We earlier reported that several faculty posts in IITs may remain vacant due to the government-imposed reservations. Considering all IITs are woefully short-staffed on faculty, this is a welcome move!

IITs free to dereserve vacant faculty posts: Govt-India-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: In a big shift from its earlier stand, the HRD ministry has accepted the demand of IITs that reservations in faculty should not extend to lecturers. It has also agreed that caste quotas should be implemented across all streams.

Everyone has a favorite amongst Facebook, Myspace, Orkut and Hi5. We had to pick one: Facebook Is Not Only The World’s Largest Social Network, It Is Also The Fastest Growing

ITBHU/IITv alumni also happen to be amongst the fastest adapters of Facebook for comparative groups: our three-weeks old Facebook IITv group has over 200 members, whereas the largest Pan-IIT Facebook group is yet to cross the 600 mark.

Please join and share your ideas to enrich the social networking exprience for all!

Call it the Facebook World Tour. Even though Facebook is now the largest social network in the world,—with 132 million unique visitors in June—it is also still the fastest growing. (At least among the major social networks).

Quotas in the selection of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) faculty are unlikely to be implemented this academic year as these premier tech-schools want the government to reconsider the controversial proposal. All the 13 IITs, including the six new ones, have requested the human resource development (HRD) ministry for a “second thought� about implementing quotas for marginalised sections of society in the faculties.

IIT-Madras director M S Ananth calls it ‘‘criminal’’ to
take in students with cutoffs that are further relaxed. ‘‘These
students will suffer and so will their self-confidence,’’ he told TOI.

IITs to lower cut-offs, fill seats

MUMBAI: In the history of IITs, there has never been a second round of admissions. This year, though, vacant seats at all 13 IIT campuses, as also at IT-BHU and Indian School of Mines-Dhanbad, will be filled after a second list is soon put out.

A delightful academic development: IIT-B is evolving beyond the rigid norm for students to obtain only a single one-branch degree at a time, i.e. what they call a major in the US, and will now allow students to choose an additional expertise, a minor, from 17 options including management.

Get both engineering & management degrees from IIT-B-Mumbai-Cities-The Times of India

The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay has now decided to allow engineering aspirants to pursue management alongside. It's the first IIT to make such a change.

About 41% of the class of 2006 graduates from IIT-B took up managerial jobs, namely in finance and consultancy.

Patna IIT to start from August 6- Education-Careers-Indiatimes - Infotech

PATNA: It's official now. Bihar's dream of setting up an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is set to become a reality on Aug 6. Classes will begin from the next day.