The Faculty of Management Studies at Delhi University recently conducted summer placements for its students. With 70 leading companies participating, a whole lot of choices were available to the students.
The highlight was a 400 per cent increase in the number of international offers made by companies. While many new international companies participated in this year’s process, Indian heavyweights also made a host of international offers to studen ts for a variety of roles overseas.
As many as 20 international offers were made to the students pursuing the two full-time programmes: 91 in MBA, and 42 in MBA-MS (Management of Services).
The financial sector continues to lure students in large numbers and as much as 17 per cent of the batch opted for profiles with leading banks.
“The summer internship programme at FMS provides students with an ideal platform to explore the various verticals and domains. We help them make the right decision by offering them plenty of choices with respect to both companies and profiles. The summer placements at FMS this year have broken all past records. The number of international offers by multi-national companies and Indian ones has increased manifold,” said the convener of placements, Madhu Vij.
The FMS Dean stated that the summer internship was the “nursery for the future business leaders to bloom”.
“The type of assignments that FMS interns are being offered by the cream of the corporate world is quite astounding and reflects great faith in the capabilities of our students,” he added.
Vimal Thorat, a reader in the Hindi Department at Indira Gandhi National Open University in New Delhi, has been appointed coordinator of the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Chair on Social Change and Development.
The broad objective of the Chair is to work towards dissemination of ideas and thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar in the areas of administration, Constitutional studies, human rights, religion and philosophy.
The Chair will also undertake research and development programmes in these areas and focus on developing appropriate methodologies to pave the way for Dr. Ambedkar’s ideas as policy instrument.
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, will be conducting a special workshop in December for middle and senior managers of corporate houses and government organisations on “Corporate social responsibility and sustainable business”.
This training will sensitise corporate managers to various issues of CSR and expose them to international developments in sustainable business management.
The workshop, to be held from December 18 to 20, will cover topics like Institutional Environment and Business, Concept of Sustainability: the new broad agenda, Dimensions of Sustainability, Business Ethics and Public private partnership.
The J K group of companies is the latest among corporate houses venturing into academics with the setting up of a Rs.45-crore B-school at Gurgaon.
The institution will initially take up MBA programmes and later expand to other areas like marketing, finance, information technology and international business.
It will also include short-term courses in diverse areas like logistics and supply chain, marketing of financial services, rural marketing, mall management, distribution and sales and brand management.
The wi-fi-enabled campus would also include a state-of-the-art library, computer centre, an auditorium and hostels for boys and girls.
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