INDIA could leverage their cost-cum-competence of his great talent of a potential innovation of the race, which is not only the exchange would be made innovation, but also where R & D on the basis of innovation centres, which by Western societies, because scientists defined Dr. RA Mashelkar.

Time, the convocation address in the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), the Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dr Mashelkar said real and unique, India offers a genuine Global R & D platform has been enormous. He said, to the costs of R & D is the share in the developed world as a whole move of India’s R & D was last year, 5 billion, less than the budget for R & D Companies like Pfizer one.

The assertion of one dollar in India offers much more than anywhere else in the world with Indian world-class technical staff, 250 universities, 1500 units of R & D, several IITS and engineering colleges, said the Dr Mashelkar has been an extraordinary rich resource that has been insufficient within the space of the Indian R & D chance. ”

Dr Mashelkar was proud of indicating that National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) of CSIR has been a pioneer in benefits and recognition of the need to technoglobalism. The process of globalization of R & D NCL began in 1989 and today it has an impressive list of international clients such as DuPont, Dow and Eastman, ICI, General Electric, Cargill, and UOP.

He told NCL: “We believe always ask what the basis of competence, skills and technologies, we must build? Rather than the stereotype question of what products or processes that we need to develop and market? “This change in the strategy, he said, though released, what happens in” NCL important objective for many chemical companies through Today’s World “.

Dr Mashelkar did not share the idea that the real advantage of the expansion in India as a hub of innovation, which is characterized by foreigners rather than Indian companies. He cites a school of thought, prove that gradually reverse the brain drain. Given that India is a large site R & D in the world with the best companies are their biggest challenges of R & D in India - whether in preparing its new Intel chips or GE organization its last reactor manufacturer - it would normal Indian scientists stay here, to meet association and also satisfy his love for his children grow up in India.

He said that outsourcing to India, the objective of R & D as a place in several other areas. He cited the example of drugs and medicines, he said more and more emphasis on diseases for the poor - along with the overall development of social insurance funds say that there are still opportunities that India could become a target for the creation of global knowledge for global good by the overall funding.

He said that the challenge was, as we continue to tap the incredible dynamism of global R & D, so that the institutions and Indian companies might think, managing the creation of highly paid jobs and development of new industries.

This would require, he said, “a sustained commitment to investment in science and technology to strengthen research infrastructure, skills development and ways to quickly integrate new knowledge and technologies into products and the increasing access to sources of innovation, development of technology centres incentives and government, protection, including protection of intellectual property on science-based High-Tech-inventions.

There is tremendous scope for job opportunities for engineering graduates in information technology and nearly three lakh graduates will get employment in the IT sector this year, C.Thangamuthu, Vice-Chancellor, Bharatidasan University, said today.

Delivering the sixth convocation address of E.G.S. Pillay Engineering College here, he said all students should not be job seekers; some should become entrepreneurs. Nearly 60 per cent of the self-financing engineering colleges were located in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala, and Maharashtra alone accounted for 20 per cent of the colleges. Hence, there was a competition among these States in providing quality education.

Dr. Thangamuthu said 50 per cent of the seats in engineering colleges were vacant in the southern States because the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the Government were liberal in granting permission for starting colleges. Now, the managements of a number of self-engineering colleges were finding it difficult to fill the seats. However, a number of colleges in Tamil Nadu were providing quality education. The managements should retain efficient teachers to maintain quality, he said.

Dr.Thangamuthu distributed degree certificates to 170 graduates.

R. Raghavan, principal, S. Jayachandran, secretary and K. Ranganathan, Dean, Department of Management Studies, spoke.

The Vice-Chancellor delivered the convocation address at E.G.S. Pillay Arts and Science College here and distributed degree certificates.

Come October and students from about 300 colleges across the country would participate in Xpress, a media promotional event, organised by the city-based Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI).

The event, conducted for the second time, is targeted at undergraduate and engineering colleges. The participants would have to devise a media plan to promote and market their respective institutes.

The last date for entry forms to reach the B-school is October 15. The teams, two to four members from each college, would have to develop a promotional campaign for their college using print, audio-visual and web-media which had to be sent to the external linkages cell of the institute, the organisers of the event. “We are targeting about 300 colleges this year, keeping in view the popularity of the event. We have started sending invitations to the colleges,” said Arjun Chatterjee, event coordinator and senior executive member of external linkages cell. According to Chatterjee, the contest was organised to promote creativity, marketing and advertising skills among college students.

