379 IIM-A students get internship offers

With the fourth and final cluster for summer internship closing on Friday evening, the entire first year batch of 379 students at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) got placed with internship offers, an official said here. More than 20 companies conducted interviews in Cluster 4 held on Friday, which included Tata Steel, Aviva Insurance and Samsonite, according to an IIM-A release. The first cluster was held on November 11. Tata Steel made the highest number of offers for the Post-Graduate Diploma (PGP) summer placement for 2011-12, Prof Saral Mukherjee, Placement Chairperson, said. More than 115 recruiters visited the Institute to hire summer interns in four clusters this year, as against 102 last year. In accordance with the Indian Placement Reporting Standards (IPRS), the IIM-A will publish audited report for summer placements of PGP and PGP-AGM program.

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The Hindu : Opinion / Open Page : More colleges, less quality

Nearly one-third of the students enrolled in many of these private self-financing engineering colleges in Kerala end up never taking the university degree — they remain Bachelor divorced from Technology (for life).

B. Tech pass percentages fall sharply ( The Hindu, August 28, 2011) , with only 46 per cent of the candidates clearing the final year examination of the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, this year; last year, it was 56 per cent. It gives examples detailing how only three out of 67 students passed this year in an engineering college, whereas it was 12 out of 61 last year. To date, there are nearly 150 engineering colleges in the small State ofKerala(exact number cannot be arrived at any point of time, since the powers that be sanction a new engineering college almost every other day) out of which about a hundred are private self-financing colleges. Altogether, all these colleges offer nearly 60,000 seats in an year, out of which more than 10,000 fall vacant.

The Hindu : Opinion / Open Page : More colleges, less quality.