The first version of the MBA entrance exam launched by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is scheduled to be held in February 2012. Called the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), it is little more than two months away and there is already hectic work in progress at the AICTE headquarters in New […]

A new scholarship for MBA students from India is now available at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as a result of a $1 million gift from the Tobaccowala Foundation of India, the school has announced. Students who receive the scholarship will be designated Akhtarali H. Tobaccowala Fellows, in memory of the 1952 […]

The Toronto-based Schulich School of Business of the York University may not wait for the passage of the bill allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in higher education before it starts operations in India. The Canadian school, which has been working on setting up a campus in Hyderabad in collaboration with the GMR Group will instead […]

Summer placements for the students of the post-graduate programme in Human Resources Management and Labor Relations (MA in HRM & LR) 2011-13 at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) – Mumbai concluded last week with the 58 student batch finding training projects across 34 companies. Participation by regular recruiters from TISS such as Procter & […]

(Photo credit: IMI Delhi by Ayan Banerjee) Starting the 2012 batch, winning in b-school competitions and doing social work will matter for Post Graduate Dilpoma in Management (PGDM) students of International Management Institute (IMI) — Delhi, because the institute will grade them for it. Called the Balanced Scorecard, the new system of internal evaluation of […]

(IRMA by Satwick Thumu) Editors note: Guest author Parasharan Chari, Chief Operating Officer of Ahmedabad-based test-preparation institute Endeavor Careers, analyses the IRMA Admission Test paper held on November 13, 2011 and predicts cutoffs for prominent rural management b-schools that accept this score. — — — The Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) admission test on […]

(Photo credit: Ludovic Toinel) All of last week, our inbox at PaGaLGuY was packed with summer placement reports from b-schools. The annual drill of going through the reports is quite a bit of fun actually – since one has to mesh through all the marketing jargon to get to the relevant numbers. There were lofty […]

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi has applied to the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) for a 2-acre plot of land in the Ghitorni area on the outskirts of New Delhi. The purpose is threefold a residential structure for executives enrolling under the Management Development Program (MDP), residential quarters for faculty and a […]

Harvard Business School’s case-method pedagogy has been one of inspiration and learning to many b-schools across the world. In Indian b-schools however, this mode of teaching is yet to gain ground as the ‘only one.’ Yes, there are combination teaching methods in some of the older Indian Institutes of Management and others – with a […]

(Photo credit: Aniruddh Phukan) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode secured internship projects for its 343 students of the 2011-13 batch with 108 firms including 35 new companies. Batch Strength 343 IIM Kozhikode claims that there were no opt-outs Total number of companies confirming presence 110 Number of companies that made offer 108 The […]