The Kendriya Vidyalaya No: I Naval Base, Kochi, is emerging as one of the best courses Kendriya Vidyalayas “(TC) in the city. Near the city, inside the borders Kataribagh, part of southern Naval Command , The school is located. Huge trees dot the campus treated Wellingdon Island. The school’s largest, C Kuriakose Varkey, said that if Kataribagh, students and employees have contributed to wade through the dirty water when it rains. This is because certain parts of the access road are poorly maintained.

Eclectic Mix

“We have a cosmopolitan mix of students, mostly children of Navy personnel. Preference is given to Central Government employees and employees of the state. There are 22.5 per cent planned to reserve Tribe caste and scheduled for children. Over the years the school has been able, for good results, despite the authorization is not strictly on merit. ”

The school follows the system under investigation and it is an ongoing program evaluation for assessing capabilities Allround-children. For advertising, brands securely in the annual report Exams are only 40 per cent of weight. Another 20 per cent for semi-annual examinations and the other 40 per cent for brands scores of tasks, Unit tests and projects. Internal assessment are taken into account.

The project started in school for many years. In addition to English and Hindi, Sanskrit is also taught here, as in all KVS.

The medium of communication is English and Hindi. A student chooses’s guide, swearing a formal investiture ceremony. The official website of the school is underway.

Breaking Free throughout the universe office, the profession has Kerala wirefree bathed the sale of technology with laptops register a growth of 40 per cent during the last two months.

Mobility appears to be the password of the season as a management student and youth leaders, including with new advisers and retirement insurance classics, make a beeline for laptops. Sensing the potential market of local businesses have even started to climb laptops on the market. The thing is, however, Bluetooth or wireless Internet access to assistance on the net from everywhere.

”The day of the sale of a month, a laptop disappeared. Now we sell about 12 to 15 laptops per month. In addition to businessmen, engineers, doctors, marketing professionals are all rather for laptops,’’says Mahesh D. Nair, Marketing Manager of IBM.

The demand is Entry-Level machines with prices ranging from 45000 RS RS 60000th Aber”High end-users prefer the prices of laptops light in the R 1.5 lakh. Other versions weigh over 2.5 kg,’’says Mahesh.

Agent insurance and advisers are the last wirefree participants in the world. ING Vysya LIC and have orders for laptops with the planning of these 20 machines to raise a coup.

”The demand will continue to rise, given that prices down. In addition, young workers prefer working at home or during after-hours. We have also received orders from small businesses, often for presentations to clients,’’said Antony Sabu, Sales Manager of Online Shoppe.

The Bhavan’s Royal Institute of Management and the School of Communication and Management Studies, Kalamassery, have already decided the introduction of laptops for all MBA students.

All major traders in the city easy to finance.

Is it possible for a portable un”ordinateur EMI, about Rs 1800 Most houses to finance a 36-month loans. The financing facility is also available on why young workers to decide for a laptop for its letterhead,’’said George Aloysious, Chief Executive of computer Bazar.

The laptop market, according to Jose K. Georges PC online, gasoline, is another sign of a growth of 20 to 30 percent in the months ahead.

Andhra is all set to Photostat Kerala’s welfare text for the expatriate. Impressed by the activities of Non-Resident Keralites Association (NORKA), a four-member team of the NRI Study Group from Andhra Pradesh is in Kerala to understand and imbibe how NORKA reaches out to the NRKs.

Andhra Minister for Information and Public Relations Mohammed Ali Shabber, also chairman of the NRI Study Group, is all praise for NORKA and the Kerala Government.

“NORKA is the first in setting up a cell for the workers of its state and Andhra Pradesh is next to Kerala in workforce in the Gulf. We want to know more about NORKA and its functions, especially on the recruiting and welfare schemes,” said Shabber.

Besides making a model of NORKA in AP, “We’re also looking into areas where we can join hands,” said Mohammad Hazeebullah (liaison officer), himself an expatriate with 20-year experience as professor in various universities in the US.

The team will meet Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday in Thiruvananthapuram.

The team comprising Shabber, N V Ramana Reddy, Additional Secretary to the AP Government, B Rasheed, private secretary to Shabber, and Hazeebullah, however, ruled out chances of signing any MoU with the NORKA.

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has an additional penalty of 60 places Kochi school management and communication Studies (SCMS) for its Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) programme, which for most autonomous, the Business Country School in the form of annual objectives, student intake.

“The SCMS is now a total of 270 seats, the highest among all the autonomous communities Business Schools”, President of GPC SCMS Nair said here Saturday.

After SCMS V Mukunda The director, “some of the best identification of the Institute, with senior business magazines, which may have weighed heavily with the authorities of the substantial increase in seats.”

