, opposed the move and... 13 Mar 2012 |
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| AICTE may shut door on new colleges |
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| With supply outstripping demand for engineering and management seats, the country may stop new professional colleges coming up from 2014. This firm stand was taken recently at a meeting of the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the country’s inspector which grants permission to new professional technical colleges. The decision... 02 Mar 2012 |
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| 2cr Indian kids study in English-medium schools |
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| The last eight years have seen a staggering rise in the number of children studying in English-medium schools across the country. Data on school enrolment for 2010-11 shows that, for the first time, the number of children enrolled in English-medium schools from classes I to VIII has crossed the two crore mark--a 274% rise since 2003-04.
For the fourth... 02 Mar 2012 |
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| Dream Vocation |
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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life, said Confucius, the famous Chinese philosopher. Successful people, from different walks of life, endorse this philosophy and stress on the need to let our passions guide us in our choice of career
All of us have the potential of greatness... 31 Jan 2012 |
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| Heave a Sigh as NEET 2012 Cancelled |
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| National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), a single national level entrance test for admissions to MBBS and dental undergraduate courses in all medical colleges of India will not be held in 2012. Central Board of Secondary education (CBSE) has withdrawn its proposal from the Supreme Court on January 9, 2012. CBSE took this decision after the Supreme... 23 Jan 2012 |
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| Rajasthan Scrapped MAT from 2013 |
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| The Department of Technical Education (DTE) has now decided to scrap Rajasthan Management Aptitude Test (RMAT) conducted by Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) from 2013. DTE, Rajasthan has now decided to accept CMAT scores for admissions from next year.
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| Scramble for nursery seats from Monday |
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"Admission Process for 2012-13 Session Begins"
New Delhi: The new year has arrived with a challenge for parents of three-year-olds in the city. The nursery admission process for the 2012-13 session is going to start from Monday with most private recognized schools starting the sale and submission of application forms.
Most... 05 Jan 2012 |
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| SC raps govt, MCI on entrance test |
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday embarrassed the government and Medical Council of India (MCI) by forcing them to withdraw their pleas for one-year deferment of the first ever National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2012, a single examination for MBBS and dental undergraduates seats in all medical colleges across the country. While... 19 Dec 2011 |
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| DU Mulls Ways to Make Cutoffs Realistic |
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| New Delhi: The Delhi University admission process is set to change again. After experimenting with admissions without forms this year, which led to crazy cutoffs and repeated lists, the varsity may limit the number of colleges a student can apply to during admissions next year.
That is one of the suggestions being considered by a high-powered committee instituted... 14 Dec 2011 |
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| GMAT to Debut with New Format in June’ 2012 |
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| Change After 17 Years, Will Measure New Skills
Bangalore: If you want to ace GMAT - the key to the world\'s best B-schools - it\'s time you start honing your visual interpretation, too. The Graduate Management Admission Council announced the components of the new format which will debut in the June 2012 NextGen GMAT.... 13 Dec 2011 |
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| Manage it |
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| Management students and institutes have realized the importance of managing stress in real business environment
Are there moments when you’ve felt dizzy trying to switch gears between the urgent email, the critical deadline and the important presentation, all of which seem to demand attention simultaneously? This scenario, familiar... 01 Dec 2011 |
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| M for Management |
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| An MBA is the most coveted degree across the world. It opens the doors to many opportunities in management across various sectors
It’s no more just about finance, banking and Human Resources. MBA education has spread its wings and has entered sectors that 20 years back, people would not have imagined possible. As for Bangalore, the... 01 Dec 2011 |
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| The leader in you |
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| Business is aspiration in life and not just a job to make your living. A career in business impacts life and perhaps changes your life. A sales man works to make living and an aspiring business manager sells to build business. As you aspire for a business career, look within and ask yourself – do you bring that passion and challenge in you or... 30 Nov 2011 |
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| IIT reforms leave problems of vacant seats unaddressed |
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| New Delhi: The reforms initiated by the Joint Admission Board (JAB) of IIT for the prestigious Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) have glossed over a couple of key issues. Many seats remain vacant and some students are denied a second attempt to appear in JEE since they deposited a part of the admission fee, but did not join as the curse offered was not... 30 Nov 2011 |
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| A new chapter |
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| Management education is the most significant driver for young men and women for a successful and ambitious career – after engineering and medical education.
