Institute of Marketing and Management (IMM)

Institute of Marketing and Management (IMM)

Marketing Tower, B-11, Tara Crescent,

Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi

Phone-No: +91 - 11 - 26520892-6, 26520900

Email: Immnd@nda.vsnl.net.in ;

Website: immnd@nda.vsnl.net.in

Following are the courses:

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) (Full Time)/Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) (Finance) (Full Time)/Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) (Entrepreneurship) (Part Time)/Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) (Marketing) (Part Time)

Eligibility: 50% in Bachelor's degree in 10+2+3 System as recognized in India. Candidates appearing in the final year exams may also apply.

Students can contact University and visit University's website at www.immindia.com

Panjab University degrees to carry students' photos

Chandigarh: Panjab University will publish photographs of students on detailed mark sheets and degrees to avoid discrepancies and tampering of results, an official said here on Monday.

'This initiative would streamline our system and would bring more transparency in the result procedure. With the printing of student's photograph, there would be no chance of misusing these documents by any miscreant,' Panjab University Vice Chancellor R.C. Sobti said.

The decision has been taken in the wake of a recent incident in which an employee of the varsity was caught interfering in the revaluation results of two students.

'To make our system more foolproof, special logos will also be attached to the result sheets to maintain their authenticity,' he added.

This decision would be implemented at Panjab University and in all 188 colleges affiliated to this university. Around 250,000 students are studying in these colleges.

Panjab University is one of the oldest universities of the country and was established in 1882. There are over 10,000 students in the university campus here and girls form the majority - nearly 70 percent - of total students. IANS

Australia announces new visa measures for intl students

New Delhi: The Australian Government has announced the introduction of new measures to assist overseas students affected by the closure of an international education provider.

The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, said that from January 1, 2010, overseas students who require a new visa to complete their studies at another school or college will be exempt from paying the A$540 (approx. 22,447 INR) student visa application charge.

Senator Evans said that although most students will be able to complete their studies on their existing student visa, some may need to enrol in a new course that finishes after their existing student visa expires and will require a new visa.

Twelve education providers have closed in 2009, affecting about 4,700 students.

"In situations where an education provider can no longer offer a course, the Government's primary concern is the welfare of the student", Senator Evans said.

"We understand that these situations are not the fault of the student and the introduction of a fee exemption will ensure they are not shouldered with an additional financial burden", Evans added.

In the interim, students will be able to apply to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship for a refund of their visa application fee if they've been affected by the closure of an education provider in 2009 and have had to apply for a new student visa.

Evans said the government is also increasing the minimum financial requirements for overseas students to ensure they can meet their living costs while in Australia.

From 1 January 2010, prospective overseas students will need to demonstrate that they have access to at least A$18 000 (approx. 7,48,000 INR) a year to fund their living costs in Australia, instead of the current A$12 000 (approx. 4,98,000 INR).

The new figure better reflects student costs in Australia and is consistent with information published for international students in Australian Education International's (the international arm of DEEWR) 'Study in Australia' guide.

Living costs are one component of the financial requirements for a student visa. Students must also have sufficient funds for tuition fees, travel costs and costs of any dependents.

"It is important that students understand these financial requirements are only the minimum amount required for a student visa", Evans further said.

"International students can supplement their income through part-time work in Australia but the primary purpose of a student visa is to study and students should not rely on part-time work to meet their expenses".

"Prospective students are encouraged to conduct their own research so they can make an informed decision about what study in Australia will cost".

DIAC will also make an assessment of whether the funds demonstrated by students will be available to them while they are in Australia.

"The Australian Government values international students and is determined to make sure they have a rewarding and successful study experience in Australia, without financial hardship", Senator Evans said.

The latest measures will be implemented through regulation change later this month subject to approval by Parliament and the Governor-General.

The changes will support the enhanced integrity measures for the student visa program announced in August this year. Those measures included:

• Upgrading the interview program to build a strong evidence base around fraud

• Removing or restricting eVisa access for some agents where there is evidence of fraud or inactivity

• Restricting access to eVisa for some segments of the caseload if analysis demonstrates restricted access would allow for better control of fraud.

The measures target parts of the student visa caseload in India, Mauritius, Nepal, Brazil, Zimbabwe and Pakistan.

Since these enhanced integrity measures were introduced, there has been an increase in the number of applications being withdrawn, from five per cent in July to 17 per cent in September and to date, more than 150 agents have had their eVisa access suspended due to evidence of fraud or inactivity.

