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Thursday, Jun 09, 2005

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Resentment over pact on seat sharing formula

The agreement reached between the Government and the private professional college managements represented by COMED-K has not exactly been to the liking of the major students unions. The issue of contention is the seat matrix and the fee structure for medical and engineering courses.

The first students union to join the fray has been Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), which has opposed the 55:45 seat sharing formula. The State unit of the Parishad says that 55 per cent seats will be allotted to CET candidates and the rest is to be filled by the college managements and it may not get allotted on a merit basis. Other students unions are upset that the parents and students were not consulted in the issue.

The ABVP and other unions recall that the ratio till 2002 was 85:15 and could now be 75:25 if students with merit but not from wealthy families are to get seats. The fee structure too needs to be revised downwards, they say.

Management journal

A leading business school in Bangalore, the Institute of Finance and International Management (IFIM), located in Electronics City, has launched a management journal called Focus. The journal, which is targeted at readers beyond Indian shores, is aimed at facilitating effective sharing of information regarding various management issues and problem solving methodologies.

The potential readers are students, practising executives and academics, according to the institute, which has become one of the first management schools in India to publish a journal of this kind.

Olympiad Forum

Christ Junior College inaugurated the Olympiad Forum becoming the first in the city to provide formal training for Olympiad in various science subjects. B.N. Chandrika, Bangalore Chief Evaluator and Centre Coordinator for propagating the Olympiad, said such training helped develop analytical skills of students. As many as 250 who score the highest in this national examination are trained by the Homi Bhaba Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, to appear for the international event.

Inlaks scholarship

A National Law School of India University graduate, Arjun Krishnan, is one of 10 Inlaks scholars selected to study abroad this year. The scholarship instituted by Inlaks Trust is "committed to the mission of identifying and helping develop exceptional talent among young people" and has, in the past, awarded scholarships to writer Amitava Ghosh, journalist Barkha Dutt and lawyer Pinky Anand, among others.

The 23-year-old Krishnan will leave for Oxford to study law. With interests in intellectual property rights and competition law, Krishnan hopes to return to India for practice.

K. Satyamurty and
Hemangini Gupta

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