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India-US Collaboration Programme Put into Effect

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in November 2009, during his visit to US, announced higher education collaboration jointly with US President Barack Obama. This initiative has already been actioned and key collaboration areas will be energy studies, sustainable development, climate change, environmental studies, education and educational reform, community development and innovation.

Source: 7th October, 2011, Newskerala.com Compiled by www.shiksha.com


Quality of IIT students has slumped: Narayana Murthy
Narayana Murthy has revealed his displeasure at a summit in New York, while addressing a bunch of former IITians at a ‘Pan IIT' summit, he stated that the quality of students entering IITs has slumped over time. He said that the quality of engineers is deteriorating every passing year due to the coaching classes that prepare engineering aspirants.

Source: 4th October, 2011, Deccanherald.com Compiled by www.shiksha.com


The first ever AICTE CMAT will roll out in February

AICTE has announced its first ever online Common Management Admissions Test (CMAT). It has been designed to select students for AICTE approved management institutes. Like Prometric assists IIMs in CAT administration; it has invited tenders from interested tech companies who can oversee CMAT. It will be conducted from 20th to 28 February, 2012.

Source: 2nd October, 2011, Siliconindia.com Compiled by www.shiksha.com


IIFT launched a unique course on International Business Strategy

Indian Institute for Foreign Trade (IIFT) has launched a unique course on international business strategy that aims to develop competence in disciplines and skills associated with formulation of strategies for business. It will be a one year programme and will equip present day managers with necessary competencies to formulate strategies in the global business scenario.

Source: 7th October, 2011, Careers360.com Compiled by www.shiksha.com


US University renamed its B-School as Naveen Jindal School of Management

The University of Texas at Dallas has renamed its School of Management as Naveen Jindal School of Management (NJSM). It has been decided to honor its distinguished alumnus Naveen Jindal. The University of Texas at Dallas is proud to celebrate the naming of the Naveen Jindal School of Management and also stated that it will enhance the excellence of one of the premier B-schools based in US.

Source: 7th October, 2011, Newspolitan.com Compiled by www.shiksha.com


HC directed DU to fill up 50 vacant seats in Law School

HC has passed an order as per which 50 first-year seats of the Faculty of Law of the Delhi University won’t go in waste. Such seats were lying vacant from the date of registrations because of inadequate number of eligible students under the OBC quota were available to take admissions.

Source: 6th October, 2011, Indianexpress.com Compiled by www.shiksha.com

Foreign Varsities can come next year: Kapil Sibbal

At the inaugural session of Australia-India Education Council in Delhi, Kapil Sibal said that foreign varsities can set up their campuses from the next academic year. It was attended by 15 vice-chancellors from Australia, led by Senator Chris Evans and Premier of South Australia Mike Ran, who interacted with 14 vice-chancellors of India.

Source: 6th October, 2011, Andhrabreakingnews.com Compiled by www.shiksha.com


DU has conferred autonomy to Departments for PG exams

Delhi University has conferred autonomy to respective departments to conduct their own entrance and semester exams for post graduate courses. It has been put in action to make the examination process smoother and quicker. Dean of Examination branch, RC Sharma stated that, this move has been implemented in order to relieve the burden of the examination branch after the implementation of the semester system at the undergraduate level.

Source: 6th October, 2011, Hindustan Times Compiled by www.shiksha.com


Stanford University introduced a Blended Learning Approach to India

Stanford University's Center for Professional Development has introduced a new blended learning approach to India for delivering project management education. Stanford Advanced Project Management in India launched in September and the first joint course roll-out will take place in December 2011.

Source: 1st October, 2011, Marketwatch.com Compiled by www.shiksha.com


Indian Universities fare badly in World Rankings: Times Higher Education

Recently, Times Higher Education has announced the "World University Rankings 2011-12" and as per this report, India's higher education institutions fared badly. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay was the only Indian institute which appeared on this list of world’s top 400 universities and that too at the lowly 317th position.

Source: 6th October, 2011, Newskerala.com Compiled by www.shiksha.com

No negative marking for MBBS exam

An expert committee has been composed to check out the modalities of the proposed single entrance test for admission to all MBBS courses across India. This committee has been set up by the Medical Council of India (MCI) and it has been also recommended that there should be objective-type questions and a percentile score to determine the merit of all applicants.

Source: 7th October, 2011, Dnaindia.com Compiled by www.shiksha.com


2.05 lakh candidates registered for CAT 2011

In 2011, around 2.05 lakh candidates have registered for the Common Admission Test for admission to the prestigious IIMs and other B-schools. Last year 2.4 lakh candidates had registered for the test while in 2009 the registration figure was 2.48 lakh.