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Hurdles remain for foreign univs to set up India campuses
Criteria like world ranking and not-for-profit tag might act as deterrents
 "Hurdles remain for foreign univs to set up India campuses")
Staff crunch: IITs create faculty war chest
India's premier engineering institutions are creating a pool of PhDs that would benefit all engineering institutions
 "Staff crunch: IITs create faculty war chest")
Students' corner
Should IITs do a rethink on the new IIT-JEE pattern and change it?
Institute to find jobs for 5,000 chartered accountant passouts
A course in chartered accountancy, it seems is the best bet during the slowdown
Pre-placement offers usher in hope for mid-rung B-schools
Mid-rung B-schools, however, accept that market conditions have been tough, with fears of recruitment freezing
 "XLRI opens admissions for virtual interactive learning programmes")
Registrations for XAT 2014 to be on till November 22
The test duration has been extended to 3 hours from 2.20 hours
 "Registrations for XAT 2014 to be on till November 22")
 "IIM-A: Ashish Nanda's global experience would be the key")
Pre-placement offers ring in optimism for IIMs
Older IIMs say they are insulated from external market situation
 "Pre-placement offers ring in optimism for IIMs")
Students not affected by new JEE pattern: MHRD
Says percentiles are a good basis of comparing different boards and they are non-discriminatory
 "Students not affected by new JEE pattern: MHRD")
NISM's Rs 400-cr campus to be ready by 2015
The 70-acre facility in Navi Mumbai aims to increase the number of courses, cater to foreign students
 "NISM's Rs 400-cr campus to be ready by 2015")
CCEA approves IIT Hyderabad collaboration project with Japan govt
Project aims at creating value addition through collaborative interactions with academics and industry of Japan
India calling for international institutes
Many management institutes from abroad have firmed up their expansion plans in the last few months
 "India calling for international institutes")
Industrial relations 'dirty' term for B-school graduates
Management institutes, manufacturing companies blame each other for dearth of such personnel management professionals
 "Industrial relations 'dirty' term for B-school graduates")