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After much hoopla, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) conducted its first Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) today. Barring a few ‘wrong questions’ the exam was found to be fairly easy said aspirants, though the General Knowledge section was found to be a little more difficult than others. “The CMAT paper seemed like […]
SS Mantha, AICTE Chairman (Photo Credit: Astha A) A short interview with SS Mantha, Chairman of All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE) after the first day of the Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT) season. Today’s CMAT paper was easy, was that deliberate? That is a good thing. AICTE is trying to facilitate a process […]
Pic: (Flickr)All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,…the words by William Shakespeare make particular sense in the b-school scenario today, given the number of ‘artists’ pursuing an MBA degree. Almost ever top b-school […]
(Photo: Zack Klein) Candidates scheduled to appear for the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) this year appear perturbed with test centers allocated at far-off places and the paraphernalia-gathering required ahead of the test. They feel that the test centers could have been allotted in closer vicinities of their homes and that the requirement of getting […]
The new Goa Institute of Management campus Surrounded by mountain ranges on three sides and a valley on the fourth, Goa Institute of Management (GIM)s new 50-acre campus at Sanquelim in north Goa is located at the foothills of the Western Ghats. In this nature-friendly campus, all hot water is heated using solar heaters and […]
XLRI Jamshedpur (Photo: Muthuraja)Like Mumbai’s SP Jain, XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur too is planning to increase the student intake in its Post Graduate Programme in Business Management (BM) and Post Graduate Program in Human Resource Management (HRM) by 60 seats each starting 2013. The Institute will send in an approval application […]
(Photo: Sean Sllis) While talking to PaGaLGuY last week, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow director had articulated why it was becoming increasingly important for Indian b-schools to open their doors to foreign students and give a more global colour to their classrooms. Fresh data shared exclusively with PaGaLGuY by the Graduate Management Admission […]
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the makers of the Common Admission Test (CAT), are planning to put out a ‘CAT survey trends report’ over the next two years, providing detailed insights into the demographic profile of CAT takers over five years, a source in the CAT committee told PaGaLGuY. Inspired by the ‘Profile of […]
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai is planning to increase student intake in its Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from the current 180 to 240 starting 2013. The institute is awaiting a green signal from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for the expansion. “SP Jain had applied to […]