XLRI Jamshedpur has hiked its two-year post-graduate-programme (PGP) fee by around 18 per cent for the 2009 batch onwards. In an interview with PRADIPTA MUKHERJEE, the institute&rsquo;s director E Abraham, S J, said the institute this year will focus on initiating collaborations with international universities and offering more incentives to encourage research studies.

&#39;The placement scenario has been difficult this year&#39;

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Israel-based Tel Aviv University&lsquo;s Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration is offering the Sofaer International MBA (SIMBA) programme to Asian, Indian and Arab students to neutralise the Middle East conflict through a shared philosophy of commerce.

Tel Aviv varsity to offer MBA to Asian, Arabs

Executive education, where organisations rather than individual students generally foot the bill, has been hit hard as corporate budgets come under ever tighter scrutiny. However, while number of students being sponsored by a company for management education has seen a drop of nearly 20 per cent, placements for these executives is still better off compared to the two-year post graduate programme (PGP) students.

Executive education sees poor response, lower salary offers

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad&rsquo;s (IIM-A) efforts to replenish its dwindling corpus seems to finally reaping benefits. Even as IIM-A sets a target of raising Rs 250 crore by December 2011, the premier B-school has received a contribution committment of Rs 2.3 crore from its 1989 batch, making it arguably the largest single gift by any batch to any management institution.

IIM-A '89 batch pledges highest-ever alumni contribution of Rs 2.3 crore

It&rsquo;s an unprecedented trend and a far cry from the days when B-schools students would change jobs a mere six months after being placed by their institutes.

ISB, IIM students place resumes on job portals

Under the chairmanship of billionaire Mukesh Ambani, the board of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B) is setting up a committee to help it raise funds to finance its various academic ventures on the campus. The IIM-B board, which met on April 2, took a final decision in this regard.

IIM-B to set up committee to raise Rs 100 cr

Vidyamandir Classes (VMC), a premier IITJEE coaching organisation, has formed a six-year partnership with IT training company New Horizons and education technology solutions provider, 100 Percentile, to offer coaching to IIT JEE aspirants. A division of New Horizons called IIT Study Circle (IITSC) will offer coaching to students while VMC will provide the learning support by designing the course content.

Vidyamandir to coach IIT-JEE aspirants

* Mumbai: Indian Merchants' Chamber (IMC) to organise an interactive meeting with Urvashi Ramnarine, first secretary, High Commission of Trinidad &amp; Tobago, at Babubhai Chinai Committee Room, 2nd Floor, IMC, Churchgate. Time: 11.30am.

Result season kicks off in earnest

When Pradyumna Vyas took over the charge from Akhil Succena as director of National Institute of Design (NID), he had already set a roadmap for taking the design institute to a global platform. Armed with a masters in design from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Vyas has an experience of 25 years in the field of design and has been the principal designer at NID before taking over as its head. In an exclusive interview with Vinay Umarji and Chitra Unnithan, Vyas shares his future plans for the institute.

'Design is not only for the elite'

On the heels of the fee hike by the premier Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), second-rung B-Schools, too, have hiked their fee from anywhere between 10 and 50 per cent this year. For most non-IIMs, the increase in fee this year follows the hike in salaries of University Grants Commission (UGC) scale faculty members.

B-schools hike fees further on account of faculty pay hike

B-schools are now looking at entrepreneurship channels for their students on the back of the economic slowdown. However, Uday Salunkhe, Director, Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research says there is more to entrepreneurship. In an interview with KIRTIKA SUNEJA, he speaks about the placement scenario and elaborates on innovation helps entrepreneurship.

'We will double our spend on research this year'

The global financial slowdown, perhaps for the first time in recent years, has forced premier B-school IIM-B to extend the placement process for the second week, which otherwise would have been completed in the first week itself. Industry sources say this is the problem with most other IIMs as there is not much of demand for the elite management graduates this year.

IIM-B extends placement for second week

As private companies shy away from B-school campuses this year, public sector units (PSUs) are filling in this gap. B-schools say they have seen between 20 and 50 per cent jump in the registration of PSUs which have come to the campuses to recruit students.

Public sector undertakings venture where private companies fear to tread

The slowdown seems to have brought along a general sentiment among companies to recruit fewer students from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), this year. However, even as companies having a long-standing recruiting partnership with the campus seem to be hiring fewer recruits, the silver lining is that the total number of companies visiting IIM-A has gone up this year.

Inviting more cos pays off for IIM-A

While venture capitalists (VCs) are reluctant to fund several entrepreneurial ideas this year, a few of the country&rsquo;s B-schools are helping student entrepreneurs to go ahead with their own ventures by providing seed funds, mentorship and using the alumni network to raise funds and get in touch with useful contacts.

B-schools assist student-entrepreneurs

Engineering aspirants from Himachal Pradesh have a reason to rejoice. The government has accepted the proposal to set up an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Mandi in HP. The Rs 760 crore institute is expected to begin its first session from this year.

IIT in Himachal to begin session this year

However, 4 students get Rs 1 crore-plus offers.

IIM-C offers dip 10-20%

He had a job to do...to get jobs for some of the best brains in the country amid the global recession. Samir Barua, director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has gone against the tide and got placed almost all the students of post graduate programme in management (PGP) and agri business management (PGP-ABM) at the recently concluded placements.

&#39;The next 2 yrs are going to be tough for us&#39;

Even as most of the students at the Indian School of Business are busy with the placements happening at the campus, a set of students are not participating in the recruitment drive &mdash; they want to be entrepreneurs. ISB this year would produce more number of entrepreneurs than before, thanks to the market swings which resulted in a fewer companies coming to the campus and therefore fewer offers this year.

More entrepreneurs at ISB this year

If last year it was rupee appreciation that took a toll on placements at textile and fashion institutes, it is the economic slowdown this year that has forced them to adopt damage control measures. Institutes like National Institute of Fashion Technology and National Institute of Design have been forced to stretch placements in two phases spanning close to six months.

Fashion institutes stretch placements

Project delayed by two years due to land-acquisition tussle.

Vedanta varsity to open by 2011

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