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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Mumbai, June 20: Before I down to business, Tim Marshall dipping, it is occupied, in the dean of the Parsons School in New design has already tried to shrimp, lamb and aloo gobi, the city has to offer. He saw the slums, visited IIT and Tata Institute of Social Science. Indeed, it is also a game for a few sips of water from the coconut, a supplier of road.

“As just China, where cities such as Singapore CHK, with a large loss of their indigenous culture between the growth of infrastructure, I hope that the development of Mumbai is not homogenize top-down,” says Marshall, an Australian American, Sydney gets home.

This is the theme of the keynote speaker will be one for PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge and Action Research) Lecture on “training in the design of a Globalizing World.

“Arjun Appadorai, the chairman on the board of directors of the PUKAR played a pivotal role in the transmission of my visit. Together, we are exploring ideas on urbanization and living space,” says 46 - yer-the oldest, has played an active role in the development of science and industry partnerships for international institutions, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia and China.

Marshall accepts the challenges of Mumbai are serious. “While the city is a difficult animal to tame, there are cities such as Shanghai, Bombay, is often compared to achieved a balance between nostalgia for the past, and a strong sense of urbanism. It would be for me l ‘ideal tracking module, “he said.

Marshall is a pipe to stop tour of the city on Friday and returned to the United States, but he hopes to return soon to visit schools of design in Mumbai. “My stay here is the shortest is, I am not quite sure to comment Mumbai in general, but I saw some fascinating Art Deco building, and it seems to be a tremendous diversity of our cultures, of the court for De chawls increasing suburbs, “he added.

Marshall explains what he means, a “top down” approach to infrastructure development. “While we want, for a city, a global goal, it should not be done at the expense of” Tearing-cultural structure. Verdrängende communities and shopping malls do Esta Kaden is not the answer. Good planning must be compatible with the needs of the local population, rather than another on the module over it. ”

Marshall, who has published several books in academic and professional publications in Australia and Europe, reinforces his view that, during a stay Investment Banker May in Mumbai for a few months, the indigenous people have lived here all their lives.

“Students need dreams in their head, compassion in their heart and fire in the belly to achieve success”, said Dr Mujumdar, Founder-Director, Symbiosis Society, Pune.
He was speaking at the Annual Convocation ceremony for the Class of 2002, Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB).
Close to three hundred people were gathered in the main auditorium of the Vishwa Bhavan to bid a final adieu to the class of 2002 at the 10th annual convocation ceremony. The keynote speaker was Dr I G Patel, former governor, RBI.
Dr Mujumdar delivered the welcome address that was followed by a presentation on the college. Soon after, Dr Patel delivered his convocation address where he mentioned that it was ‘more important to ask the right questions than have the right answers; that it was critical to remember the value of trust and ethics in business’.
Representatives of the Class of 2002 shared their experiences with the house and thanked their alma mater.
The ceremony concluded with a felicitation of both Sharad Marathe, chairman advisory body and Dr I G Patel. Dr Mujumdar the gathering that out of a total of 40,000 foreign students studying in the country, Pune educates 9,000 of them.