Once again students from the School of Business & Economics MBA programme will be taking up the challenge of competing in the 2008 Cranfield Regatta, an international sailing event which is designed to allow MBA students and alumni from all over Europe to meet their counterparts from other business schools. The regatta will take place around Port Solent and Cowes on the last weekend in July and Exeter’s eight-strong crew are working hard in the hope of a high placing for the University. The crew is made up of part-time and full-time MBA students and alumni who have a broad range of sailing skills and experience but are dedicated to doing their best for Exeter. This year’s crew consists of current students Nadia Nikolova, Simon Baird, Nagyb Shah, Stuart Harris, Richard Dawson and alumni Jonny Malcolm, Mark Roberts and Wade Tipton. The race will consist of four head to head races with the various business school teams taking part. The team has is being sponsored by Vospers South West Motor Dealership, Jam Creative, The Birmingham Assay Office and House of Marbles.

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An innovation expert from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be visiting the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), in November to promote the importance of user-based innovations in creating successful companies.

“India and Indians residing worldwide have a wonderful record as innovators and entrepreneurs. I believe users tend to be the real developers of many important products. Recently, research by my colleagues has shown that many new companies are started by users who become entrepreneurs. Learning about how user innovations foster the creation of successful new companies will be very useful information for IIM students and others in India,” says Eric von Hippel, professor and head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management and professor of Engineering Systems at MIT.

It will be his first trip to India, which he also intends to use “to forge closer contacts with my colleagues at IIM-A, who have very similar research interests”.

The lecture is part of a two-week long ‘Inventors of India’ workshop by the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM-A. About 70 inventors and innovators of all ages and technical background are expected to be present at the event. Premier institutes could also be called to participate at the workshop.

“Eric will participate and may give the inaugural address at the workshop. In addition, he will interact with the faculty and students and explore possibilities of collaborative research. Apart from visiting some grassroot innovators, he will interact with our incubatee companies as well. Several things are being planned and we are quite excited about his visit. Also, we may ask institutes like National Institute of Design (NID) and Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), to pitch in,” says Rakesh Basant, chairman of CIIE and a professor at IIM-A.

An expert in Principle of Developing Economics, Eric has made two of his books available openly on his website at no cost to the reader: Democratising Innovation, published in 2005 by the MIT Press, and Sources of Innovation, published in 1988 by Oxford University Press. Leading companies in the world have used practical methods based on his research.

Hippel is also expected to meet grassroot innovators at SRISTI, an NGO founded by Anil Gupta, a professor at IIM-A. Incidentally, Gupta too would be lecturing at MIT as part of the Amy Smith’s International design and development course on July 16-17.

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Faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta are occupied, legal advice five days before the Supreme Court against the European Union human resource development ministry, said Ashis Bhattacharyya, IIMC’s din of the planning and management.

The Tribunal is currently head PIL consultation has been suggested that the HRD with the Ministry’s decision to bar tuition annual R-IIMS lakh from 1.5 to 30 RS 000 The Faculty IIMC appears in SC On 16 April.

The Faculty IIMC was against the tax bar because she thought it would have on the autonomy of the university.

IIMC faculty members and institutions in Bangalore and Ahmedabad felt the Boards of Governors decides on tuition fees of these institutions, which are not MHRD.

The PIL in SC was filed by some ex-students and academics from the Faculty of IIMA the Faculty IIMC decided to party. In search of the rights of the expertise of the Faculty IIMC are not subject to lawyers only in the city. “We started talking about some jurists high level in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, man, regularly take up cases of the SC,” a senior Faculty said.

“The SC, after consulting the PIL, on 8 April has sought the opinion of the IIMS. But IIMS Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode Calcutta at the offices of governors, a resolution supporting the tax cut, despite l ‘opposition of the Faculty. And it review committees have been searched, “said the panel members.

Faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, have decided to wait until the Supreme Court order, it is accessible from Monday, before a decision on their future.

