Many students from Asia look at the Eurozone crisis and become discouraged about studying in Europe, thinking that jobs will be hard to come by. However, these students could greatly boost their chances of working in Europe by learning the local language, says Ashok Som, associate dean of Global MBA at ESSEC Business School, France […]

XLRI Jamshedpur The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has inducted the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM C) and XLRI Jamshedpur as members. Students will stand to benefit indirectly from this move as member b-schools get better exposure to global practices. Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad, IIM Ahmedabad, S P Jain Institute of Management […]

Alongside accounting and organisational behaviour, business lessons at INSEAD begin with deep discussions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, religion in China and Enrons troubles with the Indian government at Dabhol. With over six dozen nationalities studying together in its classrooms, you can imagine how intense some of these huddles could become. In this new series covering […]

Photo Credit: thethreesisters When you are competing against thousands or rather lakhs of people for a few seats, every minute matters. These days, probably what you did in your class 10th, 12th and graduation matters more than most things – but hey, you cannot do anything about that until someone invents a time machine. Although […]

Photo courtesy: QuinnDombrowski The Common Admission Test admission rules are very clear. On the website, it clearly states that the percentages for both X and XII have to be calculated taking into account all subjects mentioned on the candidate’s marksheet. Yet, every year, many candidates do just the opposite, especially those from the Indian Certificate […]

What began as a moral journey in 1993 to inculcate ethical values into the way management education is pursued in this country, IILM Graduate School of Management (GSM), Greater Noida, has come a long way. At IILM GSM, our focus is not on being a class apart, but in being a new class in ourselves. […]

Close on the heels of the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2013 evaluation fiasco, another one seems to be brewing right here, in the heart of Mumbai. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) applicants claim that they are at the receving end of some not-so-tight evalutation. According to a good, sizeable number of applicants, marks are […]

IIM Udaipur, Pic sent by Barretto Maclean Owing to a clash in interview calls from some prominent b-schools in the country, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur, the nodal point for admissions to the younger IIMs this year, has said that it will consider a date change request provided the interview call coincides with […]

Anna University has announced dates for the Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET) 2013. The exam for the MBA program will be held on April 6, 2013 from 10 am to 12 noon. The two-hour exam sees no change in pattern with 100 questions carrying one mark each. There is one-fifth negative marking incase of […]

Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) If you are attending the Group Exercise-Personal Interview (GE-PI) process at Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) this year, it would pay to know your cartoons as much as it would to know about the Syrian conflict! The institute, which has abolished essays […]