The focus of the curriculum has undergone incremental upgradation but the core structure, theoretical frameworks and assumptions about management education has remained the same.... 30 Nov 2011 |
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| Why do an MBA? |
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| Employers are increasingly using the MBA degree as a screening tool in hiring. For highly ranked consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company and the search engine giant Google, MBA graduating classes are optimal places to find new professional staff. This trend is now felt far outside the consulting realm as telecommunication, finance and manufacturing... 29 Nov 2011 |
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| Thinking out-of-the-box |
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| B-Schools need to have a bold new vision in developing and delivery mechanism of the curriculum. B-schools educate and train for management practices. The students should undergo a experience that would challenge their current perspectives and assumptions, inculcate innovation in thinking and leadership, establish new skills and talent, develop judgment... 29 Nov 2011 |
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| US Students in India up 45% this year |
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| Chennai: The number of US students coming to India this year has jumped nearly 45% with more Americans opting for short-term courses - a semester or a subject with a popular professor or college. But their total number is still belw 4,000 - a small fraction of the over- 1 lakh Indian students going to the US every year.
“Especially, doctorate... 24 Nov 2011 |
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| India Presence |
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| The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, is opening offices in New Delhi and Bangalore to establish partnerships with universities and research institutions in India. UBC\'s New Delhi office will be opened in partnership with the University of Toronto (U of T) while the Bangalore office will be led by UBC\'s Sauder School of Business.... 15 Nov 2011 |
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| PG Exams Decentralized |
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| Delhi University has decided to decentralize its PG exams from this year. Vishakha Sharma reports
The postgraduate examinations in Delhi University (DU) will be decentralized from the next semester examination, scheduled to begin from the last week of November 2011. The decision, which was taken by the university’s administration, will... 14 Nov 2011 |
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| Online registration for IIT JEE 2012 from today |
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| NEW DELHI: The online registration for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2012 is starting on Monday. Aspiring students can log on to the IIT website to fill up the form for JEE, which will be held on April 8 next year. However, the forms will be available over the counter only from November 11. The last date for registering online is December 10. The... 12 Nov 2011 |
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| 35% the Cut-off for Entry to IITs |
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| NEW DELHI: Candidates aspiring to crack JEE 2012 will have to score at least 10% marks in each of the three subjects and a minimum aggregate of 35% to figure on the common rank list for admission to IITs.
The Joint Admission Board (JAB) of IITs decided to fix the minimum marks required to crack JEE in a meeting on Tuesday. Last... 21 Oct 2011 |
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| PSUs to Recruit on GATE Score |
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| NEW DELHI: The maharatna and the navratna PSUs have decided to recruit fresh graduates of various engineering colleges based on their Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) score from next year\'s placement season.
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| Govt. Decided No Common PG Medical Entrance Test |
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The Government has decided not to hold the common PG medical entrance test next year as proposed earlier, citing lack of resources and expertise. The National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for all postgraduate medical seats across the country will now be held only in 2013, given the lack of resources and expertise required to conduct the examination... 20 Oct 2011 |
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| E-Learning in DU Colleges Likely By Next Month |
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| New Delhi, October 8
Delhi University\'s ambitious plan of launching the "Virtual Learning Environment" - an online portal to host e-lessons and other learning materials for its students -is likely to be launched within a month. The portal, to be launched by the Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL), Delhi University, has e-lessons,... 10 Oct 2011 |
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| 2.05 Lakh Aspirants Registered For Cat 2011 |
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| Registrations for the Common Admission Test (CAT), 2011, the Gateway to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), were marginally up at 2.05 lakh compared with 2.04 lakh in 2010.The cities in which the highest number of candidates are scheduled to take the Online Test between October 22, 2011 and November 18, 2011 are New Delhi, Bangalore,... 09 Oct 2011 |
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| JEE Could Be In New Format In 2013 |
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| The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are all set to bring a whole new change in the pattern of Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) organised every year across the country. The changed exam pattern would be followed from the year 2013.
The new pattern of JEE would include conducting an aptitude test for the exam aspirants. The students will have to crack... 07 Oct 2011 |
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| DU Gets Court Notice For Not Holding Supplementary Exams |
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| New Delhi: Delhi high court has issued a notice to Delhi University seeking its reply on a petition filed by a law student for direction to hold supplementary examination in each semester in order to give another opportunity to students to clear their papers.
"Why will LLB students, who are in IInd and IVth semesters, not be allowed... 07 Oct 2011 |
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