The four top seeds in both boys and girls singles and doubles advanced to today’s semifinals in the TSSAA Division II Middle/East Individual Region tournament held at Baylor. The semifinal matches are scheduled for 9:30 a.m., with the finals at 1:30 p.m.

McCallie’s David Henry didn’t lose a game in winning round of 16 and quarterfinal matches. No. 2 seed Brandon Fickey (Webb) also advanced to the semis. Fickey faces McCallie’s J.P. McLemore.

In doubles, McCallie top seed Wes Nelson-Chris Schlabach faces Baylor’s No. 3 Orlando Lourenco and McGregor Wallis in one semis match. No. 2 seed Alex Rudd-Forrest Edwards (Webb) faces No. 4 Thomas Fanjoy-Roger Briggs of McCallie in the other semifinal.

In the girls brackets, the two top seeds – No. 1Gabriela Rangel (Pope John Paul II) and No. 2 Claire Bartlett (GPS) – advanced to the semis. Rangel takes on No. 4 Sarah Evans (GPS, while Bartlett faces No. 3 Anne Marie Herbold (BGA).

In doubles, top seeded Guinn and Vicki Garcia (Webb) and second seeded Currant Scruggs-Katie Thornton (Baylor) both reached the semis.

Unseeded Erika Marschall and Kelly Scruggs of Baylor knocked off two seeded teams (Nos. 6 and 3) to reach this morning’s semis against the Garcias.

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The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) has set aside a sum of Rs 1.5 crore towards financial assistance for needy students who are facing difficulty in getting admitted to the premier B-school due to financial constraint, in the current year.

In the 2007-08 academic year, IIM-B had disbursed Rs 91 lakh towards assistance for needy students. “Keeping in mind the increase in fees for the entering batch, the amount budgeted for financial aid this year has been revised to Rs 1.5 crore,” it said in a statement. The financial assistance by IIM-B is in addition to bank loans what the students can also avail. “The objective of IIM-B’s Financial Aid Policy is to ensure that no student is deprived of education at the institute for financial reasons,” it added.

The eligibility criteria to avail financial assistance in the ongoing year has been revised to include those students with an annual household income of Rs 300,000 (from previous year’s Rs 200,000). A student seeking for this assistance, needs to fill in a form detailing information like annual household income, savings, assets and outstanding loans.

The quantum of the financial assistance to be awarded to a candidate is decided, based his/her financial needs which is determined during an interview with a panel comprising two faculty members. In case a student is facing difficulty in making the initial payment to secure admission, he/she can send the application ahead of time, according to IIM-B.

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The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) has set aside a sum of Rs 1.5 crore for assistance to the students who are facing difficulty in getting admitted into the institute this year.

In the academic year 2007-08, IIM-B had disbursed Rs 91 lakh towards assistance for the needy students. “Keeping in mind the increase in fees for the entering batch, the amount budgeted for financial aid this year has been revised to Rs 1.5 crore,” it said in a statement.

The financial assistance by IIM-B is in addition to bank loans that the students can also avail of. “The objective of IIM-B’s financial aid policy is to ensure that no student is deprived of education at the institute for financial reasons,” it added.

The eligibility criteria to avail of financial assistance in the ongoing year has been revised to include those students with an annual household income of Rs 3,00,000 (from previous year’s Rs 2,00,000).

A student seeking this assistance needs to fill in a form detailing information like annual household income, savings, assets, and outstanding loans.

The quantum of the financial assistance to be awarded to a candidate is decided based on his/her financial needs, which is determined during an interview with a panel comprising two faculty members.

In case a student is facing difficulty in making the initial payment to secure admission, he/she can send the application ahead of time, according to IIM-B.

Banks including SBI, SBM, Andhra Bank, and Allahabad Bank also provide loans to students for getting admission into IIM-B.

The students who want a loan up to Rs 10 lakh do not require providing any collateral. Credila Financial Services, an educational loan services company, also provides educational loans under similar terms.

