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The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), which are counted among the noted business schools in the country, have faced a budget cut this year with the Centre reducing their grant by half. The top institutes, however, believe that the move might hurt new IIMs but not the second or first generation IIMs. There are 20 IIMs across the country. In the budget for 2023-24 announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday, the funding for IIMs has been brought down to Rs 300 crore from the previous fiscal year’s Revised Estimate (RE) of Rs 608.23 crore, a 50.67 per cent drop, even when the net budget for the fiscal year 2023-24 rose by 8 per cent amounting to Rs 44,094 crores for the higher education sector. Read | IIT Madras to Receive Grant of Rs 242 Crore for Research on Lab Grown Diamonds According to the Budget Estimates (BE) for 2022-23, the IIMs were allocated an amount of Rs 653.92 crores. According to IIM Udaipur Director Ashok Banerjee, the … [Read more...] about Budget 2023: Grant for IIMs Reduced by Half, Top B Schools Say Centre Signalling to Be Self-reliant

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has released a list of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that are ready to be offered for the January semester of 2023. The MOOCs are currently available on the SWAYAM portal at swayam.gov.in. “The list of MOOCs, which are ready to be offered by UGC, CEC, llM-B, NPTEL, IGNOU on SWAYAM Platform for January Semester also be seen at SWAYAM Portal at - swayam.gov.in,” reads the notice. The list of MOOCs that are offered by the following National Coordinators includes the University Grants Commission (UGC), Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B), National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), and Indira Gandhi Open National University (IGNOU). The MOOCs are part of the country’s Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA). It aims to revive India as a major tourist and cultural destination for Buddhists. This also covers Buddhist history, Buddhist philosophy, Abhidhamma (Pali), and an … [Read more...] about UGC Releases List of MOOCs to be Offered by IIM Bangalore, IGNOU

BJP national president JP Nadda on Tuesday released the poll manifesto ‘Nagaland Vision Document 2023’ for the state assembly election in Kohima. He said that the northeastern state, which was once known for blockades and insurgency, has now turned into a path of peace, prosperity, and development. In his speech, Nadda said, “Five years ago, Northeast used to face blockades, insurgency, and targeted attacks. Today, Nagaland is back on the path of peace, prosperity, and development. Nagaland has been a story of growth. The insurgency has been reduced by 74 per cent in the last eight years and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is removed from 66 per cent of areas." “Election and voting are not meant to be decided on very flimsy grounds. It needs very serious deliberation to come to a conclusion about who should take up the reins of power," Nadda added. The BJP chief was on Tuesday accorded a warm welcome on his arrival at the Dimapur airport by Chief Minister Nephio Rio, … [Read more...] about Nagaland Elections 2023: BJP Releases Poll Manifesto, Says Govt to Set Up IIT, IIM | Details Here

The Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad is the only Indian institute to find a place in the top 50 of the Financial Times (FT) Global MBA Ranking 2023. The prestigious B-school has also been ranked 39th globally and sixth in Asia. The postgraduate courses offered by ISB have been adjudged the best in India. In the research category, ISB is ranked first in India and 61st globally. “ISB’s consistent ranking as the top B-School in India in the FT Global MBA ranking bears testimony to its constant endeavour to offer its students a research-backed curriculum and cutting edge pedagogy delivered by faculty who are thought leaders in their areas,” Deputy Dean-Academic Programmes Ramabhadran Thirumalai said. Further commenting on the ranking, he stated that it also points to how well our alumni are doing in their careers after graduating from the school. For this year’s ranking, alumni from the post-graduate program class of 2019 were surveyed on a multitude of criteria. The … [Read more...] about ISB Course Ranked India’s Best in FT Global MBA Ranking 2023

High societal expectations, academic performance, peer pressure, language barriers, increasing class sizes and no or little personal connect with faculty, higher caste-based reservations, lack of outreach by on-campus counsellors, coping up with rigorous schedules to adjusting to a completely new ecosystem — students do crack the entrance exam to the country’s premier tech institutes but find it tough to survive through the course, with some falling off the grid. The recent student suicides at IIT-Bombay and IIT-Madras have once again renewed the discussion around vulnerabilities of young people who crack the engineering entry-level exam to fulfill their dream of studying at an IIT but once in, some cut it short too soon. The issue is much larger and requires equally big interventions, said faculty members and experts on these campuses. The cases, facts and figures On February 12, Darshan Solanki, an 18-year-old chemical engineering student, jumped off the seventh floor of his … [Read more...] about Darshan Solanki, Stephen Sunny & Many More: Why Suicides by India’s Brightest Are Puncturing IIT Dream