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As the country continues to churn out highly-skilled labour in numbers than out do the availability of corresponding jobs, it would be safe to suggest that every passing year, the Indian job market is becoming increasingly competitive. As skilled professionals in the country find themselves at a crossroads, with the economy promising them both, great opportunity and stiff competition, what is it then, that can enable an individual vying for that elusive raise and promotion to rise above the rest? Perhaps, the answer simply lies in going back to the basics, an education. Once considered a founding stone for an

Blackstone Group LP plans to raise as much as $7.75 billion selling stock to the public and the Chinese government, becoming the biggest-ever private equity firm to go public. Blackstone is selling as many as 153.3 million shares for $29 to $31 each to raise $4.75 billion, the New York-based firm said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. The firm boosted the offering by almost 20% after it agreed to sell a $3 billion stake to the Chinese government on. Sunday. The sale may value Stephen Schwarzman and Peter G Petersons firm at as much as $33.6

DID you know that an online university qualification you may have acquired could be fake? Several universities have come up to answer to the growing demand for higher education. Because of this demand, some people have set up illegal institutions. A survey of institutions of higher learning by the National Council for Higher Education, (NCHE) 2004 and data collected from higher institutions in 2005 indicates that the quality of higher education delivery is declining, yet students and parents prefer universities to other institutions, no matter the study programmes. Among the major causes of the decline in quality education delivery is the growing

JHU Launches New Schools of Business and Education Johns Hopkins University trustees in response to a $50 million gift for business education voted Dec. 4 to establish both an innovative new business school to produce leaders with broad interdisciplinary preparation and an education school dedicated to the most pressing needs of the nations public schools. The Carey Business School and the School of Education will both begin operations Jan. 1 building new and distinctive programs on the foundation created by the universitys School of Professional Studies in Business and Education which will cease to exist. The Carey Business School will be launched with

The Academic Council was convened last week a decision on the issue of the workload of teachers. Several proposals have been heard and will simply increase the burden of hard work, despite a recommendation of the UGC. The meeting lasted almost 12 hours and ends late at night, with 128 members diffuse difficult to try to dispute. But the face of savings left many teachers, students, administrators, employees UGC, the payer and police perplexed scientists. The result was an increase in the duration of classes five minutes, so that an explicit increase in the workload weekly one-hour and a half for teachers. The

Pune: With education, is presented as an industry service from 1 April 2003, a high-level meeting of the five University Grants Member of the European Commission was the appointment in New Delhi on Tuesday with chalk, an action plan to respond effectively to the challenges of this development. Bhushan Patwardhan, director of the University of Pune (UoP) inter-disciplinary school for health sciences and head of the expert group, TNN said that the aim of New Delhi to take, in order to raise the challenges and find appropriate solutions. A proposal will be under consideration by the Ministry of Education, he said. The

With the recent hikes in admission fees, management education at India’s top B-Schools is set to become much more expensive. In the last few weeks, all six Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) have decided to raise the fees for their Post Graduate Programme (PGP), albeit with varying degrees. Other B-schools of repute too are increasing their fees. MBAUniverse.com presents a review of the new fees scenario. From the table below, one can make out that IIM-A’s PGP programme is the most expensive amongst the IIMs, while IIM-L is the most affordable of the IIMs. IIM-A has affected the steeped fee hike of

New production line a Hall-mark for success HILL STATION is moving forward with its ambition to make Cwmbran a centre for luxury ice cream production with an effort to raise a further £1m of financing. The company - which also makes Loseley and Granelli ice cream, as well as supplying private brands, is issuing shares at 3.5p to finance an eighth production line. This will be used to accommodate some of the higher-volume products, which are still manufactured at the former Granelli McDermott site at Cheadle, Cheshire. More : icwales.icnetwork.co.uk

Thierry Audric, Cultural Counsellor at the Embassy of France in New Delhi has recently been appointed as Director General of EduFrance. It is the fee in January of next year. Education Times spoke with him in the role of France, EduFrance and the target for the next higher education. Tell us a little about the mail that you are going, as head of the EduFrance in Paris. When did you planned to take? I planned to take as CEO of EduFrance, from next January. The French have a policy to welcome foreign students in France. Over the past three years, we have

Intelliworks Announces New Higher Education CRM Version Intelliworks, Inc., a vendor of CRM for higher education, has announced that it is launching a new version of its enterprise product specifically designed to meet the CRM needs of small to midsize schools as well as individual programs, and departments. The new iRM Essentials product is being billed as providing the ability to set up and operate a full-fledged CRM system at a lower price point, in a shorter amount of time, and in a hosted environment. CRM is being embraced across all market segments of higher education, said Dev Ganesan, President & CEO of

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