Soruce:http://www.indiaedunews.net/International/Australia_announces_new_visa_measures_for_intl_students_9463/

IGNOU admissions go online

School of Social Sciences
New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University's (IGNOU) School of Social Sciences (SOSS) has announced online admissions for its Post Graduate Diploma in Participatory Management of Displacement, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (PGDMRR) even though it faced a faux pas during an online examination recently.

The basic aim of the course is to provide the learners to contextualize development caused by displacement and rehabilitation and strategize participatory planning of resettlement and rehabilitation.

The course is especially meant for learners who have a knack for the resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) sector. It also is equally valid for those planning to shape their career in the NGO sector.

The course is based upon sharpening the skills of the professionals in general, resettlement and rehabilitation officers, field, and desk staff as well as technical experts, in particular.

The programme is a proactive approach of the World Bank and IGNOU. The admissions are available on http://www.ignouonline.ac.in/pgdmrr for January 2010 session.

The programme's duration is one year and can be maximum completed until two years. The last date to submit the application is November 16, 2009.

MoU with Bihar government was approved - IGNOU

Indira Gandhi National Open University
New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on Friday clarified that an MoU signed with the Bihar government on training teachers and government officers was approved by the varsity's board of management and the state cabinet.

A day earlier a news report alleged that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) had asked the human resource development (HRD) ministry to probe corruption charges against IGNOU vice chancellor V.N. Rajashekharan Pillai.

The report states that according to documents forwarded by CVC to the ministry, a contract worth Rs.4 billion for an MoU signed between IGNOU and the Bihar government for project Samarth which involved training of teachers and government officials, was given without a "transparent bid process".

However IGNOU refuted the charge saying: "The collaboration between IGNOU and the Bihar government has been unanimously approved by the University's Board of Management in its meeting held on Nov 19, 2008. IGNOU has had an ongoing collaboration with the Bihar government for many years and the University has the maximum number of learners from this state."

"Under this project, IGNOU has been chosen as the knowledge partner of Bihar state," an official statement said.

As per the statement IGNOU shall establish training centers at 400 locations in the state equipped with computer labs.

"The project was finally approved by the full cabinet of Bihar as a sponsored project of IGNOU. The MoU was also approved by the Bihar cabinet and then placed before IGNOU's Finance committee and approved," the statement added.

On Oct 17, 2008, Pillai signed the MOU in the presence of the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and seven other ministers, IGNOU said. IANS

CBSE ready to go international next year

New Delhi:
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is all set to touch foreign shores from the next academic year as the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry recently gave its nod to the former's germane idea.

An international school board, set on the lines of the UK-based IGCSE, affiliated to the University of Cambridge and Geneva based International Baccalaureate (IB) will be launched by the CBSE from next year.

The CBSE International, keeping in mind the regional aspirations will design the curriculum in flexi-mode.

"Akin to the overseas schools, which get affiliated to the IB or Cambridge, CBSE too plans to go as an international board so that the same status is acquired. Although the CBSE marks its presence abroad by catering to the Indian Diaspora mainly headed by the Non Resident Indians (NRIs) but our plan is to spread across the world. In order to bring CBSE to a recognized international institution status, it is necessary for us to be affiliated to a sizeable number of countries which will benefit both the countries," said a highly placed source with the CBSE.

Out of 10,000 schools affiliated to the CBSE, almost 125 of them function in Gulf countries. Highlighting its long-established strengths in Science and Mathematics, the CBSE International will be publicized as a worthy option to invest.

"Though the HRD ministry and CBSE are working in tandem to enumerate the syllabus for the foreign nationals, the syllabus for Science, Mathematics and English would hardly require any change but the syllabus for Social Studies would definitely require shifting its focus from Indian history, geography, art and culture," sources added.

A committee comprising of the CBSE officials, principals and academics are working on the syllabus for Social Studies to offer topics, which are more relevant to the students.

The module will offer subjects ranging from Indian history to American and European history as well as International history. Other contextual and language based subjects are also to be taken care of by the members.

"By the end of this November, the CBSE should be ready with its international curriculum to rollout the board for affiliations abroad," the sources added.

Source:http://www.indiaedunews.net

UGC announces common entrance test for deemed varsities

University Grants Commission
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued directives to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to conduct admissions in the deemed universities on the basis of an entrance exam while the admission fees should be regulated according to the proposal setup by the fee fixation panels.

