(Photo credit: Nils Geylen) Starting this weekend, we will post a weekly digest of links to analysis or opinion articles from other websites and blogs that we feel might enrich both your knowledge and perspective about business education. We will try to cover the best of all prolific writing out...
Read MoreUntil 2008 — before the Common Admission Test (CAT) became a computer-based test — a single year’s print order of the paper-pencil test’s information bulletins and question papers weighed more than 50 tonnes, recounts Prof Satish Deodhar, the Convener of the first computer-based CAT in 2009 and a professor at...
Read MoreThe Maharashtra government has finally given the domicile certificate requirement a thumbs down for securing admission to a professional course (including MBA and PGDM) in the state. In a communique, the state government has declared that even a birth certificate or a standard class X passing certificate belonging to the...
Read MoreWith several European companies showing a keen interest in the Indian market and Indian companies starting operations abroad, the demand for qualified management professionals is consistently growing. To cater to this demand, Manipal University has been offering the Masters in European Studies & Management (MESM) program in partnership with Hochschule...
Read MoreHundreds of MBA students have just about left or are in the process of leaving Mumbai after having completed their summer internships with some or the other firm. For most, this is their first and only close call with actual ‘corporate’ experience during the MBA. PaGaLGuY reporters Anjali Mangal, Rozelle...
Read MoreWe usually react in either of the two ways to a physically or mentally challenged person sympathize or ignore. Prem Kumar Ravi, presently a second year student at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM C) reacted differently. He helped. Even while struggling to get into an IIM himself, Prem...
Read MoreNext weekend (June 1, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad will host a conference to discuss and finalize a common and transparent format for b-schools to report their placements with. IIM Ahmedabad’s Placements Chairperson Prof Saral Mukherjee hopes that a standardized process to record and report placements information will...
Read MoreDeadlines that extend like rubber bands. MBA applicants to Maharashtra b-schools who had failed to submit their domicile certificates before the stipulated deadline now have a reason to smile. The Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), which conducts the common admission process has decided to allow them to submit their domicile...
Read MoreThis post has been intentionally designed to make all those of you who did not attend the eighth All India PaGaLGuY Meet (AIPGM) 2011 at Bangalore on May 28 and 29 feel bad about not making it. We are going to share photos and videos of the biggest and baddest...
Read More(Photo: Christina Rutz) You have probably wondered how a no-name private b-school caught hold of your mobile number each time you received a telemarketing call or an SMS from such a school asking whether you would like to consider appearing for its admission process. More often than not, the telecaller...
Read MoreBy Anirban Chaudhari India as an emerging global economic power is no new news, however one of the key issues of managing this upsurge is not discussed much. It is the increasing gap in having trained manpower to fit into the ever increasing positions in a growing economy. This requirement...
Read MoreSee previous appearance of Prof Thambee A in Mind Your Business Anna! Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here. To view all the Mind Your Business Anna! comic series, goto pagalguy.com/comics.
Read MoreThere is a slight glimmer of hope for MBA applicants to Maharashtra b-schools caught in the domicile imbroglio at the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) office in Mumbai. For those candidates who have not submitted Maharashtra domicile certificates while applying for admission to various management courses and face omission, there...
Read MoreAmong the only two few Padmashri recipients in the management education space, management guru Dr Pritam Singh, Director General of International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi is well-known for having hauled up the fortunes of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow and the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon during his...
Read MorePic by Max Wolfe Photostream In a bid to fill up 2,100 PGDM seats, about 52 b-schools in Maharashtra are, for the first time, conducting a centralized admission process for b-school aspirants. The service will hope to net students who have taken any of the entrance tests namely: CAT /...
Read MoreISB Hyderabads Admissions Director Mr VK Menon is back on PaGaLGuY for the fifth year in a row hosting an admissions question and answer thread to address queries about ISB admissions, curriculum, faculty, placements, scholarships, etc. However unlike conventional online chats, this will continue 247 until the end of ISBs...
Read MoreWith a legacy of excellence spanning 2 decades, the Amity Education Group today comprises of 23 campuses spread over 1,000 acres and includes 4 world-class universities. It also has 17 schools & pre-schools, 150 top-ranked institutions and 5 international campuses across UK,USA, Singapore and Mauritius. The group is home to...
Read MoreThe vitriolic public reaction to Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s seemingly innocuous comment that “The faculty in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is not world-class. It is the students in IITs who are world-class. The IITs and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are excellent because of the quality of students...
Read MoreIf the court battle this year between the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and management institutes confused students and delayed admission processes in many schools, expect far more delays and confusion this year. None of the parties engaged in the legal battle over the controversial AICTE circular seems...
Read MoreAre you genetically right for your job or do you need a proper work-environment to bring out the best in you? This is the subject that Dr. Richard D. Arvey, currently the head of the Department of Management and Organization at the National University of Singapore has researched for decades....
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