The premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will mentor smaller entrepreneurship cells across engineering and management institutes.

IITs, IIMs to mentor entrepreneurship cells

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The Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) has increased the fee for its two-year post-graduate programme to Rs 9 lakh. The Rs 4 lakh increase, applicable from this session, comes a year after the increase in fee by other IIMs. IIM-C is also increasing its need-based scholarship fund and stipend for research scholars.

&#39;Increase in fees will help us break even&#39;

The All India Management Association (AIMA)-administered test for admissions to B-schools in India, the Management Aptitude Test (MAT), will go online from September. The online MAT will be conducted in addition to the regular MAT.

MAT to go online

NAAC is studying university ranking systems worldwide to identify parameters.

Indian varsities will be ranked

At a time when most B-schools are slashing annual festival budgets because corporate sponsorships are drying up, IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) has increased its budget by nearly 20 per cent for its four

IIM-C fests insulated from downturn

Mumbai Business School (MBS), which is all set to launch officially this month, is finalising collaboration with leading universities like Georgia State University, Atlanta USA, for executive

Mumbai Business School set for launch

The All India Management Association (AIMA), the apex body of management schools in India, plans to go global by forming alliances with foreign universities like Yale and INSEAD.

AIMA to collaborate with foreign universities

Gurgaon-based Pearl School of Business (PSB) is planning to set up a new campus at Knowledge Park, Greater Noida. The institute has already bought five-acre land at the proposed new location.

PSB plans Rs 50 crore campus in Noida

The recession is beginning to affect final placements at premier B-schools and IITs. Recruiters are maintaining last year&rsquo;s salary levels.

No increase in salaries this year

The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has made its placement procedure more favourable for firms.

IIM-A looks at new sectors for lateral placements

The University of Cambridge has announced a new scholarship programme for Indian students in honour of Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister.

Cambridge offers scholarship to honour PM

Lateral placements (placements for those with work experience of around 2 years) have begun in B-schools across the country. However, information technology (IT) firms seem to be keeping away from campuses.

IT companies keep away

The recession is beginning to affect final placements at premier B-schools and IITs. Recruiters are maintaining last year&rsquo;s salary levels. Students have also toned down their salary expectations during the final placement season this year. Most expect similar salaries as last year, instead of the 30 per cent annual increase that has been the norm.

B-schools reel under recession

Lateral and final placements at tier-II management institutes this year have been lacklustre as companies opt out of placements or are unsure of how many candidates they would look at hiring this year. The broad trends so far include fewer offers compared to last year, and similar salaries instead of a traditional 30 per cent increase year-on-year.

Tepid response to tier-II B-school placements

Around 20 companies visited the campus of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) so far in the final campus recruitment process which kicked off on January 15 this year. The management institute has so far been able to secure placements for 80-90 students of its current batch of Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in management, consisting of 120 students.

BFSI offers take a dip at XIMB

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) is organising a Management Development Programme (MDP) for officers in the Indian Administrative and Allied Services. The course will provide these officers an overview of the World Trade Organisation, the New Trade Regime and its institutional structure.

IIFT launches MDP for IAS officers

Industry honchos like Analjit Singh, chairman Max India; Yogesh Andlay, founder, Nucleus Software; Anil Sachdev- former director, Eicher and KK Nohria, former chairman, Crompton Greaves, among others have come together to launch a new B-school, the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL).

School of leadership from industry veterans

Disaster management and physical fitness on curriculum to root out fear.

Self-defence courses in B-schools

The Indian School of Business (ISB) is in the process of creating a research platform that will allow faculty and scholars from various B-schools to work on common research projects.

ISB to set up a common research platform

Rupali Sharma (name changed) &mdash; a third-year MCA student of a reputed engineering college in Kanpur &mdash; was taken aback to know that representatives of some IT firms on campus for summer

Are jobs available for a fee on campuses?

Even as the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are planning to go online with its common admission test (CAT) by next year, speculation is rife that the institutes are considering two companies

Firms to help make online CAT more adaptive

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