Last year, the UGC had set up a committee under Pondicherry University Vice Chancellor Prof. J.A.K. Tareen to examine the admission process and fee structure in the institutes which were under UGC's lens to acquire the deemed status.

The changes recommended by the committee has been accepted by both UGC and HRD Ministry's review committee, comprising of four members, set up under the reign of HRD Minister Mr. Kapil Sibal to study the functioning of all 127 deemed universities in the country.

"Admissions and high fees are two major accusations against the deemed universities. At least for medical and engineering programmes, the UGC committee is in favor of conducting an all-India based entrance exam for admissions while the deemed universities can conduct their entrance exams individually. The basic idea is to increase the transparency in the admission process," said an official.

However, adding on to his comment he also cited that, "It has been recommended that the fees should be pre-determined either by a national- or a state-level fee fixation committee."

Improvisation in the admission procedures too falls in the recommendation of Ministry's review committee report that has although finished its work but its details are yet to be public. It has also advocated to taper the difference of fees in government-aided institutes and deemed universities.

The HRD committee, while pointing out the shortcomings of the deemed universities, commented that around 127 of them are not par with their quality of education and faculty and needs upgradation in a big way in order to hold on to their deemed status.

Unlike the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) and Prof. Yashpal Committee's advisory on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education to scrap the 'deemed to be university' system altogether, the HRD committee has advised to focus "less on business and more on academics."

Apart from the Tareen committee, the UGC, which is also conducting the inspection on the deemed universities, has been less critical of the situation.

Submitting its report to the ministry for 70-odd universities, it has found it lacking on the compliance issues.

Source;http://www.indiaedunews.net/Universities/UGC_announces_common_entrance_test_for_deemed_varsities_9415/

IGNOU in Tamil Nadu up with degree course in law

Nagercoil
Nagercoil (Tamil Nadu): Now there will be new lawyers and doctors soon emerging from Nagercoil as the Regional Director of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), B. Sukumar has announced the introduction of a degree course in law and plans to include Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S) as one of the academic programmes.

Sukumar recently said that, "Discussions with the apex body of Bar Council in New Delhi to offer B.L. for the benefit of poor students are going on."

Since, Kanyakumari district has now come under Thiruvananthapuram region for administrative reasons so, the candidates should re-send their application forms to the regional office at Chekkalamukku in Thiruvananthapuram.

This region includes 43 study centres with more than 5000 registered students.

In order to encourage students to pursue higher education the aim of the region was to enroll 2000 students every year. With the Kanyakumari district also included in the Thiruvananthapuram region, new courses of study will soon be offered to the students in various colleges.

"Various regular study centres have introduced dual degree system and it has brought in a good response," said an IGNOU official.

HCL, BIM sign MoU for MBA programme

Chennai: The Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM) is all set to launch its new elective course on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as part of its Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programme in collaboration with the computer major Hindustan Computer Limited (HCL) Technologies on the basis of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed recently.

HCL will provide the syllabus and guidelines for the course and has access to Microsoft Dynamics ERP license programme as well.

HCL employees will train BIM staff through a Faculty Enablement Programme and provide lectures to its students.

"Management education becomes worthless unless the students and faculty understand the requirement of an industry," said BIM director M. Sankaran.

"This specialized training will reduce the internship period of new recruits from nine months to one month," said B. Ravishankar, senior vice-president of Organisation Development and Effectiveness.

According to the MoU, HCL has the foremost choice to hire students under this elective course.

"Such an initiative will provide us with ready-made employees. It will also help students to interact with the real work environment to get familiar with and will elevate them to specialize above the engineering graduates," he said, also adding that one-fifth of the ERP space is occupied by the software industry employees.

The second phase of the partnership will run into a collaborative research with students, to give them the opportunity to work upon projects creating new intellectual property.

Source:http://www.indiaedunews.net/Tamil_Nadu/HCL,_BIM_sign_MoU_for_MBA_programme_9427/

12 lakh new learners at IGNOU in 2010

Army Community Colleges,
New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Army for establishment of IGNOU-Army Community Colleges, which will lead to an exponential increase in its total student enrolment.

The student enrolment is expected to rise from 25 lakh in 2009 to 37 lakh in January 2010.

IGNOU's Vice-Chancellor, Professor V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai made the announcement in order to emulate the initiatives taken by the university to celebrate its silver jubilee year starting November 19.

Today, learners enrolled for the university range from as low as 18 years to as high as 90 years of age including school drop-outs, factory workers, farmers, prisoners in Tihar Jail, and sex workers.