Down south, a B-school has put up kiosks at an airport to promote itself. Another B-school is flaunting its international tie-ups to attract students.

Demand for seats in lower rung B-schools to dip further

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As the nearly six-year-long battle between the US-based Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has ended, the former plans to expand in India.

Deck cleared, CFA Institute to expand in India

It&rsquo;s not just the premier engineering and management institutes which are smiling this placement season. Law colleges across the country have also seen good placements, in addition to salary hike of anywhere between 20 and 30 per cent. Law schools say, apart from the usual law firms, many other companies have also recruited from campuses this year.

Campus beat: Legal eagles in demand

US-headquartered Harvard Business School (HBS) has finally found an address for its executive education classroom in India. The B-school, beginning this March, will offer executive programmes at the Taj Lands End, at Bandra, in suburban Mumbai.

Harvard B-school has a new address in Mumbai

In 2004, Amar Pandit left a cushy job in the banking and financial sector in the United States to become a financial planner in India. Pandit started his firm, My Financial Advisors, in early 2005, enrolling alongside for a certification in financial planning. &ldquo;I wanted to start my firm in the US, but I opted for India as the financial planning market had a huge opportunity here,&rdquo; says Pandit.

Financial planning as a profession catches up

International universities are looking beyond just training employees of conventional industries in India. They are increasingly focusing on sunrise sectors such as healthcare, pharma and higher education.

Global varsities make inroads into India

To tide over their bad loans and structure their loan products in a better way, banks will now rate B-schools and other educational institutions. In a recent meeting between banks and over 150 education institutes, it was decided that Indian Banks Association will come up with a rating model for institutes. This would be done under the aegis of Pritam Singh, director, International Management Institute, New Delhi.

Education loans: Banks to rate institutes

The announcement of monetary grants for agricultural universities across the country has come as much-needed respite . With the help of these monetary grants, research work at agri campuses are set to expedite, say institutes.

Budget gives research at agri varsities a shot in arm

Manipal University has set itself a new task &mdash; to establish five large universities in India in the next five years. While the ones in Jaipur and Bangalore will take shape soon, the group is looking at setting up two more in the eastern and western regions of the country. That's a big leap from the two universities it has in India at present.

Manipal University in expansion mode

As the number of bad loans are increasing, banks need to seek some measures for respite. By rating B-school students, banks can accordingly fix terms and conditions for them as well as track down the particular student&rsquo;s performance. Thereby they can analyse students&rsquo; future ability to repay loans.

Students' corner

The fluctuation in rupee will not impact students' decision to defer or cancel their plans of studying abroad. Education is perceived as a long-term career investment, particularly when one looks for superior education in notable and top-rated institutions abroad. There will be no compromise on quality education to offset the increasing costs of studying abroad, and therefore little apprehension in joining the foreign institutes.&nbsp;However, there may be marginal decline in student traffic internationally with respect to tier -II and tier-III colleges abroad where the quality of education and infrastructure are comparable to the domestic institutes.

To tide over fund crunch, students are either looking at alternative sources of funding like scholarships or picking up part-time jobs.

Cost of foreign education rises as rupee falls

IT training and education company Aptech has bagged the contract to conduct the AICTE&rsquo;s maiden management entrance test &mdash; Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) &mdash; for admission to post-graduate diploma in management institutes. The test will begin next month. Pravir Arora, executive vice-president (enterprise business) at Aptech, tells M Saraswathy how Aptech is prepared to ensure smooth conduct of CMAT.

Q&A: Pravir Arora, Aptech

Many students decline the lucrative finance sector to opt for jobs in core-engineering sector as it offers job security and good pay.

Engineering jobs favoured in IITs 

The results of the Common Aptitude Test (CAT), conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management, was announced today. In 2011, 1.85 lakh students took the examination. The aspirational 100 percentile was managed by nine students, while 1,800 students crossed the 99 percentile barrier.

CAT is out of the bag students sceptical over interview call

More than 10 months after the group on fund raising for the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), headed by Hari Bhartia, co-chairman and MD, Jubilant Life Sciences, submitted its recommendations to the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), the IIMs may finally have a fund-raising department in place.

IIMs learn the art of fund raising

Soumitra Dutta, 48, an IIT-Delhi alumnus, will become the 11th dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell on July 1. In an emailed interview to Kalpana Pathak, the first Indian-origin head in the institution&rsquo;s 66-year old history says there are several areas of interest that could help differentiate the university from the rest in India. Edited excerpts.

I will strengthen links between India & Johnson: Soumitra Dutta

Come February, and the cloud over the issue of conducting a single entrance examination for admissions to engineering institutes may finally be cleared. Directors of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) that Business Standard spoke to said that by the end of February 2012, there may be a consensus on whether to hold a single entrance examination in 2013 and thereon.

Single engineering entrance examination likely from 2013

Raising funds for scholarships, faculty bonus and expansion.

Alumni pledge to serve alma mater

The growth in the film and entertainment industry is leading established players to take steps that might be termed as &lsquo;backward integration&rsquo; in the retail sector.

Private film schools fulfilling dreams

Canada-based Carleton University has set up a Canada-India Centre of Excellence in Science, Technology, Trade and Policy at Carleton.

Carleton sets up India Centre of Excellence

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