Given that the next consultation, if ever, in July-end, many faculty members are of the opinion that the situation could change in their favour as Murli Manohar Joshi can no longer, as before the MHRD minister after the elections.

The SC has governed IIMS MHRD and the opening of a dialogue on the issue of fees helm. If it is not sorted it, the SC to hear the case again in mid-July.

“We commend the Tribunal. We hope that reason MHRD’ll see what we tried to explain our position and application, we in the head of jurisdiction, “said Ashish Bhattacharya, IIM-C Dean of the planning and management.

The Faculty will be held on April 22 to discuss as much tax should be charged from new students, letters of admission until May the second week.

ZEE Network has announced an in-house reorganisation possibly in the wake of Zee TV President, Ms Apurva Purohit’s plan to quit.

The company says the move is aimed at job enrichment and offering higher responsibilities.

Mr Sunil Khanna, CEO, Zee Turner, would take over from Ms Purohit. Mr Khanna has been with the Zee Network for 10 years, occupying various positions, and has a track record in distribution and marketing. Mr Khanna, an engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur and management graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, is a marketing professional having worked in various marketing positions before joining Zee.

Mr Ashwini Yardi, Business Head, Zee MGM and Zee English, will assist Mr Khanna as head of programming for Zee TV.

Mr Khanna is expected to take over formally at Zee TV in Mumbai after Ms Purohit’s service period ends on 31 January.

Mr Dheeraj Kapuria, at present heading operations of Zee in the US, will take over as CEO of Zee Turner from Mr Khanna. Mr Kapuria’s deputy in the US, Mr S. Venkatasubramanian, will take over from him.

Mr Sunil Rohra, head of the UK operations and Mr Pushpinder Singh, head of the Africa operations, will report to Mr Kapuria, a press release said.

“This re-organisation is a result of our learning from an in depth internal communications exercise in which I met most of the managers within the network to assess the width of in-house talent. It was truly satisfying to reaffirm that we have an extremely talented pool of people in-house. I believe by enriching their portfolios, they will lead Zee Network into the New Year with greater vigour and effect,” the release said quoting Mr Subhash Chandra, Chairman, Zee Network.

Some of the executives have been given additional responsibilities. Mr Abhijit Saxena, currently handling international business (Asia-Pacific) and syndication of programming, will handle Zee English, Zee MGM, Trendz, Smile TV and FX Channel as business head. Mr Yogesh Radhakrishnan, in addition to his current portfolio of Zee Cinema and Zee Music, will also handle Premier Cinema, Action Cinema and Classic Cinema.

Education should focus more on morals and ethics and should fight against fundamentalism, St. Joseph’s College principal Friday Ambrose Pinto said on Thursday. Education for the poor too is a vital aspect that should be taken up, he added. As Pinto speaking at ‘with relevance Excellence “, a conference of Catholic College of Karnataka on Thursday.

Speaking on ‘Vision of Christian higher education and its overview, and implications of Christian education, education Friday Pinto said should make people more moral and humanizes them. “While maintaining the highest standards, its demands that we produce a radical change in the person we educate - from selfish concerns to generosity to others.”

Emphasising on education for the poor, Pinto said Friday: “Education should struggle against unjust society, it should cater more to the poor and programmes should be taken up to empower them. Principal of St. Stephen’s in New Delhi, Dr Anil Wilson called for steps to rediscover the real meaning and purpose of education. “Let systemic changes be a reasoned response to needs and not a knee-jerk reaction to the time.”

The objective of the day-long conference was to create a model which is yet local to global, spiritually vibrant, socially relevant, emotionally balanced and leading to human enrichment. Deliberations also included topics like, if excellence in education can be fused with greater accessibility to Christian institutions.

Among the other speakers were Professor Jose and PD Leader of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Rev. Joe Fernandes, Vice-Provincial, Salesians of Don Bosco, Bangalore and Head and Professor, Department of Christian Studies, University of Madras, Joe De Mannath .

