Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) plans to expand the higher education system to areas that remain neglected for various reasons. It has now opened two classroom centres for its executive post graduate programmes; one in Jammu and the second in Kashmir. This initiative would provide an opportunity to enhance managerial and leadership skills for the locals who are forced to move to metro cities to pursue higher education. Opening these two centres will facilitate executives from J&K to acquire formal management education from a premier institution.

IIMB repositions PGSEM as PGPEM; now open to executives

The Post Graduate Programme for Software Enterprise Management (PGSEM), a weekend programme at IIM Bangalore (IIMB), has been repositioned as the Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM). The dynamic environment and the need for contemporary management practices triggered the repositioning of the PGSEM that was offered at IIMB for more than a decade.

BSE Institute and Ryerson announce BSEI-Ryerson Zone

An MoU has been signed between BSE Institute Ltd (BIL), Ryerson University and Ryerson Futures Inc (RFI) from Toronto, Canada. The document outlines a partnership to create BSEI-Ryerson Digital Media Zone, a new India-based incubator for entrepreneurs to fast-track their start-ups and connect with mentors, customers and investors. The collaboration between BIL, Ryerson and RFI lays the groundwork to help young entrepreneurs expand into both the Indian and Canadian markets.

Cargill announces first class of Cargill Global Scholars

Cargill and its executives have signed up to mentor and support select undergraduate students around the world as part of the Cargill Global Scholars programme. Fifty-six undergraduate college students including 10 Indian students were notified that their university experience will be transformed by becoming members of the first class of Cargill Global Scholars. Through this class, selected college students from Brazil, China, Russia, India and the US will receive funds to help cover their educational expenses.

Directi launches CodeChef for Indian school kids

With an aim to create a self-sustaining community of technology developers, the Directi Group, an internet products company, has launched an online programming platform titled CodeChef for Schools. It is an effort aimed to enable Indian students to excel at the International Olympiad of Informatics?one of the five academic Olympiads for high school students.

Educomp Raffles launches scholarship at JRE School

Educomp Raffles has announced a scholarship programme with a corpus of R2 crore for the new BTech batch students at the JRE School of Engineering, Delhi NCR. The programme is part of the CSR outreach of Educomp Raffles, and it aims to support students who have scored more than 80% marks in Class XII (PCM), with scholarships of up to R2.5 lakh per student. Educomp Raffles is a joint venture between Educomp Solutions and Raffles Education.

ERA Business School, New Delhi, holds its second convocation

Era Business School (EBS) organised its second convocation ceremony for the outgoing batch of 2011-13 at its Dwarka campus amidst prominent academicians, members of governing body, academic council, faculty, students and parents of the students. Dr P Rameshan, director, Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak, was the chief guest. Dr Sanjiv Marwah, director, EBS, reiterated the vision and mission of EBS, and the constant efforts to achieve the same.

NMIMS to consider additional ID proofs for NMAT 2014 registration

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) has announced that candidates now also have the option of presenting Voter ID card and Aadhaar card as identity proof for NMAT 2014, the entrance test for MBA 2014-16 batch of NMIMS? School of Business Management. The decision has been taken by the university owing to requests from a huge number of aspirants this year not having a passport or a PAN card, which was the requirement until now.

Schengen agreement for Indians to confirm Nantes as French Pune

The French Ambassador in India?s July 14 announcement of a five-year Schengen Visa for Indian students is set to help Audencia Nantes School of Management let higher education applicants in India in on a secret: the school believes the city of Nantes is now truly France?s version of Pune, the student-friendly destination. Ambassador Fran?ois Richier?s declaration that his country will award a five-year visa to Indian citizens who graduate from a French higher education institution adds to financial incentives to draw Indian students to Audencia and its city. Like Pune has grown to become India?s top city for higher education, Nantes has developed into a magnet for students. But Audencia feels not enough Indian students take advantage of this little-known opportunity and is looking to boost intakes.