A report has suggested that it is likely that British students considering taking MBA courses in the UK will find it increasingly hard to find loans to cover the cost of their post-graduate studies.

According to a report in the Financial Times, the appeal of MBA courses in the US had recently been increasing among British students, thanks to the weak dollar.

However, the paper has now learnt that the credit crunch has dramatically reduced the number of student loans available for those considering such post-graduate courses.

It pointed to research carried out by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators that showed that 50 lenders have suspended their post-graduate student loan deals.

“The cost of loan repayment is particularly high for students from outside the US who apply for loans from US institutions,” the paper explained.

“This is because credit references are not required and also the lenders find it harder to track down students on graduation if they return to their home countries.”

As a result, a British student looking for a post-graduate student loan in the US can expect to have to pay interest of around seven per cent.

With US MBA courses typically costing around $150,000 (£75,000) to complete, the rising price of loans could put many British students off, even though they know they will be able to secure high-paying jobs after graduation.

Source : gaapweb.com

KOCHI: Until a few years back, most students, physics, chemistry and biology (PCB) Stream was hunt of their dreams to a doctor. But today, they must know that the flow is not only to MBBS alone.

Let’s drive you to countless options for vocational training and exciting prospects in the flow of PCBs.

Fort knowledge developed biological asked to focus on small territories, as anatomy and physiology, biotechnology, botany, genetics, marine biology and zoology.

Even in these subdivisions, many sub-specialties. The boom is in the process of biotechnology.

Micro-biology, bio-informatics and biochemistry fields have much to offer.

“If you are preparing a biology for you the most exciting fields in the decades to come - biotechnology, bioinformatics and biochemistry,” said Mohankumar C, Department of Botany, University College, Thiruvananthapuram.

It is encouraging to note that many colleges in the country have already begun post-graduate courses in graduate and biotechnology.

Biotechnology is the use of micro-organic plant and animal cells for the production of materials such as foodstuffs, medicine and chemistry, can be used in everyday life.

“Biotechnology has applications in many fields. When you use the right approach, not only we get good teachers and professors, but also skilled scientific researchers and entrepreneurs effective,” remarked Mohankumar.

And the two pillars of biotechnology and plant science Animal Science, which speaks for its application in genetic engineering, pharmacy, production of disease and herbicide-resistant plants, food production, waste management and many other areas.

What you need is an aptitude test for research. “A student with an insight into biotechnology and its applications in the high school class itself is a positive sign. School children come here to do projects in the field of biotechnology. You will notice that the flow is directed to medical research, “said CS Poulose, head of the department of biotechnology, Cochin University of Science and Technology.

SYMBIOSIS International Educational Centre (SIEC) is opening its first campus outside Pune, in Delhi, next year. The deemed university status for Symbiosis puts it at par with Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia that allows it to frame its own syllabus, confer its degree and open campuses anywhere, subject to local government permission, within and outside India. Following this, Symbiosis plans to open campuses not only in India but also in Oman, Mauritius and Thailand by the year 2005. The main thrust area of education in these countries will focus on Undergraduate, Post-graduate courses along with Management Development Programmes.

“For the Delhi Campus, the university has identified a 4-acre plot in Dwaraka that will start with its Law College, for which students will be enrolled on the basis of a national-level common entrance test,” said Dr S. B. Majumdar, Founder President and Director, Symbiosis. Dr Majumdar was the Head of the Botany Department of Fergusson College. He started Symbiosis at his residence promoting the welfare, education and hospitality for both Indian and foreign students.

At present, Symbiosis has 23 institutions and 112 courses. It has student strength of 30, 000, with a large number of them from North India and the third world countries. Apart from this, Symbiosis also offers a Centre for Distance Learning, where around 45, 000 NRI’s, and Indian students as well as working professionals have enrolled.

Some of the biggest names in the industry of India share a common Business Institute in the southern city of Hyderabad, in collaboration with two Top U.S. Business Schools.

The proposed $ 130 million is managed and funded by Indian groups in collaboration with the JL Kellogg and the Wharton Business School.

The Indian partners include, among others, Reliance Industries, Bajaj, Hindustan Lever, Infosys Technology, and India Tobacco Company.

Chief Minister Naidu: Going for High-Tech Growth

The campus of the Indian School of Business is built on the ground of 250 hectares is located in the suburbs of Hyderabad.

The Director General of McKinsey & Co Inc, Rajat Gupta, who is president of the Business School, said the money for the project were raised by various companies.

It is run as a non-profit organization in preparation Corporate guide for the future, he said.

Mr. Gupta said that $ 80m for the first phase of the project have already been addressed.

It offers Post-Graduate courses in the fields of management, Executive Education programs and promotion programs.

Mr. Gupta said the courses are offered, students 20 -30% of the costs of courses similar to the USA.