The biggest carmaker, General Motors, India’s capital was head hunted silicon, which offers a lot of 2005 on the conclusion of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore - Shanghai China a detachment of its establishment.

It is a unique double for the institute, which since the existence of the last three decades. While the GM head hunting is probably fairly well, it is perhaps for the first time that the Middle Kingdom would be the best after a taste of India’s most prestigious B-schools.

Turning to the figures. Against five companies during the year 2004 for the location zero (the first day of qualifying period), the number this year is almost three times. The newcomer to this year are HSBC, British Petroleum, Barclays, General Motors and Bank of America.

The list of companies in 2005 to zero Slot Board consists of three companies - McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and AT Kearney.

Said Gauri Gupta of BCG: “The 2005 is well on track, particularly in analytical representation of a high degree of maturity.”

Other hirers contain a mixture of investment banks and industrial products.

Officials, which provides details have not yet been calculated, but seemed confident that these would be higher than those of 2004.

While Capital One has leased for New York, British Petroleum, it is anticipated that the supply of Singapore. HSBC is the attitude of New York, London and Hong Kong, while Deutsche Bank would recall staff to London.

One of the biggest banks in France, BNP recruitment, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

The second day of negotiations, it is the turn of the usual suspects-FMCG majors like HLL and P & G. In addition to these two Citibank is also the second day, which is also the National Kidney Foundation, Singapore.

The government wrote to the training center to initiate the coast of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Mangalore.

G. Giridhar Prabhu, president of the Chamber of Commerce Kanara and head of the Committee on sectors Coastal Agenda Task Force (CATF), said the Hindu on Friday that the Minister for large companies, RVDeshpande a meeting with representatives of LUCF in this context, on Thursday.

Mr. Prabhu, thanked the Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada, AKMonnappa, and the president of LUCF, N. Vinaya Hegde said IDECK Ltd had proposed three sites in Baikampady in Dakshina Kannada, Padubidri in Udupi District, and Agsoor near Ankola in Uttara Kannada district.

The government has shown interest in it “in principle” to the draft authorisation for private sector participation.

The government would only play a mediator. The government is not interested in what the circle and management KCCI area to recognize and develop, in collaboration with the CATF.

Mr. Prabhu said that there were now mandatory for the Centre to ask their own countries SEZ Act. He said the CATF, a copy of the Bill of Maharashtra SEZ on the Prime Minister and LUCF, he assured that the State of extending “legal cover” for the formation of the SEZ. However, on the coast SEZ is unique.

The coasts of the belt of Karnataka was known for his immense reservoir of human resources and have a huge potential for SEZ in the area of trade and services.

The OECD countries and developed countries had a lot of NIC in the services sector, which could be replicated in Mangalore, if these SEZs born here, the concept paper on the SEZ said.

The SEZ in Mangalore would be first to find trade and service companies. But it would also have an area of production, conservation, taking into account regional differences in the chemical industry.

Units could clean SEZ.

The approach paper KCCI, said the work units, such as clothing, toys, paper conversion, change packaging and specialty packaging, value-added in agriculture and cultivation of plants Horticulture, spices, rubber, coconut and arecanut based products should preferably be in the of the SEZ. Production units specialized in all entries to the Indian cuisine as masalas, finished preparations of dried vegetables, ingredients for and entrances, maize, sugar, rice and rice, wheat, potatoes and onions, vegetables dried and other processed foods and be considered for SEZ. The approach document cites the target markets of SEZ in West Asia, East and West Africa, Asia-Pacific and Russia.

The Government in its letter, said the CSEZ would be ideal for a port based on the establishment in the medium term, highlighted in the Export Strategy 2002-07.