Kozhikode, JAN. The 29th two-day festival annual management fee, `Back Waters 2005″ organized by the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) started on its campus in Kunnamangalam, near here today.

Students from 17 business schools and engineering colleges in the country are participating in a series of games, simulations, paper presentations and other competitions. Students of universities, including Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, XLRI, SP Jain, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon and NITIE are here to attend the meeting. A team of National Institute of Technology, Calicut, is also participating in the event.

A two-day IIMK alumni meeting began on the campus today. Competitions how stupid charade, Just A Minute (JAM), paper dance, antakshari, ad mad and quizzes were held today.

Business Quiz will take place tomorrow.

A concert by Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Grammy-winner on Sunday evening, the highlight of the programme tomorrow.

Professional colleges offering engineering and business courses are no longer the old brick and mortar models as many of us understand. Several institutions in Chennai and elsewhere across Tamil Nadu are spawning new enterprise among students.

Students coming up with innovations that perhaps create a ripple in the market is nothing new. Especially in the world of software. But now, there is real forging of initiatives between industry and the institutions. University-institute interaction, which was confined to universities, is spreading into individual colleges that are making fine examples of special enterprises including student start-ups.

Perhaps it is this trend which forced the Anna University Vice-Chancellor last week to talk about starting an IT Park in the College of Engineering, Guindy campus.

The Vice-Chancellor was candid enough when he made the announcement. “I had visited some private unaided colleges and I saw some of them have created very modern IT parks in collaboration with big IT companies. We in Anna University have been talking to companies such as Microsoft, IBM, HP or Sun Micro for various other purposes. And that is when I thought, if private colleges can create the modern IT facilities, why not Anna University too create something that is very modern.” This was at a meeting organised by the Department of Computer Sciences. He unveiled his plans to work with big and multinational IT majors to set up an IT park that would exclusively involve itself in R and D for industry-related problems.

As he acknowledged in his remarks, the idea is not new for some of the forward-looking private engineering colleges. Some of the colleges in western Tamil Nadu, such as PSG Engineering, an aided institution, have had a long-standing relationship with core companies, and many IT companies, for mutual interaction, faculty exchange, and providing sandwich or part-time engineering courses for industrial employees. Some examples of college-led enterprise:

St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai, has given away an entire block for an IT major, which has an academy for training all its freshers from all colleges in the region.

Sathyabhama Deemed University has sown the seed for an IT park. The idea is to provide IT-related employment to its own students who pass out, but want to maintain their connections with the institution. Old students of the institution now working in the United States have committed themselves to providing IT development worth over a million dollars. This works out to jobs for over 200 freshers. The institution head Jeppiaar says, he provides space, and free Internet / telephone connection to the start-ups, till they are able to share the fruits of their work with the IT park.

A two-week short-term training programme on emerging technologies in energy management with special emphasis on the recent advances in non-conventional energy sources began at the School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), here today.

The programme titled `Energy 2004′ is being organised by the Electrical Engineering Division, CUSAT, for professionals and teachers of engineering colleges.

Inaugurating the programme, R.V.G. Menon, former director of ANERT, said that the availability of fossil fuel would decline in five to 10 years.

“Fossil fuel, that is petroleum, hardly known till 1900, has been exploited mercilessly in the last 100 years,” he said.

Udhagamandalam, May 10 - HAVING successfully acquired university status from three State Governments to become the first multi-State varsity in the country, the ICFAI University has chalked out a strategy of going global.

Accordingly, it has initiated the process of obtaining accreditations from reputed global management bodies, the Dean of ICFAI Business School, Prof Naveen Das, said here on Monday.

He was addressing the principals, vice-principals and directors of various engineering colleges and business schools across the country at the inaugural session of the three-day ‘National Conclave of Leaders in Education’, considered a unique and first-of-its-kind three-day residential development programme.

“Having consolidated our position in the domestic space, we have now started looking at global market and steps towards acquiring global accreditations have began,” Prof Das said.

As a part of this process, the ICFAI University has already acquired memberships in the Association to Advance Collegeate School Business and the European Foundation for Management Development , which is a prerequisite for obtained accreditations of these management bodies.

Stating that the process would take around three to four years for acquiring global accreditations, Prof Das said the accreditations would help ICFAI University get into the league of global institutions and become one of the few Indian management schools to attain such distinction.