Indian Institute of Modern Management of Pune, Maharashtra post graduate courses in management. The school has 29 full-time and 30 members of the Faculty to visit. Each batch, on an average of 120 students. The university campus is on 4.55 hectares, including the youth hostel students, classrooms, a library and computer center, in a quiet residential area of the option for members and staff, CDM / Conference Placement and sport and recreation in residence.

The facilities available on campus, playground, gymnasium, multi-purpose hall, canteen and students commonroom. One hundred percent of students are in jobs recruitment Campus. The library has 32,919 books and CDs / videos. The school has 2 labs of 4 servers and 155 computers. S Krishnamurthy is the school director.

Granted Deemed University status this year, the Symbiosis International Education Centre will be opening a new campus in the Capital in the coming year.

The only campus outside Pune as of now, the University also plans to open new branches in Oman, Mauritius and Thailand. A four-acre plot has already been identified in Dwarka for the Law College, which will enrol students through a common entrance test, according to an announcement by the University here today. The areas of focus as far as its international campuses go would be undergraduate and post graduate courses apart from those on the lines of management development programmes.

With over 30,000 students pursuing 112 courses through its 26 institutions, the Symbiosis Institute claims to educate some 49,000 non-resident Indians through its Centre for Distance learning. The Institute is the brainchild of S.B. Majumdar, who headed the Botany department of Fergusson college for nearly 20 years. It was established in 1971 as the Symbiosis International Cultural and Educational Centre in Pune to promote friendship, co-operation and understanding between Indian and foreign students.

The institute currently imparts courses ranging from human resource development, foreign trade, mass communication, arts and commerce, telecommunication and information technology among others.

NEW DELHI: In order to help her students earn “the ability of immediate employment,” University of Delhi, has worked closely with ICICI Bank to start certificate, diploma and post graduate courses in banking and financial services .
E-Learning Center

The Bank is the establishment of e-learning centers for the creation of a group of highly qualified students in the nine institutions of higher learning: Acharya Narendra Dev College; Bharati College; Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, College of Vocational Studies; Shaheed Bhagat Singh College (evening); Syama Prasad Mukherjee College, School of Open Learning, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.

“As the Memorandum of Understanding between the University and ICICI Bank in May of this year, the two partners offer modular courses of banking and financial services. After students of the course, they are a source From Compaq entry level for bank employees. Notre benefit is their contribution, “said KN Tripathi, dean of research at the University of monitoring the project.

Three weeks A training programme was held in June faculty for faculty of the University to continue to give lessons, students, courses.

“The program was introduced by ICICI Bank and 19 members of the faculty of various schools. Several leaders of the Bank, interactive meetings with the teachers about the foundations of the banking sector. Themes such as e-banking, real credit, banking and finance rural rural were discussed. Facilitates industry, visits were for teachers a sense of the whole set-up, “said Madhu Vij professor at the Faculty of Management Studies, in connection with the project since its inception.

“ICICI Bank has expressed its readiness, the course at your disposal. Science of this industry to the interface is to bridge the gap between the two. The idea is to gather around the curriculum in line with the Requirements of the industry. We tried to do that in the first three years, ICICI Bank is to absorb all students, but of course, there will be rules for the screening of the student in the entrance From range, “said Professor Vij.

While e-learning at the centre of nine institutions of higher learning in all expects its work from October to November this year at the School of Open Learning is already the first week of the month .

NEW DELHI, Aug. 10. ENROLLING Undergraduate in a course at a university after his 12nd Indian Examinations, after 19 years of Amar Yadav, would hardly helped to get a job. Amar, who made his last years B.Sc. — (Hons) in hotel management at the Institute for International Management and Technology (IIMT), Gurgaon, has just returned after a year’s internship at the Radisson Hotel in London. He is now convinced that a good break in the gastronomic sector, not only in India but also in the international market.

IIMT a tie-up at Oxford Brookes University, UK, UK offers a level of their students. The degree to Dr. Kamlesh Misra, Director, IIMT, “was comparable to the level proposed in the UK, and if the student wishes, it was also the last year for which, of course, on campus and UK. “IIMT is a joint venture of Radisson Hotels International, Edwardian Group in Germany, India and Unitech GGL Co., Ltd, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd

With more and more Indian students in search of work and career-oriented courses in Indian universities is not able to offer courses in quality, there was a growth of a large number of ‘private sector actors, provide foreign degree in India.

Apart from IIMT, is the training institute in Integrated Management (IILM), which has a tie-up with the University of Bradford, and offers a wide range of Undergraduate and Post-Graduate courses and Wigan and Leigh outside the college UK, a number of vocational courses.

The factor is that in all these foreign financial institutions and insurance, a job. Another factor common to all these institutions, the fact that none of them are recognized by the Indian government. So how credible are these courses?

