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IIT-Kharagpur to Co-host Empresario 2017

Posted on July 15, 2016 by team pojo

IIT Kharagpur and International Business Model Competition (IBMC) are all set to host Empresario 2017, an initiative by the Entrepreneurship Cell of the college. The cell is a student organization established with the aim of fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship among college students in India. It aims at developing upcoming start-ups into successful companies by conducting Empresario, India’s only global business model competition. It accepts business ideas in all fields including product and service, product…

Education Ministry Working on Scheme for Interest-Free Loans to IIT Students

Posted on July 15, 2016 by team pojo

The Education Ministry is working on a subvention scheme to help IIT students get interest-free loans so that they can pay their fees easily. Officials in the Prakash Javadekar-led ministry said while the fee for these institutes was hiked recently, the government also wants that students and their parents do not face any hardship. “The ministry has planned a subvention scheme which will ensure that the interest part on loans is taken care of by…

Need for Quality Education in Logistics Stressed

Posted on July 15, 2016 by team pojo

The world is witnessing a revolution wherein Logistics Technology is moving ahead of Information Technology, said Garry Jacobs, chairman and CEO of the World University Consortium. He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function organised for granting World University Consortium membership to Kochi-based Global Institute of Integral Management Studies (GIIMS) on Thursday. According to Garry, the modern world is all about ‘speed,’ which makes execution of jobs faster. That is where logistics…

ISBM Collaborates with Pearson Education

Posted on July 14, 2016 by team pojo

Indian School of Business Management and Administration (ISBM) has joined hands with British multinational publishing company Pearson Education. ISBM and Pearson will give the students access to their learning resources online. The content provided will include videos, powerpoint presentations and PDFs. Also, it will include mock tests and questionnaires. “ISBM and Pearson together will be committed to provide educational services in all available media spanning the learning curve from birth through university and beyond,” ISBM…

L&T Mutual Fund Launches Investor Education Initiative

Posted on July 14, 2016 by team pojo

L&T Mutual Fund has launched an investor education initiative, in collaboration with The Learning Curve Academy. The initiative titled ‘Finance GYM’ aims to reach out to around 1,500 students across some of the top colleges in Mumbai. The initiative aims to connect with students through various mediums such as an online simulation game, interactive in—classroom activities and physical collaterals for reference. Source: Business Line

‘Higher Education needs to be more Accessible’

Posted on July 14, 2016 by team pojo

“About 14 crore children are eligible for higher education in the country but only 3 crore have access to it. We have a serious shortage here,” G. Viswanathan, chancellor of VIT University, said. Speaking at the silver jubilee celebrations of M.O.P. Vaishnav College for Women on Wednesday, he said that though there has been a demand to allocate six per cent of the GDP for education, only four per cent has been given so far….

Accenture Ties up with IITs for Research into Artificial Intelligence

Posted on July 12, 2016 by team pojo

Accenture has entered into a joint research collaboration with IIT Bombay and IIT Patna focused on the different application aspects of Artificial Intelligence. The research, focused on IT services and social good, will look at augmenting software engineers with powerful Artificial Intelligence insights and recommendation for improved productivity. The focus areas of the program includes research in natural language processing, machine learning, neural network, virtual agents, deep learning and other areas of artificial intelligence. It…

Children’s Education: Parents taking to Debt Route

Posted on July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 by team pojo

For many parents in India, funding their child’s education is more important than contributing to their own retirement savings. A study by HSBC found that seven out of 10 parents were willing to go into debt to fund their children’s university education. About 65% parents in the survey said that paying for their child’s education made it more difficult to keep up with other financial commitments. Parents with a child at university or college were…

‘Top-ranked’ IIT Madras is Fifth Choice for JEE Toppers this Year

Posted on July 6, 2016 by team pojo

Flying in the face of a MHRD ranking of national engineering colleges that placed IIT Madras at the top, more than 60% of the top 1,000 rankers of JEE Advanced 2016 have chosen IIT Bombay, DELHI, Kanpur and Kharagpur. IIT Madras ranks at number 5 for the top rankers in the JEE Advanced with only 103 takers. Last year too, 103 students opted for IIT Madras among the top 1,000 rankers. The MHRD under its…

IIT-Kharagpur to set up Centre for Science of Happiness

Posted on July 6, 2016 by team pojo

The IIT-Kharagpur has said it will start a ‘centre for science of happiness’, which will not only help students embrace more happiness but also seek to further research in the field. An alumnus, Satinder Singh Rekhi, is helping in setting up the centre which has been named after him. The proposed ‘Rekhi centre for science of happiness’ will develop “happy technocrats”, said a statement issued by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur. Through…

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