Second to IIT Chennai, Shibpur’s Bengal Engineering & Science University (Besu) will have a course in Automobile Engineering starting July next. When that happens, the 30-odd students who will study the 2-year postgraduate course will surely have a ready job market to be absorbed. Interestingly, this development is occurring at a time when auto major […]
Singapore calling Indian students
Until recently, low-budget tourists from India would prefer Singapore among the foreign shores they would like to visit. Not without reason. Singapore is not only a charming destination that can be seen at attractive prices, it’s a shopping paradise too. Singapore also lets you have a taste of life like it would be in a […]
CLEaRS – the virtual tutor
Learning Accord is a US-based company that offers interactive e-learning software, CLEaRS, for MCAT students in that country. Now it has launched a similar-named software for high school students in Kolkata. CLEaRS stands for Computerized Learning, Evaluation and Review System. Its utility lies in identifying knowledge gap in students so that they know where they […]
1500 new universities
Shortly after taking over as the head of UPA government at the center, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in June 2005 constituted the National Knowledge Commission (NKC for short), headed by Sam Pitroda. PM understood that the quality of education has to improve in our country. Above all, he knew to the core of his heart […]
Right to information
A bank official I frequently meet during morning walk often complains about deteriorating work standards. The telephone doesn’t work properly, the municipal corporation is full of touts, there is utter chaos in hospitals, greed for speed-money is at every level – his litany of complaints virtually has no end. Not that whatever he says is […]
75 years of Indian Statistical Institute
In the 20s of the last century, the premier institute of higher studies in the country, Kolkata’s Presidency College saw the founding of India’s first statistical laboratory at the hands of the famous mathematician Proshanto Chandra Mahalanobis. Poet Rabindranath Tagore was a great inspiration for the unique endeavor at Presidency College, which he used to […]
School of Intellectual Property Law
The name of the institute is Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law (RGSOIPL), named after the late PM of the country. Its first academic session has commenced in July 2006. RGSOIPL is the first is the first law school in India whose students will be able to practice as Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) attorneys. […]
Network for a dream job
Well, this networking is very much actual, not virtual like what I wrote in my last post. With me is a Roger Eglin article, Charm your way into a job, from UK’s The Sunday Times, in which he says to: Throw your tired old CV into the bin and network your way into a new […]
Jobs on platter
Infocom 2006, billed as the biggest IT exposition in the country ended yesterday at the Salt Lake Stadium. Besides Nasscom, the ABP group, through its arm Business World, has been the main sponsor of the 5-day event. IT (aka Information Technology) being the epitome of great Indian surge in global arena, Infocom 2006 expectedly drew […]
Studying law
When my neighbor’s daughter got admission in WB National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) early this year, it was a cause for celebration. She was happy to have made it to a good institute, and also for the reason – as she explained – that a BA/LLB from NUJS would be a sure ticket to […]
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