Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) is here for his mark on the international market for training Arena.

The Institute Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with several foreign universities for students and teachers exchange programs. XLRI now operates from a course in Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in collaboration with Dubai-based Al-Abbas Institute of Technology in the past two years.

XLRI director father P.D. Thomas, said the Institute had received a proposal from Kuwait at the beginning of a university gives the name of Xavier University of Kuwait. “Last year, we have the diploma program management system based on satellite class E program, in collaboration with Noida-based IT company Hughes.” He said, Faculty of plans for an exchange program with China Peking University Beijing for the International MBA program (BIMBA), shortly before the close. The tie-up with BIMBA, which is a joint venture between Jesuit-28 Business Schools in the USA and the University of Beijing, came after an agreement with the dean of the programme of Ron Anton, a former professor at Loyola College, Baltimore, USA. American visiting professor position for BIMBA is also XLRI.

XLRI officials said Bank of Oman, the Institute for a year of progress for its Muscat leaders. The Bank has agreed to classrooms and sends inns and XLRI of the Faculty.

Members of the programme for foreign students “Exchange (balance) said XLRI is likely to sign an agreement with the University Eichstätt November in Germany for teachers and student exchange programmes joint research and training.” The University invites members of the College of finance, marketing and human resources, “Nakul Gupta, secretary balance. Requests come from Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and universities in the north-east India.

A professor responsible XLRI, requesting anonymity, said the Research Institute on a common programme of the University of Waterloo, Canada, and research and the Faculty exchange programmes with Wharton School of Business, Pennsylvania, Loyola University, Chicago and the University of Yogyakartha, Indonesia.

The Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM-K) on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for scientific and educational cooperation.

The MoU was signed by Professor, Neil Quigley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International), Victoria University, and Krishna Kumar, Director, IIM-K. The two universities have agreed to promote exchange of academic staff, PhD and post-graduate students and academic information and materials under the agreement. Also the MoU underlines the need to undertake joint research and participation in conferences and academic meetings.

Professor Quigley said the New Zealand Government’s decision to introduce new fee regime for international doctoral students from January 1, 2006, had opened the doors of opportunities for Indian students seeking admissions at Victoria University.

According to the new policy, international PhD students are charged domestic fee of $3,800 a year.

Moreover, the spouse of PhD students would get an open work permit. Pre-school, primary or secondary school education is free for children of PhD students. Also, PhD students can work up to 20 hours per week, Prof. Quigley said.

“India is an emerging market for Victoria and this agreement is part of our internationalisation strategy of seeking high quality teaching and research partners in the Asia-Pacific region,” Prof. Quigley said.

Dr .Krishna Kumar in his presidential address said that unlike other MoUs where student exchange programmes were highlighted first, this MoU has mentioned in its first paragraph itself about the faculty exchange programmes. He said faster the changes in the field, the greater is the need for research. IIMs have a lesser number of faculty members compared to IITs. Hence the IIM-K was trying to become catalysts of research programmes. A documentation centre having documents related to European and ASEAN countries alone will be started soon at the IIM-K library. The Institute is thinking of offering post-doctoral facilities, including its state-of-the-art library facilities.

K. Unnikrishnan Nair, faculty member, IIM-K said doctoral programmes may be started soon in IIM-K. P. Rameshan, faculty member, IIM-K and Arun Abraham, faculty, Victoria University, also spoke.

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.

MANIPAL Dec 12 Asia Pulse - TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal (TAPMI) sign a declaration of intent on December 23 with the School of Business Administration, Oakland University, USA.

The alliance would be faculty, exchange of pupils, students and research training, TAPMI said in a press release.

Oakland University’s School of Business Administration has pioneered many innovative programmes in recent years.

It is expected that the proposed alliance would allow the two institutions a competitive advantage and management training, research and publications.

Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) is housed in the sprawling Loyola College campus in Chennai. The institute initially offered a three-year part-time PGDBM (post-graduate diploma in business management) course, which aimed to assist employed people to better their prospects.

LIBA then moved on to two-year full-time PGDMB programme in 1995. It also offers one- year post-graduate diploma course in financial engineering, financial management, healthcare management, human resource management, international business, market research and marketing management. LIBA has entered into student and faculty exchange agreement with Griffith University of Australia and St.