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India’s leading B-school TAPMI, Jindal Global Business School JGBS and India’s No.1 Test Prep Portal TC Yonline.com have joined together to provide guidance to MBA aspirants appearing for entrance tests. Winners would get cash prizes upto Rs 10,000.They will conduct this entrance test to find out India’s future managers. More than 50,000 MBA aspirants are expected to participate in the MBA Wizard 2012 contest.

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It is dispiriting to say the least to learn that the share of GDP the UK spends on higher education has fallen to 1.2 percent.And this is while public expenditure on Universities elsewhere is expanding.The international profile of PG students at Oxford, he recalled that the university’s alumni with doctoral degrees included the Prime Minister of India.Competition for the most able graduate students is intensifying in what is increasingly a global market for talent.The international trend in this area, he said, was clear: China has a project to make two universities.In all China is aiming to create more than one hundred leading universities in the course of century.

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According to Indian Ambassador to the US, Nirupama Rao, ” India-US cooperation in the field of education is to day poised for major expansion “. She made this statement while addressing at the Yale University on the ” Future Direction in India-US relations “. She also added that the summit also would bring together academics and entrepreneurs.

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Global semiconductor company Texas Instruments joined hands with a local education services company Core education & Technologies to transform the science and technology education in Indian schools. The two companies have integrated their offerings under a STEMpower brand. They will improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The cost of setting up a basic STEMpower is estimated to be around Rs 500,000.

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The Interview will be conducted as a part for Commissionerate of Higher Education recruitment notification for October 2011. Commissionerate of Higher Education Gujarat recruits staff almost every year, current vacancies are for Assistant Professors posts.
All the eligible candidates need to apply for this post before 10/10/2011. Selected candidates will get placement in different universities of Ahmadabad, Rajkot, Patan, Surat, Bhavnagar, Vidhyanagar, Bhuj.

The total number of Posts are: 532 Posts
Name of Post: Adhyapak Sahayak ( Assistant Professors)
Pay Scale: Rs. 15600-39100/- with Rs. 6000/- as grade pay.
Qualifications: For this position, candidates should posses the degree of M.Phil in the relevant subject along with B1 level certificate of SCOPE and CCC certificate of computer literacy.

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STANFORD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Stanford University’s Center for Professional Development is extending to India a new blended learning approach for delivering project management education. Stanford Advanced Project Management in India launched in September and the first cohort roll-out will take place in December 2011.

Stanford’s Advanced Project Management certificate program provides executives and professionals with advanced tools and techniques to strategically execute projects, programs, and portfolios. The program in India will deliver courses in a blended learning mode—consisting of instructor-led sessions, online courses, live virtual sessions, and program end evaluation. Stanford has partnered with the Straxium Corporation, which has offices in India, to interface with participants and host the on-site lectures and virtual discussions. Participants will learn from and network with other professionals in India.

“Stanford is pleased to offer this program to India,” says Ray Levitt, professor of civil and environmental engineering and the academic director of Stanford Advanced Project Management. “This is an outstanding opportunity for professionals to get access to advanced education in the important disciplines of executing strategy, managing complex programs, leading change efforts, and improving organization performance.”

Participants will have the opportunity to further develop their current management skills while learning new methodologies all in a customized approach. “What can be more exciting for entrepreneurs and managers in India than learning from the renowned faculty of Stanford University?” says Bikram Gupta Sarma, CEO of Straxium and an alumnus of Stanford’s Advanced Project Management program. “This program will provide access for entrepreneurs and executives to the highest level of instructors and accomplish this in a flexible way.” Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will receive the credential of Stanford Certified Project Manager. Applicants can apply to the program online at www.straxium.com/SAPM.

About the Stanford Center for Professional Development

The Stanford Center for Professional Development connects working professionals worldwide to the research and teaching of Stanford University faculty in the School of Engineering and related academic departments. Qualified individuals may study for master of science degrees on a part-time basis, pursue graduate and professional certificates, take individual graduate and professional courses, and view free online seminars and more. Courses are delivered online, on the Stanford campus in the heart of the Silicon Valley, and at the work site.

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Knowledge management in education is the collection of processes that govern the creation, dissemination and utilization of knowledge. In one form or another, knowledge management has been around for a very long time. Practitioners have included philosophers, priests, teachers, politicians, scribes, Liberians etc., Knowledge management is not “A technology thing” or a “Computer thing” if we accept the premise that Knowledge management is concerned with the entire process of discovery and creation of knowledge then we are strongly driven to accept that Knowledge management is much more than a “Technology thing” and that elements of it exist in each of one Jobs. Knowledge management comprises a range of practices used by organizations to identify, create, represent and distribute knowledge. It has been an established discipline since 1995 with a body of university courses and both professional and academic journals dedicated to it. Knowledge management is frequently linked to the idea of the learning organization .Knowledge management refers to a range of practices used by organizations to identify the higher levels of innovations in education. The sharing of knowledge in industry, colleges , universities and, almost any institution in this country will make reference to the capturing of knowledge.

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The Australian Government has organized an education fair in India. It will show the quality, innovation and leadership of Australian education. More than half a million of foreign students study in Australia. Indian students enrolled in Australia are for academic programs on Business Management, Information Technology, engineering, science and hospitality. It also assists for a global career recognized in more than 21 countries. The education fair has a strong international reputation for excellence and quality education.

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The main name of the article is -India-US poised for major expansion in education: Rao.Washington: India-US cooperation in the field of education is poised for major expansion ahead of the next week’s major summit between the two countries on the issue.India-US cooperation in the field of education is today poised for major expansion,” Nirupama Rao, Indian Ambassador to the US said while addressing at the Yale University on “Future Direction in India-US relations”.“I understand Yale was the first US University to start teaching Sanskrit. Many eminent Indians and Indian-Americans have passed through its portals. Yale is today not only continuing its’ tradition of engagement but has strengthened it and extensively broadened it through the Yale India Initiative that was launched in 2008,” she said.“The India-US Strategic Dialogue initiated in 2009 identified five principal areas for expanding cooperation: strategic cooperation, energy and climate change; education and development, economy, trade and agriculture, science and technology, health and innovation,” Rao said.

“In India, we regard the US as our most important partner in our quest for social and economic development and we are working to expand our relations across the entire spectrum of our bilateral agenda, including in areas which I believe, are of importance to the US as well – areas such as trade and investment, science and technology, clean energy, health, higher education and agriculture,” Rao concluded.

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The main theme of the above mentioned link is distance education and its need in india the education system should be flexible and home schooling gurukal is the first home schooling sysytem in india and now it has been turning into distance education inn india there are many instutions which are providing the distance education system in our india disatnce education is becomming very popular in india why becuase in the mean while we can study and earn money through other works and the main information in the article is that courses like btech caniot be completed with mere theory the brief information is being populated in the website named as topaix .com

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