It’s a Sunday afternoon and class time for 39-year-old IT worker Seema Shetty. Her feet curled under her in a swivel chair, she sits in front of a computer monitor, adjusts a set of headphones, and scribbles in a notebook. Shetty, who works for consulting firm Mastek in Mumbai, is in a virtual classroom in the Vile Parle suburb, where a dozen computers link students to some of India’s elite management institutions. Today’s class is a three-hour general management lecture, part of the online education course conducted by the Xavier Labor Relations Institute in Jamshedpur, in the remote northern Indian state of Jharkhand.

A consultant for various industries from insurance to banking, Shetty signed up for an online certificate course to “learn more about my clients’ business requirements,” she says. By enrolling in the 14-month, six-hour-per-weekend online course, at a cost of $4,600, she can further her education without having to take a two-year career break to get an MBA. Learning online, says Shetty hopefully, “will definitely boost my job prospects.”

Shetty is part of a growing tribe of working professionals and students in India who have enrolled for online education certification. While it’s difficult to determine numbers of students, the online education market in India today generates about $200 million in revenue, and industry experts expect it to touch $1 billion by the end of the decade. The winning proposition: Getting knowledge from top-notch professionals without disrupting fast-track careers.

Jagdish Sheth, the recipients of the USA’s highest distinction sales educator, was recently in India leading to a panel discussion on what the industry expects management graduates. Jhumur Ghosh The reference to reports from private organizations in the field of training has been that closer relations between educational institutions and industry. This association is essential in the construction and maintenance of a relationship between the supplier and the job offer. The professional technical and management institutions offer a platform for the fulfillment of desires, expectations and demands of students in employment viable option.

Recently, a panel discussion hosted by Future Institute of Engineering and Management provided some insights into what the industry expects the Board of Management graduates. The occasion was the inauguration of the Future Business School (FBS), part of the FIEM, Kolkata. The function was beehrte Jagdish Sheth, professor of marketing at the Goizueta Business School and recipient of the highest reward educators sales in the USA. The other participants in these discussions Sunil Sood of Hutch, Pradeep Kakkar, advisor to the World Bank, HS Wadhwa of the National-Versicherungs-, Madhubani Ghosh, Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Maritime and Mousumi Ghosh IIM-Calcutta. The discussion was moderated by Biswadeep Gupta, president of Bengal and Industry Chamber of Commerce. The captains of industry during the discussion gave an overview of expectations, they had management graduates, Entry-Level. Sunil Sood, was based on personal experience to illustrate the hard truths that the B-school graduate faces, it could quite contrary to his expectations at a white-collar of employment and the High - Lifestyle flies. “Looking back,” he shared his eager public, usually composed of future leaders, “the residence as a Field Sales Executive Lakme Ltd and the hard physical work at work, without doubt enriched my learning. Of course, he had a look a little puzzled me and my batchmates. But today, I see he has certainly helped me mature as a chef and at the same time recognize that it is important, a team of humans. “Working on the ground to help break the ego under the management training, he added. Sood revealed that the employer he feels as future leaders of three. First, in countries candidates is a measure of the depth of his knowledge and ability to translate theoretical contributions to the practice. The second has to do with the candidates field of specialization, but Sood ideal is of the opinion that all leaders should be suspended each facet of the industry, it presents the work in The third is the attitude of candidates for recruitment, the individual - and confidence in the capacity as team leader, ie it understands how policies and handles team expectations. Thus Sood, does not just academic qualifications, but experience in extracurricular activities such as seminars and small events during the pursuit of a management degrees.

Pradeep Kakkar commented on the specific capabilities of management that students must acquire to meet the needs of industry. He insisted that the B-schools have had an important role to play in the development of innovative thinking capacity of future leaders. The need was imbibe new concepts, ideas and thoughts. Biswadeep Gupta stressed on the development and promotion of communication skills is essential, to the detriment of many students in India.

