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

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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

Other management institutes are catching up with IIMs in pre-placement offers.

It's raining jobs...

While it may have been recognised as a &lsquo;good business school with regional influence&rsquo; in 2009, the Institute of Management, Nirma University (IMNU) doesn't want to remain so. As the full-time director of the institute for over a year ago, C Gopalkrishnan, sums up IMNU's vision in one word &lsquo;international&rsquo;. In an interview with Business Standard, Gopalkrishnan tells Vinay Umarji how IMNU intends to spread its wings in the international arena.

Q&A: C Gopalkrishnan

For Vodafone International Holdings BV (Vodafone BV) its the saga of the kingdom being lost on account of one horse shoe na&iuml;l. The transaction structure is no different from that of the models used since the mid - nineties, in cross border M &amp; As for sale of shares by an offshore company, from another, Hutchison-Telecommunication International Ltd., Cayman Islands (HTIL) under a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA).

Vodafone ruling: A step back in investor relations

With the present circumstances prevailing that students put their full effort to crack the IIT entrance exam thereby neglecting board exams. A change in pattern will enable students to give importance to their 12th class exams as well.

Student's corner

Institute faculty tweaks Balakrishnan committee recommendation to have its own three-year work plan in place.

IIM Calcutta has its way

Slowdown casts a shadow on summer placements at B-schools, but the scenario isn&rsquo;t all bleak.

A summer of finance at IIMs

The Rs 350-crore executive education market in India has attracted players from across the world. Canada-based Richard Ivey School of Business (Ivey) is one of the latest entrants. Ariff Kachra, strategy professor &amp; managing director, Ivey India, the Indian chapter of Ivey, tells M Saraswathy about its India plans.

Q&A: Ariff Kachra, Ivey India

In a first, an Indian state university&mdash;University of Pune -- which went international two years ago, may have to relocate or rework its international strategy.

Pune university's campus in UAE runs into trouble

As the MHRD slugs it out with 44 deemed varsities in the Supreme Court, Bangalore-based Jain Univeristy says its growth plans remain in place despite its status in question. Jain University's Chancellor R Chenraj Jain outlines the institution's future plans to Pradeesh Chandran.

Q&A: R Chenraj Jain, Founder Chairman and Chancellor, Jain University

As part of its golden jubilee celebrations the oldest Indian Institute of Management in the country, IIM-Calcutta (IIM-C) is planning a slew of new courses, including those that would promote a greater inclusion of women.

IIM-C to launch new courses

With the Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) scheduled on April 10, students should work around the three pillars of success-- conceptual clarity, contextual familiarity and application expertise.

IIT-JEE: It's all about the right strategy 

Says the rich skill-set of chartered accountants calls for a competitive package.

ICAI wants entry-level salary for CAs raised

Unlike other international B-schools which are targeting the Indian market by launching executive education programmes, France-based Ecole de Management, Strasbourg, is promoting its full-time two year management programme in India. Michel Kalika,Dean, EM Strasbourg, tells Kalpana Pathak how the collaboration between Indian and French companies is creating demand for managers.

Q&A: Michel Kalika, Dean, EM Strasbourg 

The International Council for Small Business (ICSB) will launch its operations in India through the Indian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

ICSB comes to India

Joins Everonn and Educomp with education plans; eyes global alliance.

Core Projects ventures into higher education

Rajasthan&rsquo;s wait for a university campus from the Manipal Group may get longer as the group is still undecided on what kind of a campus to set up in the state&rsquo;s capital, Jaipur.

Manipal's Jaipur campus delayed

The programme, called INSEAD Leadership Programme for Senior Indian Executives (ILPSIE) will be conducted at INSEAD&rsquo;s global campuses in France and Singapore.

INSEAD eyes executive education market

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) may have got the nod from the IIT Council to teach medicine, but barring IIT-Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp), none of the IITs will venture into full-time medical education in the near future.

Full-time medical courses fail to enthuse most IITs

A productive interface between industry and academia, in the current era of a knowledge driven economy, is critical. And this idea appears to have taken deep roots in Kolkata.

Industry-institute interface takes root in premier Kolkata varsities

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