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Goa Planning for Two Educational Estates

The Goa government has planned to build educational estates, one each in two districts. Both the estates would have different kinds of educational institutions, equipped with the facilities like hotels, malls and much more.
When contacted, Chairman of the Goa Education Development Corporation M K Shaikh, informed that the government has identified 40 Lakhs square metres […]

School textbooks to be available by June 5: Goa Board

The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has ensured that the textbooks for classes V and VIII — the two classes for which books pertaining to the NCERT syllabus would be introduced from this year — would be made available to the students by June 5 when the schools re-open in Goa.
The Board […]

Goa govt scraps proposal to allow private medical colleges

Goa government has decided to scrap its proposal to allow private medical colleges in the state.
“We have decided not to go ahead with the private medical colleges and in turn would like to strengthen government medical infrastructure,” state health minister Vishwajit Rane said.

Goa government had earlier mooted the proposal for private medical colleges across the […]

Finance conference held at GIM

“India has a trillion $ GDP, investment is 30 pc we have never faced these figures before. Finance is called upon to integrate these gigantic sums of money”. These words of Mr. Ajay Shah ex-Consultant, DEA, Ministry of Finance, at Samriddhi 07 summed up the objective of the conference conducted by Goa Institute of Management […]

IIM IN GOA

The Chief Minister of Goa has requested the Prime Minister for establishment of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Goa. The request would be considered as and when the Government of India initiates the process of setting up of new IIMs in the country.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development […]

GIM organises its Alumni Meet in Goa

Goa Institute of Management’s campus belonged to the alumni, as the institute organized its annual event of the ‘Grand Alumni Meet’. Although GIM Goa organizes alumni reunions in the major cities of the country yearly, but this one event is special as it takes place within the institute campus and alumni are invited to relive […]

Conference on Retention management held at Goa Institute Management

“How can bosses be made better bosses? A manager is not a blue-eyed, square jawed Frankenstein monster who works all the time. Better results can be achieved by managing the managers themselves.” With these strong words of Mr. Gopalkrishnan, Executive Director of Tata Sons, Castalia `07, a Goa Institute of Management`s student driven initiative commenced […]

Goa Targets March Deadline For Complete Broadband Connectivity

Goa could become the first Indian state to be fully connected through a high-bandwidth broadband network, according to this Mint article. Although that may sound like a major achievement, it just may not be considering Goa is India’s smallest state.
The government has tied up with Bangalore-based tech solutions company United Telecom Ltd for the project, […]

Goa University still infested with major problems!

It appears Goa University (GU) has miles to go before it can be counted among top most universities in the country. Founded in 1985 and located on Taleigao plateau, GU is still infested with major problems which apparently hurdle its academic progress.
Moreover, GU management has remained lethargic about its infrastructure management.The report of the Comptroller […]

Goa College of Art Students’ Council formation

Finding no respite, students of the Goa College of Art are all set to constitute a Students’ Council on Monday (tomorrow) in a bid to follow up vigorously the problems and issues irking the institution.Students state that the key role of the council will be to follow up with the Chief Minister Digambar Kamat the […]