Wadhwa insisted on the need for management graduates, who can convince members of the team and the capacity of their superiority. Done that, in his view, the job is half finished. He insisted on a grassroots campaign where the objective was to sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. This is it stressed, should be the attitude of an MBA students certainly want a pillar of the industry.

The process of drawing up modalities for implementation of the proposed reserve 27 per cent of management institutions CBO began. The sixmember panel of experts established by the Centre and the former management of the IIM-A director Samuel Paul met in Bangalore, an initial brainstorming session.

The status of resources available on the IIMS was the central point of discussion. Members of the Faculty and evaluate the development of necessary infrastructure, as soon as the rates applied.

A questionnaire is now by the Government on the group, which are compiled and will be discussed at the next meeting on June 20 in Chennai. The refusal to develop Bakul Dholakia, director, IIM-A, told TOI from Bangalore, “It was only a first meeting in a number of meetings”. Dholakia, one of six members of the group, had already said that IIM-A’s “disk is full” and indicates its inability to increase the provision of the existing 280

The meeting took into account also the omissions IIM, Bangalore and IIM, Indore, the panel members. However, the following proposals by the group members meet on ‘, it is likely that these two IIMS in Chennai.

With the exception of Paul and Dholakia, the other members of the group include IIMKozhikode director Krishna Kumar, IIM Calcutta-director Shekhar Chaudhury, director IIMLucknow Devi Singh and the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, director SD Awale. Paul’s expert group is one of three groups - each for the construction of machines of institutions, the central government and academic institutions.

Mumbai: Distance education, which so far has meant the giant armed robbery, of course, the material delivered to your home by the factor, it is now a higher orbit.

Stretching class beyond physical limits borders, educational institutions are now uplinking their satellite services to reach students across the country.

Welcome to real-time distance learning. A person sitting in Lucknow can now participate in conferences of professors from the Indian Institute of Management, Kozikhode, XLRI, Jamshedpur, or Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai, without a foot on campus.

“It is like a live show, watching television on a personal computer (PC) on designated centres, and the ability to interact with the Leader programme by simply clicking the mouse,” said HH Mankad, Vice - Chancellor of NMIMS, which has decided it’s uplink two years a degree in business administration from September 23 cities.

So, nearly 120 students spread over 33 centres in India is also able to see and hear lectures at the Faculty of NMIMS high definition cameras in a studio in Mumbai.

“The signal is uplinked to a satellite and then relay the PC in designated centres across India,” said Amit Tripathi, vice-president, Hughes Escorts Communication Ltd. (HECL), the sole licensee for uplinking content of ‘to a consumer education of the public in India.

Students can interact with teachers, a speaker phone or by e-mail their questions. The projects are submitted online and the final evaluation is done by a written exam. So, it is compulsory for students to have 75 percent attendance. To ensure that only good students seated by conferences, the centres have biometric sensors to collect thumb prints.

Coupling between 75000 RS RS 1.05 lakh, these courses are less expensive than traditional on-campus course management as students, save on costs of accommodation and food, “said Chirag Unadkar of NMIMS.

“With mushrooms soil management institutions, we are seeking new avenues for market penetration,” said Mankad. Also, instead of registration in a third Thursday of the Institute students may now be over these institutes of repute, he added.

Although the course is a NMIMS full-time with a four-four hours of meetings, the four-day week, institutes like the Manipal Academy of Higher Education and part-time XLRI offer certificate courses over weekends.

“These courses are particularly suited for the work of the research centre professionals to improve career,” said Tripathi.

With the exception of Indian Institute, HECL, the commercialization of technology under the brand name - DirecWay Global Education, also closely linked with foreign institutions such as Apollo and Cornell universities in the USA.

HECL provides technology and infrastructure (studio and classroom equipped with computers), while institutions retain full control over content.

In Mumbai, it was a week after Mix luggage. A week after inclined vis-à-vis factors - the creation and destruction, joy and sadness, ahievements beatings and maltreatment. Even if it is a mixture of luggage, dominates the negative side this week because of the serious adverse events such as rising discipline in the police force itself has led to kill the police chief or family and yourself.

