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Thursday, Nov 10, 2005

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IIM Ahmedabad set for a new French connection

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) is all set for an all-new French connection. Easily the hub of the country's best management brains, the institute will soon offer a dual degree programme in collaboration with the Paris-based ESSEC Business School.

This Friday will see the president of the well known French business management school, Pierre Tapie, and the IIMA director, B. Dholakia, sign a memorandum of understanding for the official launch of the course.

Students of the ESSEC institute already have the advantage of choosing from at least 70 such student exchange programmes that the institute has. The institute's specialised Masters in Strategy Management of International Business is considered one of the more popular courses taken up by international students, with the institute's students ranking among the highest paid management professionals in France.

One of the first French Grande Ecole, the elite group of institutes that changed from the traditional MBA format to suit international standards, ESSEC was the first European business school to obtain accreditation from AASCSB international and is an EQUIS (the European hallmark of academic quality)-accredited institute.

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With the environment increasingly becoming a key area of concern for the country and an upcoming field of study, the Institute of Management Technology (IMT) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Henkel India Limited for establishing a centre for excellence in environment management.

An attempt to provide a platform for discussing issues relating to environment management in the Indian and global contexts, the centre will also aim at enhancing the concern for environment management among corporates and general awareness on environment sustainability among the public.

While Henkel and IMT will strategise and develop the centre, the faculty will contribute towards the development. In fact, Henkel is also planning to institute an award for the best student environment managers in the course offered by it to encourage greater initiatives. Apart from planning to launch a website on environment sustainability, the centre also plans to undertake environmental research.

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The Department of Surgery at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, will be hosting the 31st annual conference of the Uttar Pradesh State chapter of Association of Surgeons of India from November 11. The three-day event will see orations and presentation of research papers by faculty and delegates in a symposium on the diabetic foot.

As part of the conference, an audio-visual quiz competition will also be held among hospital residents. One of the salient features of the conference, according to the Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Prof. Amanullah Khan, will be a closed-circuit TV- assisted live workshop on laparoscopic surgery.

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The Ved Gupta Memorial Lecture this year will be by Jagmati Sangwan who will talk about ``Caste and the women's question''. The lecture will be delivered this coming Friday at the Arts Faculty of Delhi University at 2-30 p.m.

A founder-member of the Democratic Teachers' Front (DTF), Ved Gupta had passed away on December 13, 1996, and since then as a tribute to his academic and political activism, the DTF has been holding annual memorial lectures.

A teacher of physical education at the University College, Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Ms. Jagmati Sangwan has been a national level volleyball player representing India at the international level and is also the president of the Haryana State unit of the All-India Democratic Women's Association.

-- Lakshmi B. Ghosh

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