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Patna University bid to introduce five-year courses

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PATNA: With two of its premier technical institutions having already been detached, Patna University (PU) is facing a crisis of sorts so far as its academic expansion is concerned.

Once, PU, the seventh oldest university of the Indian sub-continent, used to have academic jurisdiction over the institutions spread all over the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and even Nepal. But, with the passage of time, its jurisdiction was confined to just a few colleges and post-graduate departments located within the Patna Municipal Corporation area. Continue reading →

US colleges learn business mantra from Indian gurus like Soumitra Dutta, Pradeep K Khosla and Dipak C Jain

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NEW DELHI: When Soumitra Dutta was appointed as the Dean of Ivy League Cornell University earlier this month, he joined a small, influential and growing club of Indian-origin professors heading American business schools. Among them, five have risen to top jobs in the US management education circuit in the last four years.A year-and-a-half ago, Harvard Business School appointed Professor Nitin Nohria as its dean. Forty three-year-old Sunil Kumar took the dean’s chair at Chicago’s Booth School of Business, another top US B-school, early last year. And now, 48-year-old Dutta, from France’s top business school INSEAD, is at the helm at Cornell. Continue reading →