After supplying Micro Electrical Mechanical System-based (MEMS-based) Inertial Navigation System to the Navy and the Airforce, Whirlybird Electronics, the co-incubated company of Indian Institute Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), is looking for markets in the automation and automobile industry.

IIM, IIT incubatee to explore fresh markets

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Eureka Forbes has launched a subsidiary, E4 Development and Coaching, to impart skill-based education in sales.

Eureka Forbes offers a course in sales

The Indian economy has run into rough weather. B-schools, however, are not feeling the pinch, since companies are increasingly sending mid- and senior-level executives to management schools for skill

Business schools make merry in economic slowdown

Working in the education sector was always a weekend activity, not a potential employment avenue.

Education ventures mean serious business for IIM, IIT graduates

The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) will act as the mentor for IIT-Orissa and admit 120 additional students seeking admission in IIT-Orissa in the 2008-09 academic year.

IIT-KGP to mentor IIT-Orissa for 3 years

F or those who want to think beyond an MBA in Finance, HR or Marketing, there is some good news.

MBA specialisations: The road less travelled

The Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry's proposal to set up an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) exclusively for girls has intrigued the faculty and management of existing IITs.

An all-girl IIT will face faculty issue

With the UPA government announcing that it would set up eight new IITs as part of the 11th Five-Year Plan and the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) deciding to open six new IITs this year itself, there will now be around 6,800-odd seats available for the engineering students.

`The new IITs would need our assistance for at least five yrs`

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT company, has selected a whopping total of 1,075 students of VIT University after a very rigorous screening in the first slot for the 2009 June passing out batch.

TCS creates record at VIT

One of the country's most reputed universities - the University of Pune - has passed an ordinance which allocates 70 per cent of its seats in all its master's degree programmes to students completing bachelor's degree courses from Pune, Ahmednagar and Nashik districts, which fall under its jurisdiction.

Pune varsity reserves 70% quota for locals

The Maharashtra government's "counter sales" courses for the big retail chains have met with a huge success with the first batch of 2,000 students being completely absorbed by the industry.

Maharashtra govt`s `counter sales` course a big hit with retail chains

The institute is sure to figure in the top bracket on the FT MBA global rank list for B-schools after its executive programme completes three years in 2009.

IIM-A maps global pathway

International exposure and the opportunity to learn things not usually taught in a single institute make double degrees valuable.

Institutes, students take to dual degrees

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have decided to create more chairs in the institutes to help professors top up their salaries.

IITs, IIMs to reward professors with more faculty chairs

Cambridge university&#39;s relationship with India has evolved to a partnership and has come to be based on reciprocity, Sandra Dawson tells Mark Tully
When Sandra Dawson, KPMG Professor of Management Studies at Cambridge, left school she decided she didn&#39;t want to have anything to do with Britain&#39;s ancient universities.

'It would be impossible not to be interested in India & China'

Even as the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) get ready to implement the 27 per cent Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation quota from the upcoming academic session, the pan-IIM Alumni Association has decided to challenge the order.

Pan-IIM Alumni Association challenges OBC quota verdict

For students aspiring to take up post graduate studies at Canada and getting a work permit subsequently, there is good news.

Canada relaxes work permit rules

The Indian student&#39;s dream foreign university is usually either from the UK or US.

Singapore: An emerging destination for Indian students

Companies come up with new ways to increase their involvement in B-schools to make sure they are able to interact first-hand with potential employees.

Firms increase role on campus

The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Gandhinagar will soon set up an incubation centre for jewellery design at its campus.

Jewellery incubator soon at NIFT Gandhinagar

Almost 40 years after it first mooted the idea of getting converted into an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), Varanasi, is now ready to don the IIT tag.

Banaras Hindu University set to get IIT tag

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