The world renowned Cranfield School of Management in the UK will present a scholarship to any member of the three leading IFAC accountancy bodies in Sri Lanka, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants Sri Lanka (ICASL) or the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Sri Lanka Branch (CIMA). Full Time MBA Programme Director Sean Rickard who informed Sri Lanka of the scholarship said, “We hope the scholarship attracts candidates who will benefit from this initiative and that, with the help of the accounting bodies in Sri Lanka, it will raise Cranfield’s profile. We are extremely grateful for the support of the institutes in this. We will be reviewing the success of the programme after two years.”

ACCA Sri Lanka’s Immediate Past President, Dilshan Rodrigo, himself an alumni of the Cranfield School of Management extends his best wishes to all candidates and says, “I hope most sincerely that this initiative will signal the birth of a new generation of professional skilled managers who will add value to the corporate boardrooms of Sri Lanka.” Stating that this is truly a world class MBA ranked consistently as one of the top MBAs in Europe, he adds, “This one year full time programme is ideally suited for members in middle and senior management positions with ambitious career goals.” Rodrigo, who has continued to maintain ties with Cranfield, further reinforced the relationship once he became President of ACCA Sri Lanka, sourcing resource speakers for the ACCA National Conferences in the last two years. “Two people who played significant roles in mooting this scholarship from the Cranfield end are the former Director of the MBA Programme Professor Leo Murray who was the Keynote Speaker at our conference in 2006 and has a soft spot for Sri Lankans and Sri Sriskanthan, a Sri Lankan faculty member on the MBA programme.”

Cranfield has produced a distinguished honour roll of MBA alumni from Sri Lanka over the last two decades including Managing Director of Hatton National Bank Rajendra Theagarajah, Senior Vice President of WNS Arul Sivagananathan and Group Financial Controller of Stretchline Hasantha de Silva. Members of ICASL, ACCA and CIMA must apply directly to Cranfield School of Management, for which instructions are available on the Cranfield website ww.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/mba/, marking the application ‘Sri Lanka Scholarship’.

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Once again students from the School of Business & Economics MBA programme will be taking up the challenge of competing in the 2008 Cranfield Regatta, an international sailing event which is designed to allow MBA students and alumni from all over Europe to meet their counterparts from other business schools. The regatta will take place around Port Solent and Cowes on the last weekend in July and Exeter’s eight-strong crew are working hard in the hope of a high placing for the University. The crew is made up of part-time and full-time MBA students and alumni who have a broad range of sailing skills and experience but are dedicated to doing their best for Exeter. This year’s crew consists of current students Nadia Nikolova, Simon Baird, Nagyb Shah, Stuart Harris, Richard Dawson and alumni Jonny Malcolm, Mark Roberts and Wade Tipton. The race will consist of four head to head races with the various business school teams taking part. The team has is being sponsored by Vospers South West Motor Dealership, Jam Creative, The Birmingham Assay Office and House of Marbles.

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As part of its efforts to bridge the digital divide, TeX Users Group (TUG) has decided to tackle the geographical divide. For the first time, the annual meeting of the TUG is to be held at a venue outside Europe or North America. The 23rd annual conference of this free software users association will be held in Thiruvananthapuram Technopark this week, Mr Dominik Wujastyk, Director, Welcom Centre of Medicine, University College, London told a press conference, here. Mr Wujastyk, a Sanskrit scholar and a member of the programme committee of TUG-2000 said the three-day meet starting September 4 will be chaired by Mr Sebastian Rahtz, Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services. The conference will have 32 delegates from Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA. There will be 32 Indian delegates too. In India, TeX is widely used in institutions like the IITs, the Indian Institute of Science, Saha Institute of Theoretical Physics, and the Indian Statistical Institute. In Thiruvananthapuram, the Centre for Mathematical Sciences has long used TeX, as has Focal Image Pvt Ltd, an Indo-UK joint venture that has been using TeX for over a decade to run a profitable text processing venture. Mr Satheesh Babu, chairperson of the TUG-2002 organising committee said the meet would give a fillip to the wider utilisation of TeX in India. The organisers of the meet in India are Indian TeX Users Group, department of IT of the Kerala government and Thiruvananthapuram Technopark. The conference will be preceded by three days of tutorials, said Dr Srivatsan, Director, IIITM-K (Indian Insitute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala). Around 22 Indians have registered for the tutorials. Apart from the more specialized talks devoted to technical aspects of TeX, TUG 2002 will feature talks on typesetting traditions in India, an overview of TeX usage in India, an Indian perspective of new horizons in free software, fonts and packages to typeset Bengali script using TeX, and typesetting in Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian. TeX (derived from the Greek letters “tau”, “epsilon” and “chi” and pronounced “tech”, also alludes to “techne”, the Greek root meaning art as well as technology) is a computer program written and designed by famed computer scientist Donald Ervin Knuth of Stanford University for preparing publishable documents, especially those of a technical or mathematical nature. TUG, the TeX Users Group, is an international association of individual and institutional members who promote TeX, and discuss issues and problems related to TeX, principally through TUGboat, the quarterly publication of TUG.

