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Upcoming Career Options: Event Management and Wedding Planning

Event management is the application of project management to the creation and development of festivals, events and conferences. It involves studying the intricacies of the brand, identifying the target audience, devising the event concept, planning the logistics and coordinating the technical aspects before actually executing the modalities of the proposed event. Post-event analysis and...
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UGC: New Guidelines for the Foreign Universities entering India

University Grants Commission (UGC) approves a new set of guidelines that only global top 500 universities by the Times Higher Education World University Ranking or by Shanghai Jiaotong University will be allowed to start their operation in India. The new guidelines set the norms for the foreign universities aspiring to enter into agreement with...
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Emerging Fields in Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the greek word oikonomia (management of a household and administration). The focus of this subject is how economic agents behave or interact and how economies work. A primary textbook distinction between microeconomics and...
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Single entrance test for centrally funded technical institutions, IITs & NITs from 2013: Kapil Sibal

Students who wish to pursue their career into engineering stream would be required to share one platform. The admissions to all centrally funded technical institutes (CFTIs) in the India, including the IITs and the NITs, will be directed to appear only one entrance test from 2013. Accordingly, the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for admission...
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Delhi University to test ‘meta college’ idea – students to choose courses from multiple colleges

Starting from this July, 20 undergraduate students handpicked by Delhi University (DU) will design their course curriculum by choosing courses from multiple colleges of Delhi University, as the varsity prepares to host the country’s first meta college. The meta college will serve as a collaborative platform for all of DU’s affiliated institutions and will...
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No new engineering colleges from 2013-14: AICTE

Acting on demands from several State Governments, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has decided not to approve new engineering colleges from the academic year 2013-14. “Several State Governments had requested us not to clear the applications for starting new engineering colleges. They have cited the incidence of growing number of vacant...
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Private Universities are on the rise in India : MHRD, Parthenon Report

Private universities in the country have more than doubled in the last six years, according to the findings of a new report. While the country had 20 private universities prior to 2005, that figure surged to 107 last year. The report, “Private Universities in India: An Investment in National Development”, compiled by management consultancy...
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Using ‘University’ tag by unrecognized institution punishable: HC

Upholding a lower court order of imposing a fine of Rs 500 on an unrecognised institution for using word “University” for itself, the Delhi High Court said such a move violates the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act. Rejecting the plea of JK Soni who is running an institute with the name of “Commercial University...
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Harvard Business School’s opens classroom in Mumbai

Harvard Business School (HBS) recently announced the launch of the new amphitheatre-style classroom in Mumbai, which replicates the classrooms on the school’s Boston campus, giving participants and students a true Harvard Business School case-method learning experience. Built and owned by the Taj Lands End, owned by the Indian Hotels Limited, the launch of the...
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IIMB launches ‘Learning from Sport’

IIMB launches ‘Learning from Sport’

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) has launched a 2 day executive education program called ‘Learning from Sport’. The program is aimed at middle and senior managers. The program which is being conducted along with sports consulting firm TENVIC  will start on March 16, 2012. Sportspersons will share their experiences with participants and sessions...
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