The Supreme Court is today understood to have delivered interim relief to PDGM institutes from the controversial AICTE circular by allowing them the independence to conduct their own admissions and decide their own fees. The institutes can conduct their own group discussion and interview processes after shortlisting candidates using any one or more of the […]

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has done it again. A fresh salvo by the government body banning all part-time MBA courses has got concerned MBA colleges in ruffles. The ban which comes into effect from the next academic year has put a second spoke in admission to MBA courses this year. (The […]

Here is another case of technological innovation in educational admissions succumbing to problems of execution. Nearly 16.000 applicants to the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad’s PGDM program this year were required to appear for a computer-based video interview as the first step in the admission process. Termed ‘Virtual Interview’ by IMT, the innovation backfired […]

Big Brother All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)s controversial circular pressing for vast changes in the sphere of business education received a further setback yesterday with the Bombay High court squashing most parts of the circular. This comes after Orissa High Court stayed the same circular last week, when a group of b-schools from […]

The Orissa High Court has granted a stay on the recent All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) circular, which pressed for sweeping changes in the business education space. The AICTE notification dated December 28, 2010 had not only placed a cap on fees charged by AICTE-affiliated MBA colleges across the country, but also made […]

Looking back at the way many premier Indian b-schools have handled their admission processes this year, the MBA admission season of 2010-11 will not exactly be remembered as a season that people were fond of. From changing their admission criteria midway after selling application forms on a certain premise to using questionable methods of factoring […]

A classic error that judicial courts are prone to is one where the paranoia over not allowing criminals to be let off the hook results in a lot of innocent people being put to trial. Statisticians call this unintentionally increasing ‘type 1’ errors (false positives) in the pursuit of reducing ‘type 2’ errors (false negatives). […]

Big brother AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) has been given just eight days by b-schools to modify the notification it issued on December 28, 2010 (pushing for sweeping changes in business education) or else face legal action. The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) has decided to march up the steps of the […]

The new Indian Institutes of Management, (IIMs) namely IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak and IIM Raipur, along with IIM Trichy have planned a joint admission process this year. An initiative by IIM Ranchi’s director MJ Xavier, the gesture will see through common group discussions and personal interviews of around 3,000 successful CAT candidates. Pagalguy spoke to […]

Led by Dr. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram (G.K. Kalyanaram), a graduate of MIT Sloan School of Management and a well-recognized scholar and consultant, Amrita School of Business combines rigor and relevance in research and teaching. As graduates of Indian Institutes of Management, and prestigious Indian and US Universities including MIT, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University, […]