The ICFAI University, which has been focussing on investing its limited financial resources on building faculty teams operating through leased premises, has now started making significant investments into building its own campuses. It has already built one at Gurgaon.

“We are now in the process of building a huge campus spread across 100-acre in Hyderabad at a cost of around Rs 80 crore. The campus should be ready by next year. We have also decided to set up a spacious campus at Bangalore, for which the process of locating the land has started,” Prof Das said.

On the conclave of leaders in education, the ICFAI Business School Senior Faculty Member, Prof B. Karunakar, said a series of five such three-day programmes are being organised during this month.

Over 1,000 participants from across the country would be attending these programmes.

The three-day programme includes topics on emerging opportunities in educational sector, importance of intellectual leadership and institution building, and fostering research culture.

Times spoke of Education Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi catch up with dramatic changes in education:

Under your leadership a lot of emphasis will be placed on the technical field. Could you elaborate?
Our priority is to improve reception in institutions such as Prime IITS, so that the benefits of high-quality technical available to schools a large portion of students. Three new IITS in Allahabad, Guwahati Gwalior and have been established. The University of Roorkee has been transformed into an IIT. Since the IITS account for only 2000 seats, 17 regional engineering colleges (REC) are being updated in National Institutes of Technology (slow) by restructuring its administration, whether they are truly professional and more greater autonomy for the rapid and effective. Nits on the scale of IITS. It is easier that further work to upgrade REC IITS as a factor much lower cost. In 8000, it is now more places for students and teachers. Emphasis will be placed on research projects. The IITS has been said, spend 50 per cent of its funds in research projects.
What is examining samples of these institutions?

We have the model under consideration IITS. This is the IIT-JEE preliminary examination will take place in April and the final exam in May. A joint review for IITS and Nissen is on the anvil, but it is the resistance of IITS. If they exist, students have to take only two tests, one for certificates and IITS and the other for colleges of the State Government headed by the respective States.

What is the national programme for engineering earthquakes?
Given the strong siesmicity in large parts of the country and the lack of emphasis on quake-prone structures, a national program for engineering earthquakes was launched. The stress is placed on civil and structural aspects in the course. The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IITS and much has been said, this project intends to implement. The University of Roorkee has taken a leading role in using the building. An institution will soon study the seismicity in Ahmedabad soon. The ministry of science and technology and government work to the proposal.

What about the joint examination for admission to the MBA / PGDM and MCA?
Some institutions of higher education were considered as universities and they are implementing their own checks.

What about bio-technology courses?
Some of IITS, including IIT, Delhi, started a course on bio-technology. Soon the CBSE launches a course on this subject for students. A centre for bio-informatics with his Russian counterpart for cooperation in Allahabad soon.

When do you right to education becomes a reality?
Right to education, my dream project, reportedly as part of now, it’s not for a few technical failures. The Lok Sabha has submitted to the winter session in 2001, when the Rajya Sabha, in April 2002. He contributed to the disclosure of the House again for him, the real implementation.

What is the status of teachers NCERT plan?
There is a problem with history and Hindi. But nobody could exactly each error. But we are awaiting the judgement of the Court of Justice, and we will respect it

Synchronous with time: Kongu FM radio in the community Kongu Engineering College. — Photo: M. Govarthan

Erosion: it is the People’s Republic of genes, they imbibed the culture of excellence, which manifests itself in educational institutions. Many principles and professors of universities engineering today owe their success on the three colleges of engineering known to Coimbatore government - College of Technology, Coimbatore Institute of Technology and PSG College of Engineering College, and they are trying to implement what you then exceed their alma mater. And finally, the industrialization of the region - were the responses of principles and visiting professors, if the reason for the concentration of engineering colleges in this region, its ability to provide quality education and the best young minds.

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People here are well studied, as the best in a role and try to follow them. “Look soil fungi sander producers and foundries in and around the region. And in the case of the textile industry. The people here to promote competition and not others down,” says Natarajan, Principal, Kongu Engineering College. He added that this also applies in the department of education.

Rapid industrialization has led to the recognition of good technical skills, quality of education nourished. “People here have recognized the power of knowledge and stations began his training. The first generation formed through established colleges of engineering and roped teacher quality,” says P. Suresh Kumar, director of the division Management Studies, Kongu Engineering College.

