With the downgrading of USA credit rating and flimsy EU market, the apparition of double dip recession is looming large. Under this grim scenario, companies will embark on cutting cost as happened during the 2008 recession, which will badly affect the current international internships scene in India.

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Those who have delayed paying their fees to US universities, may end up paying Rs 50,000 to Rs 1,00,00 more, as the Indian currency hits a 2-year low.

Weak rupee to cost Indian students dear

With several changes introduced in the pattern of conducting the CAT 2011, students across India are wondering whether the examination would get easier or tougher. In an interview with Vinit Koneru, Vice Chairman &amp; Co-founder of CL Educate Ltd (formerly Career Launcher) Gautam Puri says what students could expect.

Q&A: Gautam Puri, Vice Chairman-Co-founder, CL Educate Ltd

US-based Harvard University has, in principle, agreed to partner with the Maharashtra government to provide training for its elected representatives, bureaucrats, executives and academicians on issues relating to governance and development. This will be the first time Harvard University has agreed to be part of such a venture in Maharashtra.

Mumbai calling: Harvard provides the answers

The proposed common admission test format for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs), could prove to be a damper for the Rs 10,000-crore coaching industry.

IIT CAT 2013: Hard lessons for private coaching centres

The nexus between IIT-JEE and the board subjects is well versed since the applications of the basics taught in higher secondary are tested in IIT. Giving equal weightage to the boardexams and JEE as well will deserve scorn from some elite aspirants who are full fledged committed to concentrate on IIT JEE.

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To Shobhit Tyagi, head of human resources (denim &amp; corporate) at Arvind Ltd, the hobbies of a B-school candidate matter more than his curriculum vitae.

All work with no play makes dull managers

Two years from now, the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) of the Delhi University will have a new address: The South Campus.

Faculty of Management Studies to have a new address in 2013

Takers of PhD programme look for an engrossing experience in their subject of interest and a career prospect that includes more respect and demand for their skills, the only impediment being their demand in the industry thereafter.

Simulation tools are increasingly becoming popular with B-schools, allowing students to raise their analytical skills to a higher level.

Games managers play in classrooms

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) is all set to get the go ahead with its plans to set up a medical school and hospital. According to sources, the Union HRD Ministry will table the amendment Bill to the IIT Act in the monsoon session of Parliament beginning August 1, to facilitate the oldest IIT in the country to teach medicine.

Bill for IIT-Kharagpur medical school in monsoon session

Despite being the initiative of IIM Indore, integrated programme is not the best strategic fit in the overall context of management education in India.

Shed the crammers tag and move beyond mugging up text books to merely score big, instead understand the subject and come up with something innovative.

New-look GRE braces innovation

The initiative by IIT-Kharagpur to get into medical education seems to be defying the purpose for which IITs were set up. The only probable reason for government to do so is to encash the brand of IIT.

Diversity of opinions is one of the most important requirements for any B-school and it comes not only through varied work experiences but also with gender. A man and a woman can see the same problems differently and come up with entirely unique solutions. Most of top 10 B-schools have around 10 per cent female students.

Mitali Patel, an MBA degree holder and a lecturer for four years recently appeared for an interview at a Gujarat-based management institute. Though she was offered the job, Patel walked out of the interview.

Colleges learn the art of cheating

Barely two months after the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, got autonomy, it announced a new five-year integrated programme in management (IPM). In spite of protests from other IIMs, institute Director N Ravichandran went ahead with his plans to introduce the programme after a Ministry of Human Resources and Development approval. Speaking to Vinay Umarji, Ravichandran talks about what made him venture into something no other IIM had tried so far.

Q&A: N Ravichandran, Director, IIM, Indore

It is taking tips from Stanford, Harvard and MIT for the revamp.

IIM-K changes curriculum, hopes it's a 'trendsetter'

IIMs are busy updating and revamping the existing curriculum for their two-year flagship post-graduate programme (PGP). They typically conduct a comprehensive review of the syllabus every 3-4 years to incorporate developments and changes in industries and the economy.

Other IIMs also join in

Singapore&rsquo;s diplomat-turned-writer Kishore Mahbubani is known for his provocative ideas on the &ldquo;power shift&rdquo; from the West to the East. To contribute in his own way to this &lsquo;power shift&rsquo;, Mahbubani has built what is so far a unique &ldquo;Asian&rdquo; institution in the field of public policy, to compete with Harvard&rsquo;s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and the Science Po in Paris.

Asian school beefs up Indian bureaucracy

After focusing on the Indian market, the Delhi-based Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) is now spreading its wings. The institute recently inaugurated its Africa Business Cell to bring business leaders to India to promote partnerships and encourage entrepreneurship.

IIFT inaugurates African business cell

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