Cranfield MBA Scholarship for Sri Lanka

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 [...]

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US MBA courses get more expensive for British graduates

A report has suggested that it is likely that British students considering taking MBA courses in the UK will find it increasingly hard to find loans to cover the