Mostly job oriented programs at Fakirmohan University: Dharitri
New Indian Express also reports on this.
2 comments September 12th, 2007
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Some numbers related to IIT Kharagpur : a reference point to NISER
Update on April 14, 2008: IIM Kozhikode has a faculty of 17 against the sanctioned strength of 40 members, IIM Calcutta has 70 against a sanctioned strength of 88; IIM Bangalore has 74 as against the sanctioned strength of 89.
Update on Oct 16, 2007: IIT Delhi has a sanctioned faculty of 583, with 130 vacancies.
Update on Oct 2, 2007: IIT Bombay has a faculty strength of 420, with 100 vacancies.
Frontline has a nice article on IIT Kharagpur. Following are some excerpts.
it has 19 departments, eight multidisciplinary centres and schools and 13 schools of excellence besides laboratories and central research facilities. It employs 1,600 employees, including 460 faculty members, and has 7,000 students on a sprawling, green campus of over 2,100 acres…
In comparison, according to various reports NISER (New Indian Express, Kalinga Times) would have 250 faculty, 2000 students, 761 employees and will be built in 300 acres with a project cost of 823.19 crores. Thus, in terms of faculty size and employee size it is envisaged to be about half the size of IIT Kharagpur.
Some information on IISER as was given in a recent PIB is as follows:
The Government of India has set up three Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), at Pune, Kolkata and Mohali. Two more IISERs are being set up at Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram. These Institutes have been/are being set up on th3 recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SAC-PM). The total estimated project cost of each IISER is Rs. 500.00 crores which includes Rs. 241.00 crores fro construction of building and other infrastructural facilities and Rs. 259.00 crores as recurring expenditure, spread over a period of 7 years.
2 comments September 12th, 2007
Admission announcement by TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences): ad in Samaja
2 comments September 12th, 2007
Outlook-Cfore business school rankings
Outlook has an article on it and its detailed ranking will be available later. However, MBAuniverse.com has published the ranking from 1-20 with its own analysis. The rankings are: IIMA, IIMB, IIMC, IIML, XLRI, MDI, SPJ, NITIE Mumbai, IIM I, NMIMS, IMT Ghaziabad, IIM K, IIFT Delhi, ICFAI, XIM, SJSOM, IMI Delhi, IRMA Anand, TA Pai, Symbiosis Pune. XIM Bhubaneswar’s ranking, as per Outlook-Cfore calculations, has gone up from 16 last year to 15 this year.
September 10th, 2007
More details on the NITER proposal
More details are emerging on the NITER proposal. It seems it is only an Orissa govt. proposal. So it is far away from happening. At this point Orissa govt. should focus on getting one of the new IITs and should pursue NITER only after it gets an IIT. Following is a report on this from Samaja. (New Indian Express also has a report on it.)
2 comments September 10th, 2007
A collocated NITER with NISER?
Following is from Pragativadi. (Thanks to Purna babu for the pointer.) I hope this news is true and not some gossip by a govt. official. If it is true, I hope it happens in addition to an IIT.
September 8th, 2007
Samaja elaborates on the 4 more govt. medical college proposal
The following appears in the front page of Samaja in the left hand side.
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September 8th, 2007
Orissa may have 4 more govt. medical colleges
Following is a news item on this from Sambada.
In this regard we would like to point out to our earlier article where we suggested that the Orissa government should consider converting some of its district hospitals to medical colleges. May be they listened.
In general, the district colleges that have close to 250 beds should all be converted to medical colleges and the government should recover some of the cost by charging the students half or 1/3rd of what private medical colleges charge.
September 8th, 2007
Stewart School in Cuttack to celebrate its 125th anniversary
Following are excerpts from a Telegraph report on this.
…On November 20, Orissa’s Stewart School gears up to celebrate its 125th year.
The institution, where Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose received six years of elementary education, is marking the occasion by asking former students to come forth and to share memories of the alma mater.
Through this exercise, principal Asha Margaret Das hopes to accumulate an school information archive. On November 20, a five-day celebration with a host of programmes is also expected to start.
So far, the school has started a special unit to receive messages from former pupils. “I am sure that former pupils from far and wide must have interesting anecdotes to share,” she said.
“If you have any stories related to the old higher-secondary school or any other information, we would love to hear from you. We believe that it’s important for former pupils to realise they are a part of a rich historical past,” Das said. “It is one of the oldest schools in Cuttack and the few that are older are so by 10, maybe 25 years.”
The school, which started in 1882, was re-christened Stewart School in 1919 after its founder William Day Stewart, a civil surgeon. Stewart School began as the Orphanage School in November 1882. Soon, it came to be known as Protestant European School (in 1891) and in the same year its doors opened to Indian students. Since 1971, the institution has been managed by Diocese of Cuttack, Church of North India. Until that time it was under the Baptist Missionary Society.
September 8th, 2007
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology in Raebareli
A PIB reports on the setting up of this institute at a cost of 435 crores and when set up this institute will have B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D programs and will get the status of an Institute of National Importance.
Considering the number of steel plants in Orissa, the Orissa government should at the opportune moment push to make BPNSI (Biju Patnaik National Steel Institute) of similar status.
42 comments September 7th, 2007
Newly AICTE approved Indus college of Engineering will take students through the upcoming Orissa JEE counseling: Ad in Samaja
5 comments September 7th, 2007
