The Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship Development Society of IIT Roorkee celebrated ‘Entrepreneurs Day’ by showcasing finalists of its accelerator program in New Delhi on August 7 and was a culmination to the accelerator program ran by TIDES Business Incubator at IIT Roorkee for a period of 16 weeks. TIDES Accelerator Program (TAP) is collaborative initiative of Department of Science & …

IIM Udaipur, one of the highly ranked among newly IIMs established in 2011 and accredited from the AACSB has  made its 15-month PGPX diploma into a 12-month full-time residential MBA in Global Supply Chain Management. The program designed specifically for candidates with work experience of 3 years and above, comes with two options. The first option offers one entire semester …

The Indian team for WorldSkills International Competition 2019 scheduled to take place in Kazan, Russia from 22nd to 27th August 2019,  will leave for the Russian city this weekend and will participate in 44 skills including mobile robotics, prototype modelling, hairdressing, baking, confectionary & patisserie, welding, brick laying, car painting, floristry among others.  Referred to as the ‘Olympics for Skills’, the largest …

August 12 is designated as the International Youth Day and theme of this year, 2019, is ‘Transforming Education.’  Rooted in Goal 4 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development- to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all- International Youth Day 2019 is to examine how young people, youth focused organizations and other stakeholders are …

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) which regulates technical education in India in all its sincerity wanted to help management institutes in the country and help develop their faculty members. For this two schemes were made. One was Margdarshan (Guidance) under which a good reputed institute in an area could handhold those desirous of expertise or mentor support. It …

Of the 3100 institutes offering management education in India, about 460 are standalone self-financing colleges meaning these only teach management discipline and can only award diplomas. Now with the draft National Education Policy being discussed for an eventual roll out soon, the standalone institutes have started worrying about their existence as the proposed new policy only provides for three type …