In a bid to harness strength in numbers, four well-known Asian b-schools joined hands formally this month to showcase the best of Asia to the global academic world. Calling themselves the ‘ivy-league of Asia’, the four schools aim to use the coalition to attract more number of applicants from the Western world to study in […]

Prometric, the testing agency entrusted with conducting the Common Admissions Test (CAT) today announced two companies — MeritTrac Services Pvt Ltd and Everonn Education Ltd — as its on-ground partners for CAT 2010. Both companies replace NIIT which participated in CAT 2009. “Everonn is an existing test delivery partner of Prometrics IT certification business and […]

Based on its experience with the 2010 final placements, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad will secure summer internships for the 2010-12 batch using what it calls the ‘cohort-based process’. The first of the interviews will take place on November 12, 2010, informed an IIM Ahmedabad press statement. “Based on the positive recruiter feedback […]

Jeremy Shinewald of MBAMission analyses the Wharton essays for 2010-11 and suggests approaches to write them. —— Wharton’s Admissions Director JJ Cutler has been at the helm for a year-and-a-half and has thus completed a full admissions cycle. So, we are surmising that he knows what he likes or does not like and has therefore […]

Admissions to almost twenty private MBA and engineering colleges in Maharashtra stand postponed for at least another two and a half months for this academic year. A division bench of the Bombay High court ruled today that the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will have to visit these colleges over the next two […]

An interesting bit of information came to light during our conversation with the IIFT Registrar yesterday. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), which has its campuses at New Delhi and Kolkata too would have made its entrance test computer-based had it not been for the collapse of the system during the controversial CAT 2009. […]

The official notification for applying to the Indian Institutes of Foreign Trade, Delhi and Kolkata is already out. The first step of the admission process is the written test which will be held on November 28, 2010. The shortlisted candidates from the test will appear for a group discussion and personal interview Here are some […]

Harvard Business School (HBS) has no plans to compete with Indian b-schools, but it would continue to help them build capacity to meet the local demand, said Harvard Business School Dean Prof Nitin Nohria in Mumbai on Tuesday. “Last year, we distributed 429,000 case studies in India and are involved with 16 business schools to […]

*PIMP = Prominent Institute of Management, Panvel (See the first part of this cartoon) More PG comics Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.

If there is one word that gets most communities the world over all stirred up, it is ‘plagiarism’. Be it artistes, musicians, writers, politicians or even academicians, they all rue the p-word. And in the space of higher education, including MBA, plagiarism is nothing short of blasphemy. B-schools that use the essay+recommendations route for admissions […]