Giving in to pressure from academia and corporate guide, the Indian government has granted permission on the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore to open a new campus in Singapore. The research activities and management Education Center’s only IIMB campus of Southeast Asia.

If IIMB sought permission to open the facility in Singapore in November last year, officials of Human Resources Development Ministry said IIM law does not allow open offices overseas. Officer employee beyond the need to meet the needs at home. The conflict ended on Feb. 1, according to HRD and Minister Arjun Singh IIM directors met to consider changes, the solution of the impasse.

This is the third Business School - and the only Business School in India - by the Wall Street Journal’s Top 100 Business schools have a campus in Singapore. The other two schools are INSEAD in France and the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.

The Singapore campus offers an MBA part-time for the mentoring program at the level of forces, Executive MBA programs for executives at the level of short-term Executive Education programs for executives and tailor programmes for Executive Education companies.

The Indian Institute of Management are the best business schools in India. Graduates of schools have a successful career in Asia, Europe and the USA.

IIM has six centers, which is based in Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Bangalore, Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode. Schools lead the postgraduate diploma in management programmes (which corresponds to an MBA), scholarship programs in the fields of management and organization based on programmes IIM also research and extension of the Institute for different industrial sectors.

Good news for humans, the favorite drink of scotch, soon a bottle of Black Label (750ml) is available for less than RS 1000 and Red Label (750ml) RS 500 in trade, if the government decides on mandatory basis for Imports less than 75% to 150%.

But this means bad news for the water industry, because they face competition with foreigners, imported spirits.

A study of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) indicates that foreign companies Schnaps huge subsidies from their governments. European subsidies for agriculture and agro-related activities are available in your area? 109 billion per year.

The main raw materials for industry, such as wheat and barley have averaged a portion of grants of more than 80% to 90% of the value of production. This has exceeded 100% in the case of barley.

The average amount of subsidies for agriculture per year for European farmers east of $ 17000 and U.S. $ 16000 for farmers. Lugubrement compare these figures with the Indian farmers, we get only $ 12 per year.

According to the UB spirits division President, Vijay K Rekhi, “The domestic spirits industry, the government wants to obtain additional customs duties on imported spirits, but also wants a level-playing field” for local readers. This leads to approve the dumping of alcohol in our country.

On the whole side of the local industry, the government is also suffering from alcohol as the second largest revenue after VAT. The industry contributes R 25000 crore downtown and government revenue of this enormous quantity of a state fund. ”

However, information sources in the local spirits, who said they were against any movement for a fixed amount of additional customs duties on imports, it is widely regarded as a duty to isolate the local industry to Lock cheap imports.

Deepankar Barat President, Jagatjit Industries Ltd said: “Our first reaction is that we are against additional flat fee on the ground that Indian companies are different excise duty of the State to State.”

Another important aspect to note is that the EU and other Western countries have built non-tariff barriers against Indian exports of whisky to their markets, cited definition of issues. The European Union, it is not possible to Indian whisky brands sold in Europe, on behalf of the European Union as whisky insists that whisky does not produce IMFL is spirit.

“The local industry has been the case, that result, on the abolition of quantitative restrictions by the government, they should be free to export their products in each country, in the interest of free trade. That has not been possible because of the rigid attitude the European Union, “said Rekhi.

Zenotech Laboratories is gearing up to roll out its oncology products by the end of the calendar year. The company is currently conducting toxicology studies at the Indian Institute of Toxicological Studies, Pune, for bringing out oncology biotech products which are currently the domain of the MNCs.

Some of the oncology products that the company is working on include, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GMCSF) and interleukin-2 (IL2) which are in the domain of companies like Novartis and Chiron, respectively, pharma industry sources told ET.

The company is engaged in setting up a full-fledged manufacturing facility near Shapoorji Pallonji Biotech Park, Turkapally. Zenotech has initiated target identification and validation programmes using gene and protein based technologies for bringing out oncology and neurology products.

