Reality shows can get you anything. From a spouse to an MBA. And yes you heard it right. In Singapore, 16 contestants are vying for an MBA scholarship of S$25,000 (Singaporean Dollars) in The Kaplan MBA challenge. Dont confuse it with The Apprentice which was for people who wanted to...
Read MoreThe right to education bill is on the verge of being passed but teachers are still getting a raw deal. Faculty at central government institutes were supposed to get a large hike in salary after the sixth pay commission came out with its recommendations. The hike which was supposed to...
Read MoreHow do test strategies change when you have to read tough Reading Comprehension passages from a computer screen instead of paper? Here’s a small tutorial that proposes a interesting approach to making sense of complex passages in the new context of computer-based CAT and speed up your performance in this...
Read MoreKapil Sibal, Indias HRD minister really has got the education authorities hopping around. First his plans of abolishing class ten board exams had all the state boards vigorously protesting and then his approval of the Yash Pal report had the UGC and AICTE up in arms. Its encouraging to hear...
Read MoreThe Supreme Court ruled and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have got cracking on admitting more students. IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has recently announced that the batch size will increase from 318 to 407 in next years admissions. IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) had gone for a big increase in seats for...
Read MoreSet right what you believe is wrong seems to be the motto of the Higher Education Forum started by Dr. A K Sengupta, Dean SIES College of Management Studies for regularization of higher education and ridding it off its corrupt practices. The Higher Education Forum or HEF was started as...
Read MoreWhat the IIMs never revealed in their press releases, a question in the parliament unearthed. In a written reply to a question posed in Rajya Sabha today, the Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal said that only 497 students were recruited from all the six IIMs by multinational companies...
Read MoreThe Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad’s Admissions Director Mr VK Menon is back on PaGaLGuY to interact directly with ISB applicants and answer questions on the admissions process, advantages of ISB, placements and other matters important for a prospective applicant. Yes, you too can pose a question to him...
Read MoreWe are taking nomination entries for this year’s PaGaLGuY Volunteer Program. Being a volunteer gets you access to the core of PaGaLGuY.com’s activities and new initiatives and some seriously good experience in marketing and event management. In order to be a volunteer, you need to be taking CAT 2009 and...
Read MoreCAT aspirants are expected to devote hours and hours of hard work if they wish to get anywhere close to their dream b-school. Well, it really shouldnt be too much to expect coaching institutes to provide better facilities for students taking the practice tests that are conducted. The news that...
Read MoreI happened to attend the Proto event on Saturday July 25th, 2009. Proto is all about providing a platform to young and budding entrepreneurs to meet venture capitalists and other investors so that they can strike up a deal for that symbiotic relationship. There was a plethora of harried people...
Read MoreHow do you monitor where your money paid to the government as taxes, goes after the returns are filed? Neelesh Misra from the Hindustan Times (HT) proposes a plan for a monitoring network and wants to employ MBA graduates to work on it. The plan is to employ the MBA...
Read MoreNot really, and if you ask the status at various coaching centers around the city, students are now more concerned about their strategies and fundamentals for the CAT than if they will be holding the pencil or the mouse in their hands while writing it. It is the season of...
Read MoreAfter its encounter with the RTI case, the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi has decided to take no chances with this year’s admissions. It took more than a year for the institute to reveal the marks breakup for written test, group discussion, interview and extempore conducted for 2008 admissions....
Read MoreFrom now on, when you are going to do something good, make something better or change something that is old, dont always expect a round of applause. Because very simply, even with the best of ideas you cant please everyone! In the education sector too, I saw the same scene...
Read MoreIts nice to see a case in which an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) has been chosen over Stanford University. The choice wasnt between MBA at the two institutes but it is still a tough decision. Every year, a large number of Indians go overseas for MBA programs at foreign...
Read MoreCan an event be a solution to the not-so-high-level of popularity in the education sector of an MBA college? Subhadeep Bhattacharya says “Yes”. For him, an event is a solution to most of the business problems of various organizations. Subhadeep belongs to the category of MBA graduates whose career dream...
Read MoreWhen Bush became the President of the USA, his MBA from Harvard signified just another educational qualification. During his eight year long tenure as the President of the USA, it again remained just another educational qualification; though of course it did become a cause of shame to Harvard. However, the...
Read MoreThe economic crisis brings MBA students and aspirants to India in search of studies and work. According to an ET report, there’s been a spike in the number of students from overseas business schools currently interning at software firms such as MindTree and Tata Consultancy Services. The trend of going...
Read MoreThe walls are clearly breaking down as far as education is concerned and the web will be a significant carrier for education in the near future. Distance learning MBA programs have been around in India for some time now where students prepare from printed study material and meet over weekends...
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