Calcutta: Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, decided to publish the list of salaries on 1 May, Thursday. Candidates for the CBO are interviewed in the category on May 15 and their names would be published within two to three days. This year, 318 is the number of seats projected for 2008-10 batch of PGDBM.

Earlier, IIM-C has been earmarked for the publication of the list on 11 April. But the Supreme Court for reducing the backlog of results by more than three weeks. Classes of IIM-C begins on June 23 and students are required for admission on 19 May.

CBO candidates, competition in the open category and has a seat at the IIM-C, from the list of CBO, which are published in a few weeks.

“Pupils and students who appear for the interview, despite belonging to the category of CBO and could not, in itself, in competition with general conditions Applicants must submit a sworn statement that they are not Part of the creamy layer, for consideration by the Admission, “said Subrata Mitra, president of the number of visitors in IIM-C.

CBO Candidates are required to give two explanations. CBO is a certificate and they are not part of the creamy layer, as IIM-C and the MHRD. It was decided at a meeting of directors of the six IIMS in New Delhi on Wednesday. The other five IIMS is also explained the results on Thursday.

Previously, Aashish Bhattacharya, former president of CAT and coordinator between the IIMS to decide on the date of publication of the list of merit, indicated that IIMS May publish the list of candidates without CBO. With 318 the number of seats provided, IIM-C students could 9-10 CBO category.

Ahmedabad (PTI): The IIM review committee arrived at the Indian Institute of Management here on Friday to discuss various issues, including the fee structure.

The five-member review committee that arrived here this morning held a meeting with IIM-A director Sameer Barua and other senior faculty members of the institute.

“Our terms of reference include 11 aspects. We are here to review all these aspects including fee structure,” Committee’s Chairman, R C Bhargava, said.

“We have visited Bangalore IIM and are going to visit other IIMs also before submitting our report to the Ministry,” he said.

When asked whether the committee’s recommendation to hold back the fee hike was being implemented, Bhargava said, it was for the IIMs to implement it.

The review committee, in its interim report submitted on April 4, had asked the Central Government to ask all the IIMs to defer any increase in fee, till it submits the final report.

The committee is also likely to meet some members of the IIM-A Board of Governors later in the day.

The faculty members of IITs and IIMs may see a salary rise as high as 200%, to bring them at par with global pay levels.

The institutes had earlier followed the recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission in deciding the salary structure of their faculty and other staff, which is currently equivalent to the salary structure of joint secretary to central government.

Kolkata, December 30: When the Minister Buddhadeb Heiniger readily accepted, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) at the invitation of his etchings celebration, the country’s oldest Business School decided for him the best ideas on how established special economic zones (SEZs), putting the theme of the Business Plan competition.

On January 7, the Chief Minister will attend the six teams in the Short List discuss their plans, the third and final day of the IIM-C-Burning. On the list are three teams of IIM-C, a compact XLRI Jamshedpur, one from IIM-A and one of SGF Delhi. The total prize money of Rs 1 is lach.

Profiles Saugata Ray, the coordinator of the Faculty of Engraving, said that if the Chief Minister agreed, special guests, IIM C, the team began to think, when they do something for West Bengal. It was then decided to request a plan based on a theme that will help the citizens of government.

“The perpetrators of the company, the government’s plans, but copyright can always follow up with the winners and their rear-Venture Capital-men,” says Ray. Guest plans is a leading member of Reliance Industries, and some of the areas of infrastructure, the board Ventures opinion, including the founder Ramasubramaniam RS - an IIM-A Alumnus.

“Juries are leaders of VCs,” said Professor Ray “If the groups it is serious, it VCs, course outlines. Given that the subject is SEZ as a business proposal, it help those in the business world. Different models of income, the various models as a basis for the acquisition, use of land and receive income from agriculture, receive the support of those who lose their country - while this figure is expected that in the plans, “he said.

An IIM-C-Etching, “said the spokesman students from renowned schools from all over the world, such as Harvard, Yale and Wharton.

Lucknow, Mar 29 With climatic changes radically altering the business environment worldwide, the major challenge confronting the corporate world, largely perceived to be the worst contributor of greenhouse emissions, is to reconcile economic imperatives with environmental sustainability.

