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Boosting female enrollment in M.B.A. programs has proved to be one of the most stubborn challenges facing business schools. The percentage of women has held fairly steady for many years -- in the 25% to 35% range at most schools. That glass ceiling troubles Elissa Ellis-Sangster, executive director of the Forté Foundation in Austin, Texas, an organization of companies and schools dedicated to increasing the number of women in M.B.A. programs and the business world. Earlier this month, she talked with M.B.A. Track columnist Ron Alsop about obstacles schools face in attracting more women and some strategies to try to

Centre For The Development Of Glass Industry, (UNIDO/UNDP Assisted Project), A Govt. of India Registered Society, S.N. Marg, Firozabad (UP) 283203 Centre for the Development of Glass Industry has been established at Firozabad, with joint assistance of UNIDO/UNDP, Govt. of UP and Govt of India products and develop new glass melting and forming technologies ensuring proper utilisation of raw materials energy resources and assimilation of relevant energy recovery systems by the glass industry and protection of environment. The Centre is imparts training course in the following fields: 1. Chemical Lab Practices (2 ½-month), 2. Technique in Glass Cutting (6-month), 3.

At a time when the spotlight is on PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi and HSBC Indias CEO Naina Lal Kidwai for having broken the corporate glass ceiling, B-schools across the country are coming under focus for skewed sex ratios on the campus. Data obtained shows some of the most renowned management institutions have as few as 10% women students. Even the institutes with the best gender ratios have over 65% male students. Experts feel the gap can be attributed to entrance tests that are heavily biased in favour of engineers, given their emphasis on mathematics rather than people management and study

MUMBAI: At a time when the focus is on PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi and HSBC India's CEO Naina Lal Kidwai, the fact that companies breaks "glass ceiling", B-schools across the country are priorities the next sex ratio rises to the campus. Data shows that some of the most prestigious management institutions have more than 10% female students. Similarly, the institutions that have the best rate of sex, more than 65% of male students. Experts feel the difference can be attributed to the test, to the strong "partial" for engineers, because it emphasis on mathematics and not like human beings and management

It was not easy for Nooyi, for a mark in the male-dominated world of Colas. In'02, at a session of Q & A at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Nooyi asked what she had learned on its own to the development of enterprises, especially given the fact that very few Did women succeeded, for the proverbial "glass ceiling" Across Corporate America. The answer, says just spoke Nooyi, could you not too many women in the audience. "As women, immigrants and people of color, it took three times more difficult," she said. Thus, the only way was to work

Sociale. The traditional family roles. Sounds like the USA on the culmination of the feminist revolution in 70 years. But India is today a country where women are increasingly at the forefront. Not only in politics - the country the dominant political party, the National Congress Party, is yes, under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, a woman who disappeared from our ranking of the World's Most Powerful Women - but also in large enterprises. More and more women are fighting for a long time, prejudices and work its way to running businesses or creating their own businesses. But women in India, a

The Department of Education of the Government of NCT of Delhi has decided to provide free uniform to all students of classes I to IV enrolled in its Sarvodaya schools. Education Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan on Wednesday said as per the earlier directive, this scheme was applicable subject to certain income ceilings. Reiterating his government’s commitment to launching of “progressive” schemes for the uplift of weaker sections of the society, Mr Chauhan said under the revised norms a cash subsidy of Rs 300 would be payable to all students of primary classes of the Directorate of Education without any income ceiling. However,

Raising a glass to the wine MBA Wine is not only one of lifes more refined and varied pleasures, its also increasingly big business, with more than 23 billion liters of the stuff consumed each year. And where better to learn about the global wine trade than in Bordeaux? The area around the south-western French city is the most famous wine-producing region in the world, celebrated not only for its renowned, eponymous variety but also Médoc, Saint-Émilion and others. Early next year, a sixth annual crop of students will enter Bordeaux Business School to begin the one-year Wine MBA, learning about all aspects

Extra aid for women MBA students T PAYS to be a female MBA (Master of Business Administration) student as many top schools provide additional financial aid to women, revealed Georges Knell, associate dean of business programmes at the London School of Business and Finance. We are offering scholarships worth £4,000 (RM28,270) to students from Malaysia. Women get £2,000 (RM14,140) extra, he said, adding that women make up about 35% of enrolment at the school. Knell was one of four speakers at the forum on The MBA Experience and Getting Into Business School which was held in conjunction with the World MBA

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