Mumbai-based S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) is all set to launch its first course at the S P Jain Centre of Management (SPJCM) in the Knowledge Village in Dubai on 13 Jun 2004. The Institute wants to bring a multinational context to its student and faculty body and to the manner in which it runs its programmes. The Knowledge Village in Dubai will house leading universities and training centres from all over the world, forming the first `global campus’. SPJCM will offer a one-year full-time postgraduate diploma and management (PGDM) course. The course will offer four specialisations specific to the professional needs of Dubai, including investments banking and wealth management in the financial services sector; and retail management and hospitality management.

The Institute will hold road shows in India, Pakistan and most of the Middle East countries so as to recruit a mix of NRI and local Arab students.

The faculty will be a mix of SPJI lecturers, visiting professionals and full-time staff.

Manipal: Welcome Group Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Manipal organizes an international symposium, ‘Hospitality Vision-2007 from 27 to 28 February, said the coordinator of the symposium Prof YG Tharakan.

Under the symposium discussions on the hospitality industry, new trends in marketing technology facility, planning in HORECA, challenges the hospitality of education and vocational training, management of the hotel successful projects, challenges the hospitality of the training scenario, thresholds Careers for graduates of hospitality, entrepreneurship in new areas of the service industry , The revenue management in hotels and international airlines and changes in trends in the house.

Dignitaries from Cornell Nayang Institute of Hospitality Management, American Hotel and Lodging Association, USA, ITC Hotels, Bangalore International Airport, Hotel advisers Margrete Hospitality Pvt Ltd, Kerala, Taj Group of Hotels, IBM India Pvt Ltd, The Orchid Hotel Mumbai, TA Pai Management Institute Manipal and Gulf Air, Bahrain will participate in the framework of the symposium.

Pune: Academy board members may be operating closer to the market beyond the former Corporate Campus-tie-ups in the field of research and training.

In symbiosis between the Institute of Studies and Research (SICSR) could soon be an example, that educational institutions of power, the assembly lines of new products in future periods.

In this case, however, training institutes are the targets of SICSR assume the task of designing an ERP-CRM package for academic institutions and universities in India.

How Harshad Gune, Associate Professor in SICSR and project coordinator, explains: “We have floated the idea of an ERP solution, including aspects such as cinema, finance, hospitality, management and libraries other requirements typical of training equipment. We have done the ground search and are now in the process of the feasibility of opinion. ”

Of course, it would not be a purely commercial offers, the result could channelised areas. “It would not be 100% free, but a combination of the availability and price based on supply. Business models are completed, because we have several opportunities for partnerships, Gune clear, and said he was familiar with funding opportunities.

The basic module of this ensemble is an enterprise level ERP and CRM which bears the name of Compiere, part Jitendra Pawar, project manager for this solution. “We try, as a proof-of-concept for an academic institution. Modules such as finance, distribution, production, pre-and post-entry-entries are also available on the board. ”

About 80 percent of the solution, there is a plug-and-Play module, while the remaining revenue transit through tenders. The package is a past Open Source and students are a major contributors. Issues such as IP are also discussed with industry leader is Open Source.

Pawar adds that the idea is to publish the product changes or modifications to other universities, if the need arises.

If the product is a market? “Why not,” Pawar gushes, “The competition is hotting education. Given that the international universities in the domestic sector, Indian counter-parties should be with them on technology.” The biggest obstacle in his opinion, however, lack of standardized process.

The first pilot, obviously would be a symbiosis, it is planned los flows in the next six months. “Our demands are ready and the system is in place. We are ready, with the mix and match is a party and drive fast outside,” said an optimistic Pawar.

Indian B schools and institutes of hotel management abroad have been a day beeline for Gurgaon.

After Ansal Institute of Technology and IIMT, tie ups with American and British university, it is now at a turning point in the french Hospitality Institute - VATEL - open their doors in the satellite town of Delhi.

VATEL a dozen hotel and tourism management schools in the world, with the largest campus in Nimes, France. VATEL DLF India was established in Gurgaon, in conjunction with Oberoi and Oberoi, has more than four decades of experience in hotel, Hospitality Management initial and continuing training. VATEL VATEL India as the world is credited with several renowned institutions such as World Association for Tourism and Hotel management training, International Association of Schools Hotel Directors, International Hotel Restaurant Association, the Council of the hotel and restaurant institutional Education USA.

VATEL DLF Gurgaon in India offers Bachelor studies in hotel management and administration and prepares students for operational monitoring and management positions in industry. The program combines cutting management science with the technical know-how in the hotel and catering management, expanding health care institutions, airlines and other multinationals. The course will be reinforced through the immediate application of knowledge in situations such as holiday clubs in hotels and restaurants.

After India VATEL director, Virender Oberoi, the first half of three-year Bachelor’s Degree in Gurgaon. The five remaining semesters that the three paid internships working in France. Arrangements are being made with the Alliance Française CAiSE Delhi for a 30-day Crash Course orientation followed by the French culture throughout the first half. After the successful graduation and return to India, India, Vatel provides help for career planning, personal and professional development.

In the meantime, Gurgaon-based Management Development Institute (MDI), a leader of B-School has L’Inde when creating the first ever Competence Center in the country, based on the component based Enterprise System , In cooperation with Sweden. The State-of-the-art technology of the Industrial and Financial Systems (IMS) of Sweden. The activities of this centre of competence is the applied research on components based on technology seizure of case studies on the implementation of the component applications based Business-Management Development Programme MDI.

Other activities include business meetings is based on the component applications and practical experiences for Post-Graduate help Indian students, especially sems component is based on business applications and use of State - of-the-art technology based on the component during seminars and workshops.

IFS technology, particularly for SMEs, the quasi-MDI has a Centre of Excellence in Information Management (CEXIM), with the support of the European Union, assist in the adoption of information technology for sems Business Excellence, in close cooperation with CII. According to Dr. Devi Singh, director of MDI, the center offers competition MDI aboard B compared to other schools in the country

NEW DELHI OCT. 5. Using technology once again as the bridging force, the Hughes Direcway Global Education Platform has launched three new courses as part of its new tie-up with Cornell University.

The prestigious university will be offering three of its popular courses in general management, human resource management and hospitality management through the virtual classrooms of Hughes that currently offer management programmes on the same medium through their tie- up with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode and Xaviers Labour Research Institute (XLRI). To be delivered across ten cities of the country, the programme is now open for working professionals.

Founded In 1865, Cornell University is a private endowed university and federal land-grant institution of New York State. A member of the Ivy League and partner of the State University of New York, it established the first four- year school of hotel administration and industrial and labour relations.

The general management courses are for mid level to senior level managers who want to upgrade their existing fundamental skills.