The company’s name has been doing the rounds in the biotech industry for it has been promoted by Dr Jay Chigurpati who had earlier headed the biotech division of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories and was instrumental in launching the company’s first biotech product - Grastim. About seven scientists from Dr Reddy’s have moved with Dr Chigurpati and joined Zenotech.

The company at present has a research and development facility for generating recombinant proteins for clinical development. It is specialising in gene cloning and expression, fermentation, process validation, and manufacture of recombinant DNA products from bacterial yeast.

Zenotech has recently strengthened its board by roping in some big names in the industry. The new directors include Dr Denis Broun and Mr Vithala R Rao. While Dr Broun is currently the global liaison co-ordinator and the managing director of MSH, Europe, Mr Rao teaches marketing strategy and brand management at Cornell University, USA.

What is the relevance, if hundreds of MBA graduates to manage and large multinational corporations, products and services for ordinary citizens can not buy, because they are poor?

The Institute for Planning and Management (IIPM), MBA-degree (two years full-time during the planning and entrepreneurship) and BBA level (three years full-time when planning the programme and the spirit of company), where the emphasis is on the prosperity of the economy.

“Policies and academics, intellectuals too. There is no economy without the prosperity of the economy,” says Professor Arindam Chaudhuri, dean of IIPM. “This is an MBA / MA (Economics). Manager without adequate knowledge of the economy remains a mental handicap, “he adds.

IIPM is of the opinion that in the context of globalization, it is essential to train a new generation of entrepreneurs, given the new global challenges of the confidence of international markets, while others obligation for the eradication of poverty among Indian masses within a generation. The Institute, before the two tasks: a reorientation of education and research on the needs of public and private sectors and for the connection between national economic planning and development of private enterprises in the country. It aims to develop a three-dimensional personality of his students: the pursuit of knowledge, commitment to economic, social and cultural upliftment of the masses and culture of taste for literature and the visual arts.

The research has helped to develop their own IIPM themes such as “beyond the principles of Economics and Management Sciences learned that students concepts such as the survival of the weakest, the law of the marginal increase, with the exception of the old concepts of survival of the fittest on the market economy and the law of declining marginal. All students specializing in areas of marketing and information technology. “Business average sale . They do not understand, if you do not understand marketing, “says Arindam Chaudhuri. In addition, students have the option of specialization in finance or human resources.

Source: The genesis of this IIPM dates back to the sixties. A proposal by Dr MK Chaudhuri, the Institute under the name of the Institute for planning and management of the national economy has been sent to Jawaharlal Nehru, then Prime Minister and Chairman of the Planning Commission. A study has been turned by Dr MK Chaudhuri during 1964-65 to acquire first-hand knowledge on the treatment of similar institutions in Europe. A working paper on regional planning was put into circulation under the name of Indian Institute of Planning in 1969. The Institute was founded in 1973 by its founder Mr. Chaudhuri, director of the resumption as a professor and director of research at the resignation of the Chair Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Attendance at movie theaters: IIPM authorization test, e-Pat (entrepreneurship and planning Admission Test) is based on a written test, group discussion and interview. E-Pat is based on several parameters regarding EQ (emotional quotient) and mapping of the entire personality of IQ are often too high EQ rear seat when it comes to entrepreneurship.

Tests for admission-cum-interviews have been conducted so far in 15 centres - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Mumbai, New Delhi, Calcutta, Chandigarh, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Chennai, Patna and Trivandrum.The Faculty includes more than 75 permanent members and more than 35 members travel to each branch of the IIPM.

Internships: Last year, there were over 200 companies for IIPM campus placement, including several Fortune 500 companies. IIPM is located in Bangalore since the last academic year. It is also in New Delhi, Mumbai and Pune.

ICFAI University is helping in the globalisation of Indian business education and research through its case study development. ICFAI started developing its own case studies because of the lack of contemporary Indian cases and the non- usability of case studies developed by the Harvard Business School due to unfamiliar terms and language used. According to Dr A Besant C Raj, Chancellor of ICFAI, case studies help students in developing communication and interpersonal skills besides imparting knowledge. Case studies also instil confidence in students and expose them to industries, organisations, functions and responsibilities.

The case studies developed by ICFAI are used by over 100 business schools worldwide apart from several management textbooks published in the US, Canada, the UK and other parts of Europe. ICFAI has also won prizes in international case study writing competitions.