‘Pvt Varsities Gave Only 29 of 254 Seats’

‘Pvt Varsities Gave Only 29 of 254 Seats’

Deemed medical universities have brazenly violated their agreements with the State government by surrendering only 29 post-graduate (PG) medical seats against the required 254 seats, PG students have alleged. A day after moving the high court, a group of PG medical seat aspirants provided data at a press conference to show how even the government […]

Bangalore city colleges present their manifesto to Lok Sabha candidates

Bangalore city colleges present their manifesto to Lok Sabha candidates

To the busy netas, who are campaigning to win the Lok Sabha election seats, students of 50 city-based colleges have presented a manifesto here on Tuesday. Students have urged all the parties to agree to setup fast track courts for speedy trial related to violence against women and to install CCTVs with night vision facility […]

Graduation Day at Army Institute of Fashion and Design held today

Graduation Day at Army Institute of Fashion and Design held today

The Army Institute of Fashion and Design (AIFD) held its Graduation Day and annual fashion show “Design Dapple 2014” at the Madras Engineer Group and Centre Auditorium in Bangalore on Friday. Lieutenant General Jagbir Singh, General Officer Commanding of Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala Area was the Chief Guest and Shri Ashish Kumar, CEO, […]

MVJ College of Engineering organizes daylong workshop

MVJ College of Engineering organizes daylong workshop

The ECE department of MVJ College of Engineering organized a one-day workshop on “Industrial Aspects of a Chip Design on a Linux Platform” at the VLSI lab, MVJ Campus recently. The event was marked by the presence of the Principal of MVJCE, Shanmukharadhya and Vice-Principal Gayathri N. The workshop started with E Krishna Kumar, HoD […]

INDIAN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION: SOME ISSUES – OPED

INDIAN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION: SOME ISSUES – OPED

Recently, the interest towards management education in India has declined. The Indian management education market has become highly commercial with a problem of plenty where educational institutions have become more and students have become less. Is it due to dearth of career opportunities after doing MBA or lack of charm towards management education (MBA) or […]

Educational loan for medical courses provided by top 5 banks

Educational loan for medical courses provided by top 5 banks

Educational is no longer all about merit and performance. Parents should have their pockets full to help their lads to receive education from the best institutes. However, when education has become pricey, recession too have hit middle class household. Education loan offered by banks has come to rescue hence. Bandhan Financial Services, has become the […]

HC Seeks Reply on Seat-sharing

HC Seeks Reply on Seat-sharing

The High Court on Thursday asked the State government to file an affidavit on what action has been initiated against the COMED-K, deemed universities and the Karnataka Religious and Linguistic Minority Professional Colleges Association. The issue relates to admitting students to the Doctor of Medicine course only through management quota and not under government quota. […]

‘Medical Education Should Involve More Research’

‘Medical Education Should Involve More Research’

Medical education today needs to be more research and publication-centric, said former vice-chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) Dr Chandrasekhar Shetty. He was speaking at a programme for officers of the National Service Scheme on tackling the burden of non-communicable diseases through the ‘Common Risk Factor Approach’. Dr Shetty said there isn’t […]

Retain mess subsidy, say protesting IISc. students

Retain mess subsidy, say protesting IISc. students

A proposal to scrap institutional subsidy to canteens and messes at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) has students worried that this would severely effect their limited scholarships and stipends. Hundreds of students protested at the campus on Thursday. In a memorandum submitted to the IISc director, students said: “On an average, 20 to 60 […]

BMS students win TCS Tech Bytes

BMS students win TCS Tech Bytes

Six finalists battled it out in the State finals of the fifth edition of the engineering IT quiz – TCS Tech Bytes – which was held on Thursday with the aim of enhancing awareness among students. The quiz is conducted by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and the Board for IT Education Standards (BITES), an autonomous […]