Major reasons

The reason for the maintenance of excellence in higher education, the head of institutions and the presence of a large number of graduates from three institutions mentioned above.

“Many current members of the Faculty learned what they are today the implementation of the three technical colleges. Now they want a maximum of them, “says Kumar.

Mr. Natarajan, a graduate from PSG College of Engineering, agrees with him. The Director of Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, A. Shanmugam, is also an alumnus of the same school.

Regarding this aspect, the other factor, professors to emphasize is the emergence of Coimbatore early education as a hub for many decades. “This period is one of six engineering schools of Tamil Nadu, three were in Coimbatore,” says Natarajan.

Because of industrialization and the presence of institutions of higher technical, a lot of good engineers and academics in preference to other cities of Coimbatore and the creation of erosion is only an effect, said PSS. Srinivasan, Principal, KS Rangasamy College of Technology.

This trend can be Sciences and Humanities, where erosion Bharathiar is sandwiched between the University and Periyar Coimbatore-Salem University, said Mr. Kumar.

With the industrialization of the city, the presence of technical universities, which exceed with each other and a good ability to attract the best young minds.

“The emphasis on quality and hooks entrepreneurship students to take advantage of man,” says Srinivasan. Mr. Natarajan adds that hooks the scientific spirit in the region has been rightly the period of the late DG Naidu.

Pune: For large automobile Mahindra and Mahindra, is the next major step in training, the establishment of five engineering colleges. To be set up in two phases, the first three, it is expected that over time that the years of education from 2009.

The three institutions of higher learning are in New Delhi, Goa and Chandigarh, with the group, assigned to Rs 250 crore for the five universities, the first in Chandigarh, such as ET had reported in August 2007. Chandigarh College is about nine hectares of land, leasing is in the region and the European Union to education in the city, by the administration.

“We want to build a pipeline of man evolving, we expect to see not just one but five universities, networking, so that the specialist of the Faculty able to teach all students at the same time instead of “M & M Vice Chairman and Managing Director Anand Mahindra said.” We will allocate more money to the faculty and technology, then in five sites, since it is leading educational institutions , “he added.

M & M a parcel is already in New Delhi and Goa for these higher education institutions. In Pune, the college is Kanhe near Mala Vali on the Mumbai-Pune highway, the land that the company already owns. In Goa, the country was scheduled for training, the minimum requirement is projected for 20-30 square metres.

The other two cities, where Mahindra Engineering College is located Jaipur, where M & M is a cosmopolitan city or could ask the State Government for agriculture. The fifth element could Chennai, where M & M’s World City. While the fifth university is certainly in the south, Vineet Nayar, Vice-President and General Manager, Tech Mahindra, “she said at the company which specifies city.

Mr. Nayar, the spearhead of the incursion, she said in interviews with institutional leaders, such as Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech and the University of London.

“We are not yet finished, we bind us,” he says, though, said that from Carnegie Mellon in May.

“We are in discussions with the leaders of the British and American universities. We could even bind with two,” said Mahindra. However, says Nayar, this would happen at a later date, when schools Higher are running, and they want to select and Specialised training Institute. “At the moment, we want the settlements. Thereafter, we can increasingly, “he said.

For $ 6 billion, the group focused on the engineering field, the introduction of technology in higher education is a part of its own needs. “It is clear convergence with our business and education, but also needs, which leads to the sustainability of social protection. There is a risk of confusion if companies begin the hope of doing something social welfare and mix with the economy, said Mahindra.

Higher education institutions could Mahindra Engineering from the University of road, but said Nayar, the details remain to be elaborated. “Ideally, we should go to university status, but also in Chandigarh, we can start with a tie University of Punjab,” he said.

However, it is not all Premium and High-End. The Mahindra Pride School, the first of which is located in Chinchwad, an industry on the outskirts of Pune, socio-economic objectives weaker sections, including a portion of the class X drop-outs.
Sheetal Mehta, the director of the initiative, as I said, is the next school in Jaipur, where negotiations with the Government for agriculture.

“We are investing Rs 2.5 Crore by the school, there are no fees, we give a free meal and a faculty full time. It’s like a B-School, it is only for students from the SC / ST categories. Our three months these courses to equip socially disadvantaged groups to enhance the employability of capabilities, “said Mehta. Therefore, the program includes basic care, language skills in English and hygiene.