Its PGDM programme recognized by the Association of Indian Universities (IAU) is regarded as equivalent to MBA from the university. It has ISO certification for quality management education system, nearly one hundred per cent placement since 1996.

“AICTE itself had recognized as a school with an excellent track record in implementing and with a major grant for enlargement,” said Dr. Das, a former professor of IIM (Kozhikode) and the Institute for Rural Management Anand (IRMA).

He said the school on the campus of Kochi has a centre-air-conditioned 150000 sq ft built space.

The Ambani ‘kahani’ is the talk of city B-schools. MBA students in Kochi have been glued to the Ambani drama as it unfurled over the last seven months with all the ingredients of a Hindi film where the mataji comes to the rescue of the khandaan.

The future managers give full marks to Kokila Ben for solving the issue by splitting the Reliance empire between the two sons.

“This had to happen. However, the split is not going to break the empire. The diversified portfolios of the brothers will only take the company from strength to strength,” said Praveen S., a management student of the Cochin University of Science and Technology.

According to Varkey J.Ancheril, a student of Master of Human Resource Management, Rajagiri College, both the brothers are capable of excelling in their allotted portfolios. “It was a great decision taken by the family. The future of about three million shareholders was at stake. The decision has made the market also happy,” he said.

While Sweta Narayanan, another student of the same institution, felt the split had to happen and ‘earlier the better,’ Rahul Ramesh said the issue dragged on for months. “We believe both the brothers are quite happy with what they’ve got,” said Jayakrishnan, an MBA student of Rajagiri.

As per the settlement, Mukesh Ambani retains the flagship company - Reliance Industries Ltd - and the petrochemical venture IPCL. Anil Ambani gets Reliance Infocomm, Reliance Energy and Reliance Capital, which he has named as Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (ADA) Enterprises.

“The Reliance split will definitely be a good case study for us. I’m quite impressed by the power plan announced by Anil Ambani. But it is too early to say whether he can make Reliance Capital the third biggest financial services and banking company in the country,” said S.Laja Vijayan, MBA student at the School of Management and Communication Studies (SCMS), Kalamassery.

A lack of management of our education system is that it is very great importance to the theoretical knowledge and very little attention is given to practical wisdom, “said M Vijayaraghavan, Member, Planning Board, and former CEO of Techno Park.

He was sent to the participants of the Faculty of development programmes organised by SCMS (School of Communication and Management Studies) at Kalamassery.

From management training should not only be a programme of training, education, as something to be done. He helped to increase the thinking of students, he said.

The program was sponsored by the AICTE, in conjunction with the SCMS. Teachers and teachers from various Business Schools in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in the program.

Experts from IIMS, varsities industry and training units.

The foreign educational institutions have, since time immemorial, Calcutta students in a big reputation. And now, a Latin American city management, Scouting for students.

? Indian students are well place in the world. You have discs and brightest are required? said Yolanda Fernandez Ochoa, MBA Regional Manager, Central American Institute for Business Administration (INCAE), an after-school B above, headquartered in Costa Rica.

The Business School offers an MBA 21-month diploma in finance and economics, sustainable development and industry and technology, both in English and Spanish.

INCAE is closely linked to Pune-based Training & Advanced Studies in Management Ltd and Communications (TASMAC) and seeks students from several Indian cities, including Calcutta.

? We were impressed by students, we interviewed in Calcutta. The final selection will be held soon? said Ochoa. She said that a high score GMAT or GRE, two years? From experience and a? fairly well? Interview with a student, by the selection procedure.

The 21-month course costs $ 40,000. INCAE organizes exhibitions for placement in its campus each year, at the end of the course.

Although INCAE has 14 branches throughout Latin America, India is the first country in Asia where there is a tie-up. ? The first year we are on the quality of stress, students? Ochoa. The Institute has therefore decided to take 10 first-year students and the gradual increase in numbers.

Before discussing the city, Ochoa filled with students in Pune and Ahmedabad and will later visit Hyderabad, Cochin, Trivandam, Bangalore and Mumbai.

TASMAC? N common Prashant Dua said the Director-General:? TASMAC is the organization of interviews and other infrastructure support.?

Engineer students never had with both the campus settings large companies increasingly popular in Kerala.

Mainly students for jobs, as companies reach the campus to recruit the best of the lot.

Powered by a boom in information technology, engineering major college campus in Kerala have witnessed a significant increase in the number of parameters of the campus.

Just after a slowdown in recent years, the increase was so marked that led to an optimistic mood on the campus of Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode.

Pupils and students in the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram (CET) be convened by the College in July 2005, are very happy fate. Although only 17 companies was for mediation-Campus program, and many students have received 422 job vacancies. It is almost two times higher than the number of students who were selected last year.

