Seven hundred seats in the medical colleges of the Philippines have been earmarked for students from other Asian countries, especially India and China.

It will cost an Indian student between Rs.1.2 million to Rs.1.5 million to study in a Philippine university. The amount will include visa fees, course fees and accommodation expenses.

The government of Philippines has set aside the seats and Indian service provider Health Care Management International (HCMI) will officially represent here the Philippine government’s Commission on Higher Education, which will offer the admissions.

“We are inviting students from India as we share a common language, English”, said Cecelia P Reyes, a Philippine government representative in an interaction here Thursday.

She said there are nearly 100,000 Korean students in Philippine colleges. “In a few years time, we hope to reach that number with Indian students”, she said.

Students who graduate from Philippine medical colleges will be given a certificate from the Medical Council of India so that they are able to practice in India, HCMI managing director Baljit Singh said.

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Info Edge (India) Ltd Launches Career Guidance Website-asknaukri.com
The First Website in India that Allows Users to Get Expert Opinion on their Work Life Queries

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Thursday, July 12, 2007 — (Business Wire India) — Info Edge (India) Ltd announced the launch of a new website asknaukri.com. The First website of its kind in the Indian online space, asknaukri.com aims to be the best possible credible source of information relating to career needs across the work life span of a user.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder & CEO, Naukri.com, said; “We have been leaders in the recruitment space and it is natural that we would want to own the user experience pre and post recruitment. Career guidance is a natural progression, and with asknaukri.com (as our first step) we want to emerge as the definitive face of career guidance in India.”

asknaukri.com has been launched as a free to use website, and it will provide calibrated counseling to all work related queries for its users which is relevant, researched, and customized, thus building upon the trust established by Naukri.com. Most users are constantly looking for advice on career related issues, asknaukri.com will fill a gap and act as a source of ratification and provide counseling on all related areas. A natural fit to Naukri.com, it allows users to submit their queries online, which are then directed to the panelists. The answers to the queries will be posted on the website within 48 hours, and an email will be sent to the user’s inbox. To make the exercise more comfortable, the queries have been categorized into relevant clusters like ‘Career Guidance’, ‘Interviews & Resumes’ and ‘Office Advice’ which are further classified in to relevant categories. Not only can the user ask a question of his choice but also read the hundreds of questions posted by other users in similar areas, thus ensuring that his overall knowledge of areas in which he has questions increases dramatically.

“Everyone has career and work related questions throughout their lives and are looking for advice they can trust. asknaukri.com will be the ideal destination to get credible free advice from experts. Career guidance and ‘work life issues’ is a huge unorganized industry and asknaukri.com is one small initiative from our end to create exponential value in the career guidance business in the long run” elaborated Apoorva Kumar- VP & National Head- Mobility, Ad Sales & Investments.

Soon asknaukri.com will also get mobile enabled and will allow users to ask questions from their mobile. Replies will be sent to the user on his mobile, email and also get posted on the website.

Richa Saklani, Aarti Anand and Sujata Kumra of ‘Workeasy Solutions’ are the expert panelists for asknaukri.com. With impeccable credentials both academically and professionally, alumni of IIM, Ahmedabad, Narsee Monjee and the University of Chicago, they bring to the table over 30 years of industry experience in Media, Banking, Human Resources, Financial Services & the outsourcing sector. The team of ‘Workeasy Solutions’ has worked with over 5,000 people across various ages in career planning, interview training, career transitions and corporate culture.

About Info Edge (India) Ltd

Info Edge (India) Ltd (NSE: NAUKRI) is one of the largest and fastest growing internet company in India. The company owns four portals which include Naukri.com – India’s No. 1 recruitment portal, Naukri Gulf.com — its recent foray into the middle east market, Jeevansathi.com – India’s fastest growing matrimonial site and 99acres.com – India’s No.1 real estate portal. Quadrangle, an executive search firm was acquired in the year 2000.

Info Edge was founded by Sanjeev Bikhchandani. The company has been on a fast track growth path. It has ventured in to newer businesses and territories and attracted investments from leading venture capitalists. Formerly an ICICI Ventures investee company, ‘Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures have invested in the company. Info Edge raised Rs. 1,703 million by way of an IPO in the month of November 2006.

Headquartered in Noida, (NCR), the company employs over 1200 people and operates through 48 offices in 31 cities in India and overseas office in Dubai catering to the Middle East market.

About Workeasy Solutions

Career planning and development firms, WorkEasy Solutions, help people of all ages build work-lives that they love and enjoy. Founded by alumni of IIM, Ahmedabad and Narsee Monjee in 2003, WorkEasy brings together over 30 years of experience in varied industries including Banking, Media, HR, Training, Financial Services & BPO. WorkEasy has worked with close to 5000 people training them in interviews, goal setting, career planning and corporate culture

- Business Wire India Press Release

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IBSAT® 2007, the Common Aptitude Test for the Programs of Icfai Business School (IBS) namely the 2-year MBA Program at all campuses and the 1-year Executive PG Program at Hyderabad.

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New Delhi, July 9 The Supreme Court Monday declined to stall the ongoing admissions to Tamil Nadu’s medical colleges, but agreed to examine a student’s petition that she might be denied admission in view of the state’s quota regime despite clearing an entrance exam.

A bench of Justices B.N. Agarwal and P.P. Naolekar refused to stay the ongoing counselling for admissions to medical colleges. It, however, said the final admission would be subject to the outcome of the hearing over S. Swathe’s petition.

The bench also issued notices to the Tamil Nadu government, besides the selection committee of the state’s Directorate of Medical Education and the Tamil Nadu Private Medical Colleges Association.

Swathe sought the court’s intervention to ensure a seat for her, fearing she might be denied admission to a private medical college despite being reasonably high in the merit list.

She pointed out that as per the state’s quota policy, the private medical colleges were forced to surrender 65 percent of their seats to the state government for admitting students belonging to the schedule castes, schedule tribes and other backward classes (OBCs).

Swathe said in July 2006 she had secured 177th rank out of the 350 aspirants declared successful in the common entrance examination of the state’s private medical colleges.

But soon after the declaration of the result, the private medical colleges surrendered 65 percent of their seats to the government, jeopardising her chances of getting admission, Swathe added.

She sought a direction to the state government not to force the private medical colleges to admit students of weaker sections of the society at the cost of students figuring in the merit list of the successful candidates in the entrance examination.

Source: Vakilno1.com

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