Here’s a story offering insights into how the seemingly inefficient practices of a regulatory body can affect the quality and price of education. The lament of business schools and engineering colleges in the middle of every year is usually directed at the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for not approving their courses, or […]

? The sound of gun shots may be a faint memory but the smell of gun of gun powder refuses to leave the senses. The uniform beckons but the mind is out to hunt different pastures. When the day in done, the memories of a battle field come rushing back, though the glimpses fade away […]

With interest in fulltime MBA at an all-time low, the 2010-11 admission season might have been the easiest in recent times to make it to an MBA program internationally. According to a survey of application trends at GMAT-affiliated b-schools by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), an increasing number of MBA programs worldwide reported a […]

Admission criteria changes have been announced in many b-schools, including a few Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) — all to include more non-engineers and women students. While IIM Raipur will add 30 marks to a girl-non-engineer, IIM Rohtak will award 20 marks to female candidate and 20 to non-engineers, so a non-engineer female candidate will […]

We all know what factorials (n!) are. They look friendly and helpful but looks can be deceiving, as many quant problems have taught us. It is probably because Factorials are simple looking creatures, that most students prefer attempting questions based on them rather than on Permutation & Combination or Probability. I will cover P&C; and […]

(Photo credit: Abhishek Kamble) Arriving in Kashipur late evening last week, I asked the three-wheeler drivers outside the railway station if they would take me to the one and only good hotel in town. None of them acknowledged having even heard of the name. I then casually mentioned that it was barely a kilometer before […]

(Photo credit: mcfarlandmo) SMS and Twitter are often accused of creating a generation with small attention spans who are growing incapable of expressing complex ideas in long and eloquent prose. Columbia Business School doesn’t think so, and in this year’s MBA application form, asks applicants to state their post-MBA goals in no more than 200 […]

Nathan and his family at dinner What can you do with Rs 45 in your pocket? Not much, you would say, given the rising costs of just about everything – but not for Nathan Adair (32), who is pursuing his MBA from UK’s Westminister University. As part of his b-school project, Nathan is living on […]

Looking back at the last three years, one new ‘big idea’ has dominated Indias business school admissions every year. If 2009 was all about replacing paper-pencil assessments with computer-based entrance tests, then the flavour of 2010 was limiting the number of engineers in MBA classrooms and increasing diversity. 2011 is increasingly shaping to be the […]

(Photo credit: Michael Gallacher) I guess my first fascination with problems of Time, Speed and Distance began when I first watch a film called Henna. An important portion of the plot, if you can call it that, had Rishi Kapoor floating from India to Pakistan in a river without drowning. I remember arguing with my […]