The Union Ministry of Industry and Commerce noted that NMPT as a strategic location for the port of India in the implementation of the study Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

The National Academy of Sciences, a private organization established by Congress in 1863 to advise the Federal Government, has elected 60 new members. The election brings the number of active members to 1,683.

The academy also named 15 nonvoting foreign associates, bringing their total to 298.

Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded an American scientist or engineer. The academy said election recognized “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

Following are the new members and their affiliations at the time of the election. New Members

Yakir Aharonov, professor of physics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Paul G. Ahlquist, professor, Institute for Molecular Virology and department of plant pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Bishnu S. Atal, head, speech research department, A.T.& T. Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J.

Bruce S. Baker, professor of biological sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.

Ransom Lee Baldwin Jr., professor of animal science, University of California, Davis.

Denis Baylor, professor and chair of neurobiology, Stanford University.

Malcolm R. Beasley, professor of applied physics and electrical engineering, Stanford University.

Klaus Biemann, professor of chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Claude R. Canizares, professor of physics, head of the astrophysics division and director of the Center for Space Research, M.I.T.

Charles P. Casey, Helfaer Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin.

C. Thomas Caskey, chief of medical genetics; professor of medicine and biochemistry; director, Institute of Molecular Genetics; Henry and Emma Meyer Chair in Molecular Genetics, and investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.

One day, a seminar on “environmental management” was organized by the Department of Environmental Science, JJ College of Arts and Science in Pudukottai recently.

V. Kanagasabai, Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Annamalai University, spoke on “The elimination of solid waste,” recalled the various methods used by foreign countries, and in our country as regards solid waste disposal . In our country, all types of waste - whether biodegradable or non-biodegradable or dangerous - were gathered in the same container.

G. Swaminathan, professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, spoke on “Design and a sewage treatment plant. It focused on purifying water polluted by various means such as microbial attached to bed, a bed described in detail.

Dr. K. Jayaprakash, Head, Department of Environmental Science, welcomed the collection.

J.J. College of Arts and Science in Pudukottai organized a camp blood on their field recently. A total of 50 students, while blood donations camp, which was headed by Dr. Edwin, blood bank-Charge, Government Hospital, Pudukottai, and his team.

The school had organised a similar camp in the last month, 157 students in blood donation. The camp was conducted by a team of doctors headed by Dr. V. Veluchamy - blood bank-Charge, the Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai, a press release from the university said.

The Indian company of Education Technology (CIST) Chapter Mookambigai College of Engineering in Keeranur celebrated the Day of Teachers recently.

The direction of the College A. Subramanian memories achievements of Dr S. Radhakrishnan, when he is Chairman of Rajya Sabha.

R. Shanmugavadivelu said teachers should be awarded to students running on the latest information.

Iste The President, Professor R. Veeraghavan welcomed the collection.

A blood donation camp was organized by the Rotary Club of Tiruchi medium and Rotaract Club of Thai Than Hans Roever Peramablur College, in the university premises on Wednesday. More than 100 students donated blood.

Formation “first aid” was students.R gives. Balasubramanian St. John’s Ambulance, Tiruchi, gave useful advice for students on immediate measures to be taken to the wounded.

The payer, V. Ganesan, opened the camp.

A series of special conferences on various topics organized by the Department of Management Studies at the Thai Than Hans Roever College, Perambalur, five days, had enough exposure of students vis-à-vis several issues such as mental health and management, communications and personality development, ‘ `human resources accounting and auditing in this scenario” and “Legal aspects of consumerism and management combine.” Rajendran, Professor, Victor R. Lazar, NPS Suri and Sridhar, both Senior Manager, Madras Cements, P. Vaidyanathan, a lawyer, conferences provided.

Under the aegis of the Department of Environmental Sciences and unity NSS Girls Government Arts College, Ariyalur, “Awareness Day ozone layer was observed on 22 September. The originator, Mr. Sankararaman, invited students to put in place appropriate awareness of the masses of abuse effects of the deterioration of the ozone layer.