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Can`t find a job? Study further, IIT-B tells grads
January 05, 2009:While graduates across the country grapple with the fear of employment doors being shut on them, those at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, have been given a window of opportunity to beat the placement blues brought on by recession.
The premier institute has offered BTech/dual degree (equivalent to master’s) students the option of taking up master’s or research degrees. This means students who have not got an attractive offer this placement season can continue to stay on the campus and add to their academic qualifications.
An email with the details and signed by the general secretary of academic affairs was sent to the students on Saturday. Though the institute claims the move is not linked to placements, the offer has come at a time when placements have been poor.
S Biswaas, dean of academic programmes, however, said, “Nothing has been chalked out yet. The BTech to dual degree option was always available. We have just decided to offer it in principle. Nothing is on paper. It is not connected with the placements season.” He said the dual degree to research option was a new initiative, offered with the aim of boosting research.
But a BTech student said the dual degree programme for BTech students was usually offered at the beginning of the third year. But this year, it is being offered at the end of the fourth year. “It definitely comes in the wake of poor campus placements,” he said.
But the email sent to students warns them against pursuing further studies only as a shield against the bad job climate. “Most probably next year’s placements will be as bad as or worse than this year’s,” the email said. “A student staying back for an extra year has a low probability of achieving what he couldn’t this year. Also, this may actually burden next year’s placements... So please do not use placements as a reason to postpone (sic) your stay here.”
Source:
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1218873
The premier institute has offered BTech/dual degree (equivalent to master’s) students the option of taking up master’s or research degrees. This means students who have not got an attractive offer this placement season can continue to stay on the campus and add to their academic qualifications.
An email with the details and signed by the general secretary of academic affairs was sent to the students on Saturday. Though the institute claims the move is not linked to placements, the offer has come at a time when placements have been poor.
S Biswaas, dean of academic programmes, however, said, “Nothing has been chalked out yet. The BTech to dual degree option was always available. We have just decided to offer it in principle. Nothing is on paper. It is not connected with the placements season.” He said the dual degree to research option was a new initiative, offered with the aim of boosting research.
But a BTech student said the dual degree programme for BTech students was usually offered at the beginning of the third year. But this year, it is being offered at the end of the fourth year. “It definitely comes in the wake of poor campus placements,” he said.
But the email sent to students warns them against pursuing further studies only as a shield against the bad job climate. “Most probably next year’s placements will be as bad as or worse than this year’s,” the email said. “A student staying back for an extra year has a low probability of achieving what he couldn’t this year. Also, this may actually burden next year’s placements... So please do not use placements as a reason to postpone (sic) your stay here.”
Source:
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1218873