But before that, first of all the good news. And believe me, it is very, very creative. Students from the Industrial Design Centre of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is organizing an exhibition of his models of structural improvement of various gadgets, vehicles, etc. The visitors were zapped by the creativity of these students, their presentations 26 projects within the categories of products and visual communication.

It included a new structure of the Maruti 800, a tractor and even a mobile phone. Students of this visual communication, entertainment, observers, experience, part of the famous few stories full of humor written by legendary writers Marathi Pu.La.Deshpande and implemented in our heritage of ‘art and culture.

If Mumbai IITians are used to develop models and visual gadets, students, management institutions are occupied, just a helping hand United Nations on the reduction of their writings. Nine students of Mumbai’s Education Trust Management Institute, a software reduction of bureaucracy. His demonstration was given, if the United Nations, NGOs met here in March. And from April 12 these students began working within the United Nations for the implementation of the project. The project is June 7.

And now the bad news. After the creation and achievements, it is still the destruction and bad shots. Everyone has seen on television, he lives, when security at the airport in Mumbai, was held to ransom.

As everyone knows, R Namdeo, CISF jawan posted at the airport killed his commanding officer and five of his colleagues hostage. In what has been topic of discussion in the media the next day, the smile on the face indicating Namdeo no regrets after his arrest, was clearly visible on the pictures printed in newspapers. A newspaper had released Marathi Namdeo is a theory which states that the action to kill his boss was linked to his relationship of love in the department. His command tried to drain her boyfriend of himself in such a case. This led to the incident.

In another incident the following day, a police officer in Mumbai killed his wife, son and then. He was, according to the reports with the full nose ulcer, which was caused much anger and grief. These incidents were still with the debate on the workload of police lack of parking weekly, leaves and fixed periods of service, etc. Whether something positive out of it, is a big question.

FOR THOSE working executives who want to move up in their career by doing management courses, it could happen right from their place. The management programmes of several reputed institutions in the country can be done from anywhere in Tamil Nadu without the students having to leave their place.

Direcway Global Education, a venture of Hughes Escorts Communications Limited, offers management education for working professionals and graduates to enable them get degrees from the city they work in without having to quit the job. Courses of IIM, XLRI, IIFT and the Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) are among the institutions with which Direcway has a tie-up. Live and interactive classes are held at several centres in the country via a satellite broadband network from a central studio. Degree, diploma and certificate programmes of 10 premier management institutions are offered.

At present, an Executive Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management programme of LIBA is being offered and admissions are undertaken by Direcway. It is a 14-month programme that can be taken by working executives for their career prospects. Classes will be held twice a week — on Wednesday and Friday — for three hours each day. The course is aimed at preparing candidates for senior management positions. The graduates are also eligible to apply. The selection is done on the basis of group discussions and personal interview. Admissions are being made in December and January.

Some of the advantages of the programme are that students can interact online with faculty across the country, study without leaving their job and their town, avail education loan and receive certificate from reputed institutions. In Tamil Nadu, it has centres in Chennai, Madurai, Tiruchi and Coimbatore.

Fraudsters CAT must be, as a jolt to the mismanagement of the candidate, but here’s good news, which guarantees to pull away the blues. Average salaries for MBA graduates charges brought after a jump during the last year. And in the management sector predicting a rosier future.

“In India, there were two phases of recession, with regard to remuneration. The first was during the period before the liberalisation period (1991-92) that increased wages and click on the peak of 2000″ - Y entrepreneurs said Srinivas, who received a complete management of the famous Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

The era of liberalization has been marked by an influx of multi-national companies, on packages of Pay-inflated.

“After 2000, he came to a global economic recession for a few years, and this is reflected in the wage structure as well. Admittedly, there was not much hindsight, the situation has played a role. Now, with seven percent growth of gross domestic product (GDP), wages are the lifting of the hotel. Indeed, information technology is also witnessing the same trend, “says Srinivas.

