Education Headlines 11th October, 2011

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: Richha Bhatnagar (Shiksha Team)