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The Government is now seeking to push through a quota system for even faculty at the prestigious IITs !! These quotas, for the SC/ST/OBCs, are to be introduced with immediate effect, and the government order gives the desired breakup of the quota as follows; SC - 15%, ST-7.5% and OBC - 27%. For those teaching subjects in science and technology, [...]

You can now get an MBA-CFA, courtesy the dual degree programme from ICFAI. The duration of the course would be twenty seven months instead of a total of four years needed to complete both programmes.Graduates with 55 per cent aggregate are eligible for the dual degree programme. CA/CWAs are eligible for waivers in four subjects. The course [...]

Happened to read an article in the newspaper about ‘contract cheating’ !! Apparently, Indian brains are now very much in demand for this kind of work. British students are enlisting services of Indians on freelancer sites to help complete their course assignments in return for a fee, which could vary from £5 to £50 depending on the nature [...]

My opinion of the IIT-JEE, which is the entrance test to gain admission to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, took a really hard knock today as I read a report in the TOI. According to disclosures that came to light thanks to the Right To Information Act, the cut-off marks for mathematics, physics and chemistry last [...]

Phew !! That is some money, maaan !!! A student at IIM Ahmedabad has bagged a record offer of Rs.1.44 crore per annum during final placements for it’s MBA program. The highest domestic acceptance was in the range of Rs 50-70 lakh per annum. The financial sector managed to lure a hefty chunk, with 113 out of [...]

The schedule of final placements at XLRI Jamshedpur ended with 298 offers being made to 180 students. A total of 12 international offers were made at an average offer of $90,000, with the highest offer coming in at $100,000. Domestic offers scaled a high of Rs.28 lakh while the average domestic offer stood at Rs.14.75 lakh. Financial [...]

Pune University plans to set up a full fledged campus at Dubai, and will be the first Indian university to have an overseas centre. Giving it company at Dubai will be Mumbai’s S.P. Jain Institute of Management and BITS, Pilani, but both are non-government run institutes.