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Bangalore, Mar 25 (PTI) The placement committee chief of Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, which faced flak from students after their employment offers were made public, has left office citing expiry of his term. "My term was for two years and it has ended. It is as simple as that and nothing else," IIM-B Placement Committee Chairman Y L R Murthy told PTI and clarified it has nothing to do with the controversy over releasing students' placement records to the media. He said even when he took up the post two years ago, he was "very reluctant since it is an

After todays board meeting of IIM Bangalore, it appears the institute is biding time like its Calcutta counterpart for the other top B-school, Ahmedabad, to take the initiative against the governments move to slash fees. Sources said the three premier management institutes might adopt a united stand before the next hearing in the Supreme Court, scheduled for April 8. Yesterday, the board of IIM Calcutta had left it to the institutes chairman, Y.C. Deveshwar, to prepare a response after a meeting ended inconclusively. Sources indicated the board will discuss the resolution when it meets again on April 3, the day the board

Playing down a possible face-off with the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the HRD on Wednesday clarified that it would not interfere in the selection of directors at the top business schools. The practice of selecting directors through search-cum-selection committees has not been discontinued, the ministry said in a statement. The clarification followed a newspaper advertisement placed by the ministry inviting applications for the post of director at three IIMs. More : hindustantimes.com

MBA students focus on education finances MBA students at the University of California, Berkeleys Haas School of Business will host the Education Leadership Case Competition, the first of its kind at a business school in the United States, on Thursday and Friday, March 1-2. The competition will focus on a new financial plan for the Oakland Unified School District, which has been in state receivership since 2003 due to financial troubles. Organized by the Haas Leadership in Education Club, the event will bring together MBA students from UC Berkeley, University of Southern California, UCLA, Northwestern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brandeis University

Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur, has decided to retain its existing fee structure. It offers two two- year management courses and charges annual fee of Rs1.5 lakh per student. It offers merit-based and need-based scholarships worth Rs20 lakh every year. Father Casimir Raj, Director of XLRI, clarified that the fees now charged are not sufficient to meet expenses. The institute is covering the shortfall with income from other activities like management training programmes and consultancy services.

Bangalore: Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Development Kapil Sibal ocean said Thursday the development of human resources should not be the ministry of the question of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore to the opening a campus in Singapore. The HRD ministry is headed by Mr. Sibal part Arjun Singh. The ministry had refused permission to say, the Institute focuses on the achievement of increased domestic demand. Speaking at Microsoft Research and India Research Annual Symposium Vista technology by 2006, Sibal said the HRD Ministry, the decision stressed the need for a "paradigm shift in education." However, he clarified

Symbiosis International Educational Centre (SIEC) is opening its first campus outside Pune, Delhi, during the next year. The status of the University of symbiosis, it expresses the pair with the Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia, under its own curriculum, conclusion and to open their campuses everywhere, subject to approval local government within and outside India. As a result of this symbiosis plans to open campus is not only in India but also in Oman, Mauritius and Thai country by the year 2005. The focus on education in these countries will have repercussions on Undergraduate, Post-Graduate underway with the

THE IIMS should come and demand a much higher tax on the industry to recruit campus, will observe strictly the principles of market economy. In an interview with newspersons here Wednesday in the involvement IIM fee cut, and the draft resolution appeared to up by the government of Mr. YC Deveshwar, president of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC), said that it was a necessity, a mechanism by which companies IIMS approach to recruitment are charged at market prices. He said that if companies can recruit candidates by the agreement to pay huge salaries without

Indo Global College of Engineering : Admission Open in Delhi: MBA Hotel Gautam Residency, Room No. 101, Near M Block Market, E-54, Greater Kailash-I, New Delhi Correspondence Address: 244, Sector 16-B, Chandigarh. Indo Global College of Engineering - Indo Global College of Architecture Abhipur (Chandigarh). Source : Hindustan Times (New Delhi) June 18, 2005

AHMEDABAD: The Big Three may rejoice, but the HRD ministry is not amused by the status of the Board of Directors of the Indian Institute of Management, Indore on fees reduced. In spite of all the efforts made by the representatives of the four departments, who refused to board the toe of the government, said that it would be the Supreme Court decision on this issue. Although the Board accepts, it was the prerogative of the ministry to repair the damage fees, officials were not satisfied. They fought tooth and nail, but not when coming from SC to the adoption of a

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