Central panel blacklists 44 deemed universities

Failure to obtain a score over 40 per cent on nine different criteria like governance, research output and faculty resources has led to the blacklisting of 44 deemed universities by a government......

Alert: PhD in management studies

Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies(Deemed university)Doctoral Programme in Management StudiesNMIMS, one of the top business schools in India at the......

Now, rating for B-schools

As credit rating agencies get ready to grade business schools, the jury is out on whether the process will be of much use.In December 2010, Mumbai-based Narsee Monjee Institute of Management......

When MBAs aspire to become clerks

There are 300 applicants for each clerical post at SBI, mostly engineers/MBAs, for a job that just requires a Class 12 qualification, says Shyamal Majumdar. The server of State Bank of India......

Distance education for executives catching on

Freshers with a degree through distance education, however, are at a distinct disadvantage vis-a-vis regular degree holders . Over 2.8 million students are currently using the distance education......

Indian institutes on Canadian radar

After spreading its wings in China, the Canadian education system is now looking at India. Thirteen international academic tie-ups are in the offing. Some of the top-ranked universities from......

Salaam Namaste's director is 'very anxious'

Siddharth Anand likes to call himself destiny's child because he's never had to struggle in his career.At 27, he has already become the director of a Yash Raj production featuring big stars like......

'The way Amitabh spoke to us was amazing!'

Amitabh Bachchan visited Karachi, Pakistan, only once in his life. He was all of two years old then."I had gone to meet my grandfather who worked in Karachi. Not many people knowmy mother [Teji......