New Delhi: IIM heads met today to find ways to raise funds to meet expansion plans and are understood to have decided to go ahead with setting up of development centres and start the process of relation building with philanthropists, industrialists and their alumni.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has decided to make attendance voluntary across all courses, starting with the first year students of this academic year.

Bangalore: With over 625,000 villages, rural India still dominates the country's landscape even as rapid urbanising is throwing up challenges for planners. To train people manage this massive social transformation and fill the critical human resource and knowledge gap, a group of eminent Indians is setting up a university.

The premier institute of technology has, for the first time, decided to auction board games created by its students in the market.

Indore: Indian Institute of Management Indore will launch from this academic session a five-year integrated post-graduate programme (PGP) in management for students passing class 12th or equivalent courses.

Ahmedabad: Non-resident Indians (NRIs) and international students planning to study at the Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB) may now be able to find counsellors at coffee shops like Starbucks or Barista outlets across the globe.

Chandigarh: Hit by rising incidents of campus violence, Panjab University (PU), one of the oldest varsities in the country, has taken some bold steps, including opening a webpage on trouble makers and asking new students for affidavits on their past record.

NIIT Chairman Rajendra Pawar explains why he’s building a new university in hot, dry Rajasthan

Washington: Indian American Anantha P. Chandrakasan has been named the new leader of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) largest academic department

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Former teacher of the school comes to the aide of students who were given LC by school management

To create job-ready talent, companies are launching their own schools

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with three Chinese universities, an official said Thursday.

Bangalore: Global supplier of technology and services Bosch group Thursday announced that it would set up a research facility at the premier Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in this technology hub with an investment of Rs.140 crore.

Harvard forfeits first place to the University of Cambridge in a league table of the world's top institutions, the first time in the list's seven year history that the Ivy League university has been knocked off the number one spot

Mumbai: Part of the Ahmedabad-based Bansal Group, Times Business School (TBS) has announced it foray into Gujarat with the launch of its campus in the city.

Jaipur : Rajasthan will start a massive drive across the state from July 1 to bring over a million school drop-outs back to the classroom, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said Thursday.

Bangalore: The Azim Premji Foundation, promoted by IT bellwether Wipro’s chairman Azim Premji, Wednesday tied up with Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to set up a school of education at the latter’s campus in Hyderabad for offering degrees and other related programmes.

The university will begin its academic year from a seven-room facility in Bhatagodi, Haveri

Chennai: The first joint project by French cement major Lafarge Group's research arm and the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) is expected to kick start soon, an official said here Wednesday.

Mumbai: Following the path of the likes of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and National Institute of Design (NID), the Ahmedabad University (AU) has launched VentureStudio, a new Center for Innovative Business Design in Ahmedabad in collaboration with Center for Design Research at Stanford University (CDR).

Kolkata: The finance sector ruled the final placements process at the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) with renowned firms from the field making up 31.3 per cent of the offers.

Kolkata: The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Sunday started classes from its Murshidabad campus in West Bengal with the first set of students for two-year MBA and five-year law programmes.

Kolkata: Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C), the oldest institute in the IIM system, saw participation of 25 companies on the first day of final placements for PGDBM students — a significant increase over last year.

New Delhi: He was just 33 years old when he found himself at the helm of a Delhi University college whose financial and administrative systems had collapsed and which had the dubious distinction of principals being ousted by student agitations. But a determined Rajendra Prasad, who completed 25 years in office last year, took it upon himself to make Ramjas College a top institution.

Hyderabad: EuroKids International Ltd, a Mumbai-based school education company, plans to expand its presence in the K-12 segment in the city by setting up two greenfield EuroSchools, one each in Hyderabad and Secunderabad, with an investment in the range of Rs 30-50 crore.

Kolkata: The Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) plans to utilise the Rs.20 crore special budgetary grant to help students do research in global finance markets and to upgrade its financial research and trading lab.

New Delhi: Jamia Milia Islamia University was granted minority institution status on Tuesday by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, a first for any central university which will allow it to reserve up to 50 per cent seats for Muslims.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has launched five new courses on gender and development commencing July, an official said Tuesday.

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Successful placements result in increased admissions this year

In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Central University of Tamil Nadu in Thiruvarur will offer an MA programme in Classical Tamil Studies from the next academic year.

In pursuance of its policy of expanding the choice of subjects available for students and enhance their employability opportunities, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to introduce Mass Media Studies as an elective subject at the senior secondary level (Class 12) from the current academic year.

Gurgaon: Women who often grapple with re-joining work after a sabbatical now have help on hand, courtesy a course offered by a business school here.

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Wednesday launched a two-year Master's course in Business Administration (MBA) programme in corporate governance, an official said.

Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar: Xavier Institute of Management-Bhubaneswar (XIMB), one of the premier B-schools in the country, has decided to roll out a one-year Global Management programme from September this year.

Chandigarh: The Haryana government has decided to provide paid internship to students of professional courses in different sections of the school education department in the state.

New York: To deal with the spurt of hate crimes against Muslims that have seen a 17-fold increase post 9/11 terror attacks in the US, a course will be offered here to identify the issues that encourage such crimes.

A new programme on watershed management has been launched by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), an official said.

A uniform core curriculum for the commerce stream at +2 level across school boards is expected to be implemented by 2012, the Council of Boards of School Education (COBSE) decided at its meeting on Tuesday in Ajmer. The draft of the curriculum has been readied by COBSE and will now be circulated amongst school boards for their views.

In an attempt to help chief information officers (CIOs) align with their companies better, Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB) has introduced a new course, called Global CIO Certification Programme, in association with the CIO Association of India.

New Delhi: Students at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will now have the freedom to choose the date and venue of their term-end examination with the introduction of 'On-Demand-Examinations'.

A school in UK has become the first to outsource its teaching to India where around 100 tutors from Punjab will give one-to-one lessons to 11-year olds who have fallen behind in Math.

IIM Ahmedabad’s post-graduate programme in public management & policy (PGPPMP) has been discontinued for the year — perhaps for longer.

Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaifa, Ranbir Kapoor are roped in to teach at IIMs

In a survey conducted by Careers360, IGNOU and SMU emerge as the top distance education institutes in India

Flying institutes are tailoring courses to enable corporates and the well-heeled clients to fly

IIM-K is revamping its flagship programme with tips from Stanford, Harvard and MIT

Sikkim Manipal University Distance Education (SMU-DE), the country’s leading distance education institute has announced the launch of a new course that of MBA in Banking and Finance. The course is aimed at graduates and engineers who would want to be at par with a fresh MBA and who would typically join the banking sector as assistant mangers.

New Delhi: In a joint initiative with Hughes Communications India Limited, the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) launched a new programme to equip professionals with management skills in all economic environments.

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University has come up with new courses in rehabilitation psychology and urban governance to create skilled manpower and train professionals.

New Delhi: An executive MBA, eight new finishing school courses and a B.Sc. IT for international market programme are now on the list of offerings at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

New Delhi: In a bid to meet the demand for tailor-made courses in the textile industry, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will soon offer specialised degree courses as well as short-term programmes in the field.

Gandhinagar: The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is developing a course for the management of sports organisations, an official said. IIM-A director Samir Barua said that the one-week course would be offered from the current academic year.

Former Indian Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao spoke Urdu, Marathi, Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit and Oriya with a fluency akin to a native speaker. That's not all. He also spoke foreign languages like French, Arabic, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin and Persian. How many do you speak?

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is going to start a two-week appreciation course on 'Food Safety and Quality' with the help of the Quality Council of India (QCI) and the School of Agriculture.