Echo of the same opinion Bhuvana Ramalingam, director (communications) at the Indian School of Business, Gachibowli. “The economy is improving and pay-packets are certainly better research and more,” explains the director.

Last year, the average annual earnings of a student at the ISB has been about 8.5 lakh business as an institution that seeks the ISB to the maintenance of students for entry into the middle and upper management positions.

The promise of better pay has also encouraged students to technology management information transitional stages. Says K dev, who earned a Bachelor of Computer-applicat ion Osmania University, “The salaries of graduates management offered has increased compared to those of information technology. That is why I have diminished the possibility of a programmer and turned the management “.

At present, the pursuit of an MBA from a leading management institutions in South Asia - the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi - Dev seeks a starting point to pay approximately 3.5 - 4 lakh case

Less than two years after the Father Alphonse Beni Ekka has Xavier as a director of the Institute of Social Sciences in 1998, he jumped on the 22 B ranks schools across the country, a ranking of 50 The Institute is now ranked among the top 20 management institutions in the country. Ekka was quickly recognize the need for changes in the curriculum, which in better results and standings. Ekka also four buildings of the Institute if the Institute are not exactly in the financial health of the rose.

Ekka, born in Palkot (Gumla). After primary school in his village school, he moved to end Gumla High School, then St. Xavier’s Ranchi, where he studied political science in 1972. He has a BA in philosophy from Chennai and went then studied theology at two Undergraduate and post-graduate diploma. Kehrte it Ranchi in the year 1981 the opening of education in St. Xavier’s College. Alo Ekka is credited for turning the finances of St. Xavier’s College. The school, who are routinely late in paying their salaries for teachers because of delays in government assistance, was self-sufficient by Ekka? Efforts. In an interview with Anupam Sheshank, he spoke of the recent crisis of belonging and projects.

India had around 900 B-schools, business schools, MBAs producing nearly 85,000 per year in March 2003. Conversely, Europe had just 338 B-number of schools with lower MBA students by around 25 percent. Multinational companies are now visiting campuses of leading Indian B-schools to offer attractive plum jobs and pay packets. Recruitment additionally are being made for investments abroad in countries such as the US, Singapore, Hong Kong and the UK. An MBA from a top Indian B-school costs much less at around rs2 lakh while that from a recognised university abroad costs nearly Rs30-40 lakh.

Besides, the foreign universities entail huge expenditure on application money and the mandatory GMAT. This huge difference in costs and fees is encouraging students to seek academic degrees within India rather than from foreign universities. Students have the facility to avail scholarship or loan in India. The quality of education in India though has deteriorated due to excessive holidays, observes A Balasubramanian, Executive Director, Indian Institute of Modern Management of Pune.

Several eminently management institutions are looking at upgrading their course content, faculty facilities and standard of education in India. Information technology is becoming a growing part of the course content keeping in line with changing facet of the corporate world. The Indian B-schools have started focusing on sectors like insurance, manufacturing and business process outsourcing spurt given in recruitments in these segments. Operations management and international business are among new areas of specialisation

Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) exëvo company that provides support for the service of MR in extradition matters, in New Delhi, has partnerships with a number of management institutions in the Indian capital. The agreement is aimed at training and continuing education for staff in the attitude of the institutions of art talents.

Institutions, exëvo says, are among the best reputation in the field of mathematics, analytical accounting and technological education, Fore School of Management at the University of Delhi, the Indian Institute of Planning and Management, and Bharati Vidypeeth College of Engineering. Business and technical skills training programmes specially designed to be exëvo employees.

President and CEO, said Manish modes of the company aims to all its employees’ a fast-track career, being refuelled, and therefore their growth within the company and give them a chance to develop. “He adds:” Strong analytical skills together with the economics of intelligence and statistics are of crucial importance for our business and we plan to invest heavily in training and talent of our pool to set up a Best-in-Breed Knowledge Centre, offers the international market. ”

Exëvo was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New York with offices in London, delivery and agencies in New Delhi. It is currently private property and two dozen clients across North America, Europe and Asia