Dr Nagesh Rao, MICA director Dr Nagesh Rao took over as President and Director of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) earlier this year. Having earned a doctorate in Communications from Michigan State University in 1994, Dr Rao taught in various universities in the US for over two decades. He earned the ‘Teacher of the […]

With Mohali on the scene now, The Indian School of Business, (popularly called ISB Hyderabad) is tweaking its admission process for the next academic year. This is to make both the campuses (Mohali and Hyderabad) one unified campus in the genuine sense of the term. To begin with, from the next academic year, one combined […]

The number of applicants for Common Admission Test (CAT) has increased this year, after a steady fall for past two years. There were 2, 14, 068 applicants this year. If one looks at the profiles of the CAT aspirants this year, it reveals an interesting trend. While candidates from engineering discipline continue to dominate (about […]

Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi concluded its summer internship placements for this year with 90 recruiters making a total of 215 final offers to the MBA batch of 2012-14. Of the total batch strength of 222, twelve students did not participate in the placements. […]

Thakur College, a CAT centre in Mumbai wears a deserted look this afternoon As PaGaLGuY writes this piece, the most powerful country in the world votes for its future. Apart from the significance of today due to the American presidential elections, this day also marks the end of the testing window for the Common Admission […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 has drawn to a close. A season laced with ‘technological’ hiccups and some bizarre power issues, one in which the number of candidates sent back because of wrong or insufficient identification was one of the highest in recent years. PaGaLGuY decided to get some straight answers from CAT Convenor […]

Pic: Flickr Mumbai boy Rishi Ayyers blog http://atearintherain.wordpress.com has created quite a stir in the MBA-aspirant community. Written a few hours after attempting to take his Common Admission Test (CAT) exam at a centre near Mumbai (Sanpada) today, the blog has raised some vital issues regarding photo identification and exam procedures. If you read Rishi’s […]

Have you ever wondered what would Gandhijis CAT/GMAT score have been? It is known that effective leadership requires emotional and creative intelligence more than reasoning and verbal abilities. Every individual has unique capabilities and strengths and possesses multiple intelligences. A leader should not only have good analytical capabilities but also have high Influencing Skills backed […]

Despite a tight job market, in search of a dream placement offer (Photo courtesy: thegoldguys.blogspot.com/) To help students combat placement stress, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta will allow the 2012-14 batch PGP students to have multiple summer placement offers from companies. The institute is also introducing a day break between the summer process, […]

Queens Mary Technical Institute at Pune An injury in a road accident during Operation Rakshak in Kupwada district of Jammu and Kashmir in 2001 stole away Veeresh Ms chance of living a normal life. Veeresh from Koppal in Karnataka was 22 then. Veereshs, spleen had to be removed after the accident and leading a normal […]