As in previous years, the list of companies that opt for mediation-Campus program reads like a Who is Who in the computer industry in India. Over the years, companies like IBM, Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) and Infosys HEC clearly a must-go recruitment goal.

CTS, which absorbs 60 engineers during the last year, 123 future engineers recruited this year. It is the highest of a company, this year. Infosys was not very far behind, offer internships to 110 students. Wipro, which has only 10 students last year, courses offered, for no fewer than 68 students this year. Thirty students received internships with IBM.

Good season

A remarkable feature of campus recruitment this year was that many companies requested and offered jobs for students in the engineering sector. Thus, more than 43 students in civil engineering from the branch has received from various companies this year. During 2004, only six students from this sector has received places on campus Accounting. The 122 seats HEC has for this branch. Students in mechanical engineering had a good season while the campus recruitment this year. In 2004, 37 courses students received this year, 62 students in this sector have been various companies. The school has a thickness of 121 punished for this branch.

The head of career and work Mediation Unit (ERMC) HEC, A. Samson, said that this may be because the companies showed that civilians and machinery were Civil engineers as well as against their parties in electronics and information technology divisions, if it is d ‘ jobs related to computers. Civil and machines require little training for work in the computer industry. The fact that civilians and machines are less vulnerable to Hopping work in relation to a computer engineer, it is possible that this factor in a jump in the demand for machinery and civilian engineers, “he says.

However, the fact that the “Circuit branches’ - electrical engineering, electronics and computers - remains the specialization required by companies on the HEC.

According to experts, the survey shows that the management of training in Kerala leaves much to be desired. The former dean of the IIM, Bangalore, Dr. Mr. Nair NV, for one, believes that Kerala’s B-schools have very little to offer in the form of intellectual capital.

In the first note: A-Class IIM Bangalore.

The management, they say, is the art and science. If this is true, many of the 40-odd B-schools in Kerala seem not to have a handful fully with the art and science, as in the rating charts, especially if a record is a School B various investigations of media organizations.

If it is not at grade

Among the B-283 schools throughout the country, recently ranked by the All India Management Association (AIMA), these are only three of Kerala. Admittedly, it was not B-school state did on the Class A + or the `Super League ‘, the Institute for the Management of Kerala (IMK) in Thiruvananthapuram, dans le cadre de l’ University of Kerala, finds a place in the “B” category. B-The two schools - Rajagiri School of Management and the School of Communication and Management Studies, both in Kochi - you find a reference to the `A ‘.

The investigation had AIMA the following parameters for classifying B schools - “Intellectual Capital”, “registration and internships”, “infrastructure”, “the interface with industry” and “governance”. These factors have eu percentage weighting of 30, 25, 25, 12.5 and 7.5, respectively.

Poor intellectual capital

According to experts, the survey shows that the management of training in Kerala leaves much to be desired. The former dean of the IIM Bangalore, MNV Nair, for one, believes that Kerala’s B-schools have very little to offer in the form of intellectual capital.

“The Institute of industry in most business schools is virtually non-existent. Proper management of host institutions should hold regular lectures by leaders in practice, so that students not only at the end of ’study theoretical aspects of management, “he says.

It is noteworthy that most management institutions, including universities, work, as though it were a conventional studies underway. “In the Top Management Institute, the curriculum is constantly updated, through education, very close links with industry and know what the industry”, said Shankar C. Jaya a management consultant to the Tata Consultancy Services Alumnus of the IMK. In AIMA survey, the two B-schools in the “A” category received 75 and 80 percentage points for “intellectual capital”. The IMK has 50 points, which means that 50 percent of respondents B-300 schools were better than the intellectual capital of the IMK.

Poor infrastructure

The fact that the IMK won only 25 points percentile “infrastructure” is also to say, given that the Institute is regarded as one of the Top-B in the schools of the State government after the Business School in the east Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat).

Sources from the industry indicate that while 75 percent of the B-schools across the country had better equipment than the IMK, someone must rely, to acquaint and some corrective measures.

Many experts say that the university system prevents B-schools’ progress.

They stress that the management of university departments have very few resources, little financial autonomy and almost not miss the functional autonomy.

Indeed, experts say, these three things - the financial resources and functional autonomy - which form the basis of excellence in the Top-Management institutions, including the Indian Institute of Management (IIMS). “The fact is that the university as a system based on the dead weight of État’s B-schools,” says C. Balagopal, general manager of Terumo Tenpol, a pharmaceutical company. “If a comma or full stop, should change in the curriculum, we need to go through this committee or. Excruciatingly The process is slow. B-a revision of curriculum of the school once every five years is a big joke. ”

Mr. Balagopal said, it is unable to explain why the B schools in Kerala should continue to offer degrees. He pointed out that for the industry, it happens there, a potential whether the staff have a degree in management or a diploma. If B-schools, as the IIMS, began with diplomas, and a quantity of red-tapism university can be circumvented. Academic Programs can be changed in the short term, might be greater flexibility in the choice of the Faculty, including assessment of the Faculty and Institute of the industry can interface.

