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For those looking for an exciting career in Information Management across the Industries and Knowledge Organizations.

Admissions are now open under Cycle 1 for a multidisciplinary M.Tech – 2010-2012 Programme in Information Systems and Management offered by the International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore in collaboration with some of the leading Information Schools across the globe - Dalhousie University, Canada; University of Michigan, USA; University of Pittsburgh, USA; Syracuse University, USA; International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore and Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore.
What do we offer?
• Cutting Edge Global Curriculum that imparts skill sets across the Information Management space – Databases to Data Mining to Data Analytics; Information Retrieval to Information Systems Design to Software Systems Management; Taxonomy, Ontologies and Semantic Web to Human Computer Interaction. Check out our syllabus for details.
• Unique opportunity to be mentored by Industry Leaders from Google, Yahoo, Intel and others through a path-breaking project - WikiGyan
• Truly international learning experience – with faculty drawn from our partner institutions. Course would be taught by world renowned experts from across the academia and industry
• Need based Bridge courses
• World class facilities – a brand new well appointed 24 x 7 accessible Wi-Fi enabled infrastructure in sylvan setting
• Internships and projects with leading industry partners
• Informal but rigorous pedagogy

Who is eligible?
• Engineering Graduates / 4-Year Degree Graduates (10+2+4) / Master’s Degree in any Discipline
• CAT / MAT / GATE / PGCET / State Level National Entrance Test Score


Important Dates for Cycle 1 Admission:
Application Deadline : March 31, 2010
Offer Decision : April 15, 2010
Acceptance Decision : May 1, 2010
Course Start Date : September 1, 2010

For application forms and more details contact us at:

International School of Information Management
University of Mysore, Manasagangotri
Mysore – 570 006
Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417
Mobile: Lohith - 9886772356
Fax: +91-821-2519209 I noticed in today's Dutch press that there were sit-ins at four Dutch universities yesterday about the same issue: Utrecht, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Nijmegen. Students are revolting again as in the 1970s.

I think that the crisis has been exacerbated by woolly thinking about university intake and funding.

Firstly, there are an enormously larger proportion of young people nowadays studying at university or "university", people eager to say to future employers that they've attended lectures in a building labelled "university".

Secondly, because of this larger number, the state has shifted the financial burden onto the students themselves (loans and part-time work in term-time) and their parents, who will always end up topping up where the students themselves can't cope. If you must go to university, without a few years off to earn money and see the world, you will end up either fragmenting the time you should be spending studying by doing menial jobs to make ends meet, or scrounging from your parents, or with a great big debt once you start work, paid off over decades.

And the universities themselves, owing to insecurity about the continuity of national funding, try to import as many rich Taiwanese and other foreign students to help fill the university coffers.

This is all cock-eyed. So I agree with Harry's last point.

I'd like to hear more from students themselves, living in whatever country, about their aspirations, certificates aimed at, employment prospects, and the financial plusses and minuses of study, whether at a respectable university or a Dothestudents-Paythroughthenose Academy.