“We are not the government’s efforts on the recognition that our courses are recognised by the industry,” notes Dr. Ahindra Chakravarti, Director, IILM.

“All our courses are the same as for the curriculum offered at the university in Britain. The study comes from there, but the studies are, themselves, and the Faculty is also, for them,” says Mishra. “All of our programs have one year of training, and most of our students go to Britain, the United States or Australia for their internship,” he says.

Outside the campus at Gurgaon, IIMT also has a new campus in Kolkata, where you can take a B.Sc. (Hons) in the hotel management program. “Our program is recognized as the best hotel management courses in Europe and the United States. That’s why we do not bother on the recognition by the Indian government. We are confident that our students receive, in some of the best hotels in the world, “Professor Note Saha, Director, IIMT, Kolkata.

Inasmuch as the students are concerned, all issues that are, ultimately, which is the fact that decent work. Vartika said, a final years B.Sc. (Hons) IIMT student at Gurgaon, “I prefer certainly a global scale rather as an Indian degrees, which is not recognized anywhere in the world.” On the other side, Mr. Vinay Pasricha, Wigan and Leigh, said that the biggest benefit in the course of his institute, the reports indicate that nearly 3000 students from different organizations, whether focused on commercial companies. “Whether it is a post-graduate diploma in management courses or diploma in fashion designing all of our students an education in an enterprise of the date on which they in the course. In most cases, in which companies rent their training, “he said.

Mr. Pashricha believes that the University of India not to deliver, and the number of vocational institutes much less than the actual demand, more and more students from India abroad for professionals courses of study.

When Dr. IILM of Chakravarti, who said: “Our courses are geared towards the needs of work and are of a high academic standard. On the contrary, university courses are obsolete and not equip a student on the face of the industry. Therefore, more and more large number of students come to us in the Undergraduate level.

Drawing a comparison between the bids and the way throughout the country leading organizations such as the IIMs, NIFTs and NID, Mr. Pasricha said, “Our courses are more survival is commercially available in the first Institute of India.

The IIMs and NIFTs doubt, the cream of students, but none of the Indian Institute offer such a variety of vocational courses. ”

“The IIMs have a track record of 25 years, while the chains of Foreign Studies in India are new and is rapidly gaining popularity,” said Dr Mishra IIMT, Gurgaon.

The industry, on the other hand, it seems quite open, the recruitment of students from these universities.

Says Mr. Ranjan Bargotra, president of the advertising agency Wachsmalstifte, “reflect what we, as the hiring of a person is within its jurisdiction.

Qualifications little question these days. We recruited students from Wigan and Leigh for our clients media and service departments and are very satisfied with them. ”

Finally, scientists of Education, Mr SP Bakshi, who believes that the introduction of foreign courses of study in India is a huge blow to the government of the education policy. “The education system in our country is archaic. Foreign these studies, one or more openings for these students,” he says.

