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Bribe …..What else can you call this
For this decision to be made, the students had to call a press meet and go on a strike. This is not something new with CUSAT, does it all the time. There is not a single examination with mistakes in question paper, or valuation. This has been happening from the day CUSAT was formed.
The students need not pay fees for revaluation. What a great way to escape...
February 29, 2008 by Kenney Jacob - Comments (29)
ICamp Bangalore
Post by – Kenney Jacob and Padma Sathyamurthy
LiveMint Coverage
Innovation need not be ground breaking
iCamp (23 February, Bangalore): Innovation Camp (iCamp) was held on Saturday in Bangalore. More than 80 people attended the day-long event, which was hosted by MindTree Consulting Ltd. The idea of the camp was to share individual experiences and opinions about innovation in different contexts in the unstructured way that...
February 28, 2008 by Kenney Jacob - Comments (0)
This is how good some of our teachers are…
Post by Jyothi M John
The following is a mail instruction sent to one of my very close friends, who is doing his final year MCA, by one of his lecturers (mind you this is one of the premier institution for education in Chennai, India, and from the information I received this lecturer has almost 13 years experience in education field. And this is a co-ed institution also):
Hi all third year StudentsYour first review schedule on...
February 26, 2008 by JMJ - Comments (1)
Whats there in management world equivalent to Open Source
Techies contribute to the community by opening up the technology details/code. More and more people use it/contribute to it and improve it. The technology gets better day by day as more and more people start contributing. Check out my view on this concept from by previous post – Standing on Shoulders of Giants.
Now whats there in the management world which is similar. How can management guys learn from the community and...
February 25, 2008 by Kenney Jacob - Comments (0)
How we celebrated Harthal
Yesterday was a Harthal. For my non Indian readers, Ill explain what a harthal is. It is a celebration, with is announced as a surprise mostly by the political parties in India. And this celebration is used as a means to acknowledge all the bad policies of the government by destroying some vehicles and buildings.
For most of the people its a holiday. Families stay at home enjoying the togetherness forced on them. Its an opportunity...
February 21, 2008 by Kenney Jacob - Comments (2)
The Unconference Virus – Knowledge or Networking
I am infected with the unconference virus. I am attending and conducting unconferences. And every announcement of a new unconference excites me, no matter whether its related to technology or not. My recent interest is in the Filmcamp.
The moment I got to know about FilmCamps, I went to their website and called up Sanjay Nambiar who organizes the event. I wanted to invite him to Kerala for conducting a camp in Kerala. But he has...
February 20, 2008 by Kenney Jacob - Comments (2)
BlogCamp In Kerala
“Blogcamp in Kerala !!!!!!!! Seriously. ”
This is the response I got from many when I talked to them about conducting a blogcamp in Kerala. Kerala, the Gods own Country produces the best people. But there is a small problem. None of them are here. They all go out of state and out of the country to work. No wonder the world is progressing very fast and we are slow to catch up. All our best brains are outside.. na.
We...
February 18, 2008 by Kenney Jacob - Comments (6)