As an education destination, India offers distinct advantages to foreign students. Why then are institutions not vigorously marketing their courses abroad? And why are we not attracting more foreign students?

EDUCATION IS a booming industry worldwide and several countries are working overtime to attract foreign students. Distance education and web-based learning have become viable options for many employed persons who cannot attend classes or move residence.

Indian scene

India has been lagging behind in the race to woo foreign students, although many of our universities and institutions have a fairly decent reputation abroad. The Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institutes of Management, for instance, are known for their world-class standards.

There are several colleges, mainly in the metros, which are over a century old and still maintain immaculate standards of quality. Yet, the inflow of foreign students is negligible in comparison with the vast number of Indian students who go to the West for higher studies.

Engineering colleges

A sudden spurt in the number of engineering colleges in Kerala and Tamil Nadu has resulted in a crisis in the education sector with seats remaining unfilled and managements struggling to break even. In this situation, the need to attract foreign students assumes tremendous significance.

Thomas Lawrence, CEO, LAI Technology Centre, a successful IT company with its head office in St. Louis, the U.S., and offshore facility at Tidel Park, Chennai, has this to say about the Indian Universities: “Yes, the quality of education is good. The students are dedicated and they make competent employees once they are trained and have a little experience. But there is very little change in the policies and procedures at the university level. If you visit the Kerala University or the University of Madras, you will find that everything is just the same as it was two or three decades ago. The only difference is that now they have a few computers. The universities must devise strategies to attract students from neighbouring countries. The colleges need to be more student-friendly. Students must be treated as adults, given ample freedom and all the red tape must be cut. Some of the private colleges have excellent infrastructure facilities. The Government colleges must do something to catch up.”

“We are still in the bullock-cart age where research is concerned,” says C.V. Ananda Bose, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Government of Kerala. “In order to move into the jet age and to make Kerala an educational hub for the international community, we need to improve the quality and content of our courses, build up our infrastructure and reorient our educational system to suit the requirements of the global educational fraternity. Exchange of experts and expertise has to take place. Emerging specializations that have a global demand have to be identified. We are now lagging behind in science and technology, an area where we used to be on par with the developed nations. We have individual brilliance but insufficient funds for investment in research and development,” adds Dr. Bose.

“Today we have a head-start in English education and computer science but we will soon lose the advantage to other Asian countries if we fail to compete in the international market,” he says.

Vijayakumar, Director, Centre for Adult and Continuing Education and Extension, Thiruvananthapuram, felt that colleges in Kerala were unable to equip the students to face the challenges of industry and as such there was a need for special courses to develop communication skills, leadership skills, customer orientation, business orientation and so on.

Commercialisation

The concept of commercialisation of education is alien to the Malayali psyche. Just as the musk deer is unaware of its own fragrance, our colleges are unaware of their dollar-earning capacity. Students from South-east Asian countries are moving in large numbers to the UK to learn English, which is something they can do here for less than one-twentieth of the cost.

Khalid al Rashidi from Oman, a computer science student of Hindustan College, Chennai, says he was advised by his father’s friend to come to India to improve his English. Osama Ali and Adil Mubarak, also Omanis, were convinced that India is the best place to seek computer science knowledge.

Says Waheed Khaif al Hadabi: “Chennai is a nice place. We have good teachers and many books are available in the library. The only problem is we have to get used to Indian food.”

The Omanis seem comfortable with Indians because there are plenty of Indians in their country. A few of them are already quite fluent in English.

Sera Kim, a Korean student, who had his schooling in Japan, was induced by his father to join the college. He is trying hard to master the English language, and he looks forward to the arrival of two more Korean students in January. Several students come from far-away Bhutan to study business administration and engineering at the college. “People are very kind and smart here. We have more friends and resources than we can find in our country.”

Vadivambika Ramalingam, a first year BBA student of Women’s Christian College, Chennai, says it is difficult to get admission in Sri Lankan universities unless you are really brilliant. “An Indian degree is highly valued and you are sure of getting a better job on your return. It is expensive to study in India but not so expensive as Australia or Canada, which are favoured destinations for Sri Lankan students,” she says. Students from Sri Lanka generally prefer Pune, Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai.

Though Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi are closest to the island nation, they are not chosen very often. “We feel homesick, and phone calls are costly,” says Vadivambika.