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Emily Rose M.Sc. from Mount Pleasant, St Philip, has carved her name into educational history by earning the highest mark ever awarded for an MBA dissertation by the University of Durham Business School.
Emily, a second cohort student on the Durham Caribbean MBA programme, graduated with a mark of 90 for her dissertation on The Effect of Displays, Display Location, and the Moderating Influence of Price, Promotion and Signage, on Unit Sales in a Barbadian Supermarket.
Her extraordinary mark, in addition to her excellent performance throughout the programme, won her the Ernst & Young award for the top student of the programme s Class of 2004, and also the Dean of Durham Business School s prize for best dissertation.
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Management graduates specialising in insurance are making the most of the rapid growth being witnessed by the insurance sector in the country. This is reflected in the rising graph of their annual pay packages offered at campus placement in specialist institutions like the National Insurance Academy (NIA), Pune.
This year, the highest pay pack bagged by an NIA school of management (NIASOM) student touched Rs 8.5 lakh per annum - up from the Rs 7 lakh per annum highest mark during last years recruitment exercise.
The average salary package, too, has gone up significantly from Rs 4.5 lakh to Rs
U of M study: standardized tests outdo prior academic experience in predicting student success
In the largest and most comprehensive study of graduate and professional school admissions tests, a University of Minnesota-led team has found that standardized test scores are more accurate than prior academic experience in predicting student success. Nathan Kuncel, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, and Sarah Hezlett of the Personnel Decisions Research Institute said that after 80 years of controversy about the value of such tests, their study reinforces the correlation between students standardized test scores and success in their graduate studies and
The annual management mark Feast of the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (Mica), Micancanvas takes place from 27 until 29 October.
The theme for the festival, "The Black Box-Unlocked" is a space in the thoughts of consumers and the sum and substance of everything that defines the New Age Indian consumers, Atul Tandon, director, mica , Said.
IIMS student, FMS, ISB, MDI, TAPMI, IMT, IIFT, XLRI, XIMB, JBIMS and IITS would be three in the event. Furthermore, asked to choose Mica Undergraduate Colleges, for the first time. .
The Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-I), founded in 1997, has a mark of Indian Industry. Its Post-Graduate Programme (PGP), and management of two years full-time residential courses.
The period of eligibility is a bachelor. The selection process includes a written test (CAT), a group discussion (GD), and an interview.
Currently, the approximate annual cost per student is Rs1, 20000
Experiential Learning, social sensitivity, worldwide and the prospect of focusing on the technology, the Institute are its strength. Experiential Learning is the student in the workplace of an organization. The first year, students are PGP to an organization who visit once a week
The TOEFL results comprise four different scores : a total score (0-300),
a separate score for Listening section (0-30),
a separate score for Structure/Writing section (0-30) and
a separate score for Reading section (0-30).
The total score is reported on a scale from 0 to 300.
Note that your Essay score will individually be rated (0-6). However the essay score is incorporated into the Structure/Writing scaled score with the rating of essay constituting approximately one half of the Structure/Writing scaled score. You get to know your Listening and Reading section scores immediately after taking the test. You will also see your Structure/Writing scores as
Owana finally ends her MBA journey
There is a Chinese Proverb that says, The longest journey begins with just one step. This long journey was taken and completed by another young Barbadian lady, who is now riding on the wave of success.
Michelle Skeete or Owana, as she likes to b e called, is a recent MBA graduate from the Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity (BIMAP) and Surrey University. Owana holds a Bachelors of Science (BSc) in Management Studies from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus and knew it was important to pursue post-graduate studies to make herself
A second year Post-Graduate student at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad to have landed a flying flat sewing U.S. $ 1.85000 Search for a job overseas - the highest ever in a certain IIM up 'here.
The first day of the course, this process began on Wednesday. And the national wage is also a new record with an offer of Rs 20 lakh.
The offer overseas by residents in the United Kingdom, an investment bank, Barclays, is much higher than the record year of 1.52000 U.S. dollar content of HSBC, London, bags from a other IIM-A Grad
On the domestic front,
Cracking the CAT or the Combined Admission Test is just not enough to get into the IIMs. Your Class X and XII marks matter more.
IIM-Bangalore has revealed the details of just what it takes to get into one of the country's top B- schools.
Contrary to popular perception, CAT scores make up only one-fifth of an aspirant's final score. Other criteria include the applicant's X and XII results, which together account for almost 25 per cent of the final score.
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With the quota row not completely over, IIM Calcutta has quietly followed IIM Ahmedabad in 2007 in announcing their minimum acceptable cutoff scores in the CAT bulletin to maintain minimum standards. The cutoff applied even to reserved categories, says the bulletin.
The IIM Calcutta notification in the CAT 2007 bulletin reads, A candidate (including a reserved category candidate) to be shortlisted for GD and PI for admission to post-graduate programmes should obtain a minimum of 20%, 20% and 10% in quantitative, logic and data interpretation and verbal sections respectively.
IIM Calcuttas Chairman of Admissions Prof Ashish Bhattacharya said, This has been
The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) has pipped all other IIMs this year by bagging the highest domestic offer across all IIMs during lateral placements.
The institute beat its more illustrious counterpart, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to grab the top spot in the highest domestic salary offered during laterals.
The highest offer at Rs 16.2 lakh, made by a software major to an IIM-C grad, betters the offer made by Genpact to an IIM-A student at Rs 15.5 lakh. It is also the best-ever domestic offer in laterals.
In addition, international firms such as Johnson Electric, Microsoft, Mittal Steel
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