(Photo credit: James Whatley) Last week, the Chennai-headquartered Brilliant Tutorials’ branch in New Delhi was asked to cough up a refund of Rs 36,250 to a student who left the study course mid-way due to ill health. The New Delhi Consumer Forum, which passed the order, also asked the coaching...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MorePrometric, 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...
Read MoreBased 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...
Read MoreJeremy 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...
Read MoreAdmissions 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...
Read MoreAn 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreHarvard 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...
Read More*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.
Read MoreIf 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...
Read MoreFolks, nominations for the CAT Dream Teams and the Underdog Teams are now open. All those who missed it last year, this is your chance! You may now nominate yourself into the city dream teams of Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Mumbai or Chennai. Else, run for the...
Read More‘General Management Programme’ (GMP), the one-year executive MBA course of XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur completed its placements for the batch graduating in 2010. More than half the class joined the IT/ITES sector while 35% of the batch received salaries between Rs 12 lakhs and Rs 15...
Read MoreApart from the ten photographs that won prizes in the PaGaLGuY B-school Shutterbug Photo Contest 2010, a few more caught the judges’ fancies and then some stood out to us folks at the PaGaLGuY HQ. Here is a runners-up gallery of the contest, with some photographs having comments by Soumitra...
Read MoreFormer Chief Operating Officer officer of BPL Mobile and President, Aegis Global Academy Mr Subir Ghosh narrates his experience of turning BPL Mobile into a customer-focused company. As India becomes a services-led economy, its companies need to increase focus on the customer experience of their products, he adds. ———— As...
Read MoreMore PG comics Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.
Read MoreI have two pieces of good news for you all. First, that we have finalized the winners of our first B-school Shutterbug Photo Contest. Second, that the judges liked the quality of photographs so much, that we decided to extended the prizes to a total of 10 photographs instead of...
Read MoreIIM Ahmedabad today released the placements statistics for its one-year PGP Executive batch that graduated in 2010. “Of the 66 students seeking placements 64 have been successfully placed. The average salary for the batch was Rs. 26.1 lakhs an increase of 29.5% over the previous years average. Students who participated...
Read MoreRegistration is open for the IIFT Entrance Test 2010 which will be held on November 28, 2010. And while we are at it, the Symbiosis SNAP will be held on December 19, 2010. Both test days are Sundays. IIFT Entrance Test 2010 Now that the IIMs have frozen the October...
Read More(Credit: Patricia Drury) As is the case each year, Harvard Business School (HBS) has not overhauled its essays for the fall 2011 admission season either, but has tweaked them slightly. We would guess that this is likely about variety and change, rather than some shift in attributes sought by the...
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