Campus Diary

BUSINESS EDUCATION

IIT DELHI
World Wise Web

Even as the celebrated IIT-Delhi alum Raghuram Rajan flags India's potential from Washington DC as an investment destination, the institute's powerful alumni association is holding a seminar this very evening "" 28 September, 2005 "" on the Knowledge Economy.

Sam Pitroda, chairman of the National Knowledge Commission, is the keynote speaker, but attendees also look foward to the words of Wipro's Azim Premji, Tata Sons' R. Gopalakrishnan, Infosys' Nandan Nilekani, CEO, Infosys, NIIT's Rajendra S Pawar and TechSpan/Headstrong's Arjun Malhotra, among others. Some of them are to hook up via satellite.

FMS DELHI
Sound of start-up music

Entrepreneurship ambition is rocking B-school campuses all over again. Delhi University's Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) has organised a business plan contest called the "National Entrepreneurship Challenge". The tagline: "Concept to creation."

Final judges would include AT Kearney's Vivek Gupta, E&Y's Kashinath Memani and the Union Government's chief economic advisor, Ashok Lahiri.

And there's lots of prize money to be won, courtesy Yes Bank. The contest is open to students of B-schools. But other DU students need not be left, Mick Jagger-like, drooling in the doorway. Students from some undergrad colleges would also be granted entry.

UNSW, SINGAPORE
It's a lion, mate

Singapore, having already staked claim to being Asia's centre of joint-venture education, is now inviting Indian students to come study at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) campus in this "lion city" (instead of Sydney, the original campus). To attract students, a promotional body called Singapore Education has embarked on a roadshow.

It is in Bangalore today, at the Le Meridien Hotel. It shall be in Mumbai on 1-2 October at Taj Lands End, and in Delhi on 3-4 October at the Intercontinental Eros. Several other institutes are part of the show, but UNSW-Singapore stands out for being "Singapore's first foreign private university".

IMI, NEW DELHI
Lifelong learning

Indian public sector managers are currently attending a program on "Global Leadership" at New Delhi's International Management Institute (IMI) conducted jointly with the Standing Conference of Public Enterprise (SCOPE).

Sathark Behuria, chairman of IOC and also SCOPE, urges "the need to create a global mindset among public sector managers" to face the challenge of "thinning boundaries" between global and domestic markets.

After the sessions, the participants will visit Paris, Brussels and Geneva for an institutional tour of Europe. IMI, of course, started in collaboration with IMI Geneva (now IMD Lausanne), is no stranger to the intellectual aspects of globalisation.