Indian Institute of Management (IIM) graduates are often accused of ignoring politics and public affairs in pursuit of high-flying careers. However, students are beginning to reach out to the wider

IIM-A grads to take lessons in politics

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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) plans to get international accreditation. It is seeking certificates from an American agency, the Association of Advanced Collegiate School of Business

IIM-C seeks international accreditation

The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) will sign an agreement today to jointly develop training programmes for the accounting standard International

PwC to design IFRS module for IIM-C

Finance gets top billing by students; HR pay is good though.
India Inc. may perceive Human Resource (HR) as one of its pillars but B-school students think otherwise. For them, an HR career is passe.

HR gets the cold shoulder

Success has many managers. With the success of IPL and with the country registering its first gold medal in Olympics, sports management, already emerging as a field of study, will evince even more

IPL, Olympic gold will spawn professional sports managers

Special lectures, courses planned for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) firms appear to have caught the fancy of business schools this year. Be it for creating

Private equity lures B-schools

The Manipal Academy of Higher Education has been selected by the Ministry of Overseas Affairs to set up a university for Persons of Indian Origin; 50 per cent of the seats will be reserved for

University for PIOs in Bangalore by 2012

The UK-based Warwick Business School will facilitate internships for around 20 students of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A)&rsquo;s Post Graduate Management Programme for

Warwick to facilitate IIM-A internships

The &lsquo;Certificate Programme in Business Administration&rsquo; offered by the Institutes of Management (IIMs) has not found favour with information technology (IT) companies.
The six-month course

IT firms bypass IIM course for defence personnel

Diploma on the BPO sector to begin Jan-Feb 2009; to launch a programme on insurance.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), a pioneer in distance education, is planning to launch more

IGNOU to offer courses targeting private sector

The National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, will introduce a one-year post graduate programme in photography design at its Ahmedabad campus.
The course will be launched in October and offers

NID offers photography course

40 international universities seek land in the Mumbai-Pune-Nashik belt to set up campuses.

Foreign varsities itching for a base in India

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will introduce reservations in faculty positions for the first time since their inception.

IIT faculty too will have quota

Advertising by the education sector on TV has grown by 48 per cent during January-May 2008 as compared to the same period in 2007, according to a new report by Adex India, a division of TAM Media Research.

Education sector ads on TV up 48%

U21 Global, one of the world&#39;s premier online graduate schools, recently joined hands with Steria Academy in Chennai to launch a programme on leadership.

`We are waiting to work with the govt`

Programme coordinators think women lack the means to bring their potential to fruition; exclusively designed courses, workshops, lectures and seminars attempt to bridge the gap.

B-schools target women entrepreneurs

Great Eastern Institute of Maritime Studies (GEIMS), a marine institute promoted by Great Eastern Shipping Company, plans to offer a new course for offshore officers.

GE Shipping`s course for offshore officers

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

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

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