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It has taken the current slump in MBA hiring for Indian business schools and their students to realise that a recession is not something that happens to other people in other countries. It is perhaps the first April when most Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) haven’t yet declared their placement processes closed, grappling with 5-10% […]
(Photo courtesy: neubie) MBA applicants have more reason to worry this year. If the increasing costs of application, exam fees and tuition of business schools were not enough to break you into a sweat, get prepared to pay atleast 10-15% more for test preparation this year, no matter what part of the country. At Career […]
Dr Surajit Mitra, Director, IIFT Delhi & Kolkata In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Dr Surajit Mitra, Director at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi and Kolkata talks about sectional cut-offs becoming a permanent feature of the IIFT test, the possibility of shifting the IIFT test online and his views on a single National […]
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kashipur has concluded its summer placement process for the 2012-14 batch comprising 42 students. According to the institute, 28 companies made a total of 48 internship offers to the class. The novel part of IIM Kashipur’s summer placements this year was that the institute restricted every company to only […]
An economy poised to become the most powerful and robust in the world, an industry where revenue are expected to reach 1764 billion INR by 2016 with CAGR of 17% from its current size of approximately 960 billion INR, surely it is the ‘best place to craft your career’. Yes, we are talking about the […]
In a bid to improve the global rankings of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) by attracting more international faculty and international students, the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) has formed a half-dozen member member committee that will work on a new draft of the IIM Council Bill, an IIM director not wishing […]
Prof Jeemol Unni The Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat has a fresh ground plan for the next academic year. Some ideas in it include, taking in international students, new programmes, additional seats and novel infrastructure. PaGaLGuY.com met up with IRMA’s director Professor Jeemol Unni for a chat. Other schools also have rural management […]
Brand Yourself Globally with MISB Bocconi Mumbai “I chose MISB Bocconi because it gave me edge over other schools already existing in India. India being a booming economy right now I did not really want to go outside to study but at the same time I wanted an international exposure, an international course with global […]
Business Education 2.0 replaces conventional classroom learning at S P Jain Global Life at business school is often associated with an overdose of classroom lectures, exams, assignments, deadlines, and case studies. However, are business leaders built on the foundation of theories and concepts? Do practical skills have a role to play in business learning? The […]
Don’t be surprised if you are asked to hunt for your job next year. This and some more similar submissions were made at a secret and high-level meeting called by the Ministry of Human Resourcefulness, to discuss the dismal state of placements in b-schools this year. The meeting held in the Capital last week, was […]