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Indian education sector needs to prepare itself for AI-driven future

The second of a three-part series reports on how education institutes are addressing the skills shortage

IISER IAT 2024: Result declared on official website at iiseradmission.in

The IISER has announced the IISER IAT 2024 results on the official website at iiseradmission.in. By logging in with their registration number and date of birth, candidates can view their scores

India losing edge in higher education, 33 institutions' ranking dips: CWUR

95% of Chinese universities ranked better than last year. Heavy investment in research and development showing results as Chinese universities challenging their Western counterparts

IIM Indore student gets Rs 1 cr salary package from e-commerce company

An e-commerce company has offered an annual salary of Rs 1 crore to a student of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, an official said Tuesday. This is the highest annual package offered during the final placement round of this session at IIM-I, the official said. "One of our students has bagged the highest salary package of Rs 1 crore during the final placement period of this session. This student has been offered a job in the sales and marketing department by a company in the e-commerce industry. The offer is for domestic placement," the official said. Against the backdrop of "a cooling job market", the season culminated with more than 150 recruiters extending offers to 594 students of the two-year Post Graduate Programme (PGP) and five-year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM), the official said, adding that this reflects the industry's unwavering trust in the institute and its students. The statistics for this year consisted of the average CTC (cost to company)

PM Narendra Modi to unveil projects worth Rs 68,400 crore in Odisha

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Odisha on Saturday afternoon to unveil projects worth Rs 68,400 crore in the state, including the new campus of IIM-Sambalpur, officials said. The prime minister will reach the Jharsuguda airport around 1 pm, and head to the IIM-Sambalpur campus where CM Naveen Patnaik, Governor Raghubar Das and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will join him, they said. Besides the Rs 400-crore campus, Modi will also unveil infrastructure projects worth Rs 68,000 crore. These projects span sectors such as power, roads and railways. Modi will address a public meeting at Remed Ground around 3 pm, before leaving for Guwahati, officials said. Stringent security arrangements have been made for the PM's visit, they said.

Govt draft guidelines to bar misleading ads by coaching institutes

Institutes cannot claim 100% placement for students, say guidelines

ICAI CA Result November 2023: CA Inter, Final result announced today

ICAI has released the CA Inter and Final results today. Candidates can check their results on the official website, i.e., icai.org or icai.nic.in

Students get placement jitters as IT majors slow down campus hiring

Most of the big-ticket IT players are loath to recruit from Tier-2 and Tier-3 institutes

IIT JAM 2024 registration begins today at jam.iitm.ac.in; all details here

IIT JAM 2024 registration started on September 5, 2023. Applications are available at jam.iitm.ac.in. Today, IIT Madras will begin the application process

Command and control

Changes in the law will affect IIMs' autonomy

Govt approves renaming of national institute on water after SP Mookerjee

The National Centre for Drinking Water, Sanitation and Quality in Kolkata has been renamed as Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institution of Water and Sanitation, the government announced on Wednesday. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gave ex-post facto approval to the proposal to rename the institute set up on 8.72 acres of land in Joka, Diamond Harbour Road, Kolkata. The prime minister inaugurated the institute last month. It is envisaged as a premier institute to develop capacities in states and Union territories in the field of public health engineering, drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene through training programmes. Such capacities are envisaged for not only the frontline workforce engaged in implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission and the Jal Jeevan Mission, but also for the representatives of local bodies, both rural and urban, an official statement said. Accordingly, suitable infrastructure has been developed, including

IIT Madras testing plan for hyperloop parallel to Chennai-Bengaluru route

IIT Madras has demonstrated contactless propulsion and braking for the project, and will be ready technology-wise by July 2023

Tech firm Astrome takes high-speed internet to India's hinterlands

IISc-backed Astrome has deployed India's first indigenous technology to facilitate rural 4G and 5G connectivity for the BharatNet Project.

Veranda Learning unit to acquire JK Shah Classes for Rs 337.82 cr

J K Shah trains chartered accountancy, company secretary and cost accountant aspirants

IIM CAT 2022 application correction window open till today, check details

Common Admission Test or CAT is mandatory for admission to various Post Graduate and Fellow/Doctorate programmes of IIMs. It will be conducted in test centres spread across nearly 150 cities

How Eduvacancy is changing the way institutes hire teachers in India

The firm's SaaS-based platform has over 500,000 registered educators and 12,750 institutes pan India and matches the right candidate for the right job across regions

513 students get 662 offers at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

The Lateral and Final Placements for the PGP and PGPBA Class of 2020-22 of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) saw 662 offers, leading to all 513 students who appeared for placements being placed. Harsh Agrawal, Placement Representative, said: "Overall, there has been a 37 per cent increase in the number of offers YoY, driven primarily by Consulting and Product Management roles. Strategy Consulting continued to be the most sought-after role among the students, followed by Product Management and Finance. Consulting companies made 248 offers led by Accenture with 51 offers, followed by Boston Consulting Group with 30 offers, an IIMB statement said on Wednesday. Top recruiters included Kearney (27), Bain & Company (26) and McKinsey & Company (22). Prominent recruiters in the Information Technology and Product Management domain, who made 141 offers, are Microsoft (15) and OYO (11). The 65 offers made in the E-commerce space included Amazon (37) and Paytm ...

Collaboration between industry, institutions strengthening in India: PM

The collaboration between industry and institutions is being strengthened in India, said PM Modi on Monday while adding that the country is among the top 50 countries in global innovation ranking

NIT Karnataka recruitment: Apply for 137 non-teaching jobs; know details

NIT Karnataka non-teaching post jobs: Candidates can apply online directly from the official website (recruit.nitk.ac.in)

Student engagement, job outcome put ISB, IIM-C in global honours list

Only these two institutes from India made it to the THE-WSJ list this year