Atul Karmarkar.Com

Happened to read an article in the newspaper about ‘contract cheating’ !!

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.

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 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.

Pune University plans to set up a full fledged campus at Dubai, and will be the first Indian university to have an overseas centre.

Today’s TOI had an article about the prim and propah Oxford University setting up an offshore campus at Pune.

A new Indian Institute of Management (IIM) is all set to become operational from the academic year 2008-09. This will be the seventh such institute, and will follow in the footsteps of others at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode.

XLRI Jamshedpur has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bordeaux Business School, France, to promote international relations in the area of management.