The suburbs of Chembur and Ghatkopar have emerged as the prime centres for culture and education. These institutes have emerged out of the humility of certain selfless individuals like Hashu Advani and K J Somaiya who had made it their mission to turn the suburbs into centres of civilisation. With numerous colleges and cultural-educational institutes, training centres for the differently-abled, both the suburbs have become the favourite for educational and cultural events. “The students of both suburbs are indeed lucky to have so many learning centres inspiring them to do their best,” says Rajiv Nanda of the popular Ramachandar’s institute of Chembur. Tata Institute
of Social Sciences, Vivekananda Education Society and Somaiya Vidya Vihar, have established their reputation as citadels of education in Mumbai. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), surrounded greenery at Deonar, is a pioneering Institute for Social work and a Centre of excellence in Social Service Research in South Asia. Having the status of a Deemed University, it lures students India and abroad to pursue Post-Graduate courses in Social Work, Personnel Management and Industrial Relations. As R R Singh, Director of TISS avers, “Students here are trained for life.” Vivekanand Education Society is another institution that trains students to face the challenges of life. They believe that, “If you give fish to someone, he will eat it, but if you teach him how to fish, he will stand on his own feet,” Hashu Advani set up not one but 24 institutws, catering to the diversified needs of the students. “Hashu Advaniji planted a sapling of learning 40 years ago and now we have a Banyan tree that provides wholesome education in different fields to innumerable students, ” says J Wadhwani of the Education Society. Recently, the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee laid the foundation stone of the Hashu Advani complex that will house more institutes of technology and culture. Vivekananda College of Engineering is one of the best in Mumbai and in demand for students. Another Engineering College that has the infrastructure to provide quality education to its students is Somaiya Vidya Vihar.
With 30 educational institutions, it has a campus of 60 acres at Vidya Vihar. Falling under the categories of Somaiya Vidya Vihar, Somaiya Tantra Vihar, Somaiya Sanskruti and Somaiya Ayurvihar, these institutes offer a variety of courses in Arts, Science, Commerce, Education, Engineering, Medicine, Management, Mass Communication and Religion. What distinguishes the Somaiya Group of Institutes from others, however, is emphasis on culture. The ancient languages of Pali and Sanskrit are imparted to students. Science of Yoga is taught at the degree level at their Yoga Academy and reputed religious scholars have visited the Centre of Buddhist Studies and Indological Research Institute to quench the spiritual thirst of its members.
SNDT women’s university is another institute of Ghatkopar that caters to the educational needs of the gujju girls of the suburb. Jhunjhunwala College of Arts, Science & Commerce, founded by a postman turned educationist, is a leading institute in Ghatkopar. Similarly, N G Acharya Marathe College of Arts, Science & Commerce cater to the average student from the economically backward sections of society also.
Along with colleges imparting education in different fields of specialisation, the suburbs have good coaching classes training students for examinations. “To survive in the world of competition, students need guidance to tackle exams,” says D S Rawat of Vidyarthi Academy, the institute that trains students for IIT-JEE and medical entrance tests.
To aspiring teachers, Pillai’s College of Education and Chembur Education Society give training for Diploma and Degree in Education.
Both these suburbs are socially conscious and encourage the differently-abled.
National Society for Equal Opportunities for the Handicapped (NASEOH) and National Job Development Centre (NJDC), are havens for these students, imparting training in various skills from gardening to Desk-Top printing and computer languages. Reputed computer centres providing alternate career opportunities to the students abound the suburb. “We have been training students for more than a decade now in advanced technologies (Software & Security) in the networking systems,” avers Jitendra Nair of Technologies, the largest computer training Centre, with 16 labs, 4 classrooms and 200 computers.
‘Learning without culture is no education at all,’ learned believe. What sets Chembur and Ghatkopar apart from the rest of Mumbai is that the suburbs are alive with cultural activity all through the year thanks to institutions like Fine Arts Society, Raja Rajeshwari Bharata Natya Kala Mandir, Rasika Ranjani Sabha and Ghatkopar Sangeeta Vidyalaya. Courses and concerts in classical music and dance are organised here!
Also to keep the citizens in touch with their roots, organisations like Subramania Samaj, Sarada Vidya Kendra, Hariharaputra Samaj and Fine Arts Society conduct classes in Sanskrit and Vedas. What more do the suburbanites need? With quality education, traditional and cultural arts available in plenty, they are more than happy to live in these suburbs!

Symbiosis International Educational Center (SIEC), the opening of the first campus outside Pune, Delhi, during the next year. The status of the university to place on the Symbiosis-by Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Jamia Millia Islamia, which allows it to manage its own curriculum frameworks, and their level conference to open campuses everywhere, the local government, subject to authorization, both inside and outside India. As a result of these plans to open Symbiosis campus, not only in India but also in Oman, Mauritius and Thailand in the year 2005. The main thrust of education in these countries will have an impact on Undergraduate, Post-Graduate courses in collaboration with the management of development programmes.

“For Bangalore campus, the University has a 4-hectare plot in Dwaraka, which are, with their Law College, for students enrolled are calculated on the basis of a common nationally, test receipt” , “said Dr SB Majumdar, founder and president director of the Symbiosis. Dr Majumdar was the head of the department of botany Fergusson College. Symbiosis He began in his home country in the promotion of the welfare, education and hospitality for the Indian students and foreigners.

Symbiosis Currently, 23 institutions and 112 courses. He has the strength of 30 students, 000, with a large number of them from northern India and the Third World countries. Independently also offers a Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning, where nearly 45, 000 NRI and Indian students, as well as professionals have enrolled.

Call-Center-Training

Aptech Computer Education, the students, their call centers from the specialization of organizations throughout the country. The ACPG Call Center, of course, areas of specialization and enable students to complete a career with the customers.

Mr. V. Balasubramanian, Executive Director Global IT & Sons, Aptech, said: “Aptech to ongoing efforts to research and development will enable students to travel in time to the computer industry relevant curriculum for the improvement of qualifications, which are relevant for students, new era for career opportunities. Call Tech, launched focuses on the call centre sector, and has been a great success. Our students were the main organizations such as GE Capital, Wipro, Spectra Mind, Daksh, Rena Sonic Airtel - Grey Cell, exl transport services Soft Mapro, First Customer Services Pvt Ltd ACPG Milestones for call centers is the latest plan to upgrade teaching, the students gather the available data, employment in the ITES segment. ”

Aniruddha Limaye Mr Vice-president, human resources and training, Daksh, said: “Education is an integral and very important industry intensive human resources. It is, first, because the industry is so new and dynamic. How to cope with the challenge us Improving systems of recruitment and training, it is educational and training institutions Aptech, which encourage us to support the talent of entry on the 1st level, general education. We believe that this was actually ground support requirements of the recruitment process. “