With this goal in mind, the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, on Saturday, deliberated on opportunities and challenges to the Indian businesses in the changed business paradigm. The two day seminar on ‘Climate change: opportunities and challenges for corporates’, drew eminent experts in the field of climate change.

Speaking at the inaugural session, Prof Sushil Kumar, IIM-L said, “The challenge for business honchos lies in developing sustainable business strategies which align environmental, social and economic goals of businesses”.

Talking about clean development mechanism (CDM) and how it can be used by the corporate world, Umamaheswaran, manager, Carbon Procurement Unit, GTZ, said India has become the leading destination in the carbon market. “There are as many as 321 registered projects in India and the country is the 2nd largest (after China), in terms of the volume of certified emission reductions (CERs) envisaged. The way ahead lies in continuing to mobilise private sector participation in CDM”.

BANGALORE: After the IITs, it is now the IIMs that are changing their selection process. This year, the IIMs are putting more emphasis on written exams, as both IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Lucknow have asked the students to write short essays. IIM-A, in fact, has done away with the group discussion altogether, much to the surprise of students who spend months preparing for the GD and interview.

Although the admissions team at IIM-A could not be contacted, the institute confirmed that the format had been changed this year. “We asked them to write a short essay instead of doing the group discussion,” a professor at the institute said.

While IIM-L did hold a group discussion this year, they asked the students to write an essay on the group discussion topic for which they were given 30 minutes. The essays will also be evaluated by the institute. IIM-A gave the students around 10 minutes to write the essays. According to experts, the IIMs have done this as writing skills are often an important part of the MBA course and it will allow them to analyse a student’s thought process. The students will also be questioned on their essays during the interview. Written tests are a also big part of the selection process in most foreign B-schools.

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Although the change in the selection process is likely to have taken students by surprise as they were not informed about it before hand, according to Ajay Arora, director of the coaching institute Triumphant Institute of Management Education (TIME) Bangalore, students have been able to cope with the text as they already prepare for written tests, which are useful for other entrance exams.

“A lot of students who get a call from an institute like IIM-A are of very high calibre so they did not find it very difficult. Also they prepare for other exams simultaneously which require them to write essays so they were not completely unprepared,” he said. Mr Arora says the change was a surprise only for the first day. The students who went in after that were a little better prepared.

Though this change points to a decrease in the importance of group discussions, Mr Arora says that with the IIMs it is hard to tell what they will do in the future. “Whether this will be adopted by other IIMs or will be continued next year is hard to tell as the IIMs keep changing the selection process very often,” he said. IIM Bangalore, however, has another view to offer.

“Every IIM has its own selection procedure and we are not planning to scrap the group discussions. We believe it is equally important,” a spokesperson at IIM-B said. All the IIMs put together call approximately 4,500 for the interview and group discussion of which, this year including IIM Shillong, 1,600 will be selected.

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The eternal quest for glory in the war of business supremacy begins here! The battle-field waits even as the scene is set for the brightest of minds and the sharpest of intellects to clash. The trumpet calls for the valorous knights adorned with armour-de-acumen. All
that remains is to unleash your sword and raise the battle-cry, while the world witnesses the emerging titans. Indeed, it is the Call for Arms - Rise, Raise thy sword!

The siege begins on 11 January 2008 at Castle d IIM Lucknow - on the occasion of Manfest - The Celebration of Champions of the Indian Corporate Empire. From the far-flung institutes of business and management, the best warriors are being sought to form contingents that would bring glory to their college.

Call for Arms - The Battle of B-schools, being held in association with Cognizant Technology Solutions, promises a series of stimulating management competitions where the best teams from the top B-schools in India will compete to settle once and for all as to who is the best. The partner Cognizant Technology Solutions is an information technology services company which has been named in Fortune 100 fastest growing companies for the past five consecutive years. With a strong performance record, Cognizant has a legacy of service and innovation that gives clients experience that they can count on around the world in any market

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