(Photo courtesy : Ben Husmann) Two MBA candidates were in for a rude shock when the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Hyderabad refused to refund them the admission fee of Rs 50,000 (each), they had paid for a seat for the PGDM program for the academic year 2013-15. The institute’s...
Read MoreIn a meeting of close to 40 deans and directors of PGDM institutions convened by The Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI), it was decided that these group of b-schools want to continue working under the regulatory framework of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Act 1987. This was...
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Read MoreParasharan Chari If one were to compare the May 2013 Common management Admission Test (CMAT) with the February 2013 CMAT, two words suffice. No no change. The exam is being conducted from May 19-22, 2013 across two time slots (9:30 am to 12:30 pm; 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm). Starting...
Read MoreThe All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) recently approved the one-year Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) offered by SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR). The program now extends from the current 12 months to 15 months. The immediate impact for the students will be the reduction...
Read MoreEarlier last month, a group of young business students made their way to the Sheikh Mohammed Center for Cultural Understanding (SMCCU) in the Bastakiya district of Dubai. These youngsters were none other than a group of Global MBA candidates from the S P Jain School of Global Management (S P...
Read More(Photo: GoDakshin) The Wikipedia article on Knights and Knaves says, Knights and Knaves is a type of logic puzzle. On a fictional island, all inhabitants are either knights, who always tell the truth, or knaves, who always lie. The puzzles involve a visitor to the island who meets small groups...
Read MoreHere’s a talk with Josh Howatt who was recently accepted an offer to join the CMU Tepper class of 2015. Josh blogs at Taking on Tepper. Thank you Josh for sharing your story with us…and congrats on your acceptance! This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuringinterviews...
Read MoreThe campus at night The Indian School of Business (ISB) Mohali campus is not yet a branded address, at least not like its more identified counterpart in Hyderabad. The autowallahs have not heard of it and the taxiwallas assume it should be one of the numerous new educational institutions that...
Read MoreAnna University, Chennai has declared the results of the Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET) 2013. Candidates can view the results here. TANCET is a prerequisite for candidates who want to pursue post graduate courses through Anna university or affiliated colleges.
Read MoreWe are less than two weeks away from the mother of all PaGaLGuY Meets, the All India PaGaLGuY Meet 2013. Of the roughly 100 passionate puys who will be attend the meet at Corinthians Resort and Club near NIBM at Kondhwa in Pune on June 1 and 2, 2013, we...
Read MoreRenny Thomas, Partner, Mckinsey & Company In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Renny Thomas, partner at global consulting biggie McKinsey & Co speaks about how the company thinks about hiring from business schools and undergraduate colleges and why it expects Indian b-schools to offer more diverse talent pools. An IIT...
Read More(Photo: Cali4beach) Does one need a classroom coaching programme to prepare for the Common Admissions Test (CAT)? MBA applicants often ask this question on online forums, and even otherwise to their mentors and peers – whether classroom coaching improves CAT preparation better. Or should they instead self-study and maybe join...
Read More(Photo: Apurv Pandit) Before we discuss the technical nuances of parallel construction in sentences, let’s analyse the two sentences written below, A. Every friend of John is a friend of mine. B. Every friend of John is also my friend. Sentence A creates more impact on the reader/listener than...
Read MoreThis was the second year that the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, (IIM-B) persisted with its radical attendance and summer placements guidelines. Better known as ‘attend class whenever you want’ and ‘opt out of summer placements if you feel like’ to the world outside IIM-B, these have been at the...
Read MoreAn IMPM class in session at the IIM-B campus There are a variety of business graduate programmes across the world but how many you know start by telling students that most business graduate programmes are destructive. Or, that to become a good manager, you need to have rain gear handy...
Read MoreA Supreme Court (SC) ruling on April 25, 2013 could have long term implications on the business education regulatory landscape of India. The court, hearing a petition filed by a group comprising the Association of Management of Private Colleges and some Tamil Nadu-based private institutes, has taken away MBA (not...
Read MoreNMIMS officials at the press conference held at the institute In a major education-related racket bust, six persons have been identified for having impersonated 87 candidates in the Narsee Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) which was held from October 11 to December 19, 2012. A joint team of the cyber-crime...
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Read More(Photo: Sigfrid Lundberg) Thousands appear for their CAT exam in the final year of their undergraduate studies. Those who are not able to get through in their first attempt reappear the following year and add to the ever increasing pool of candidates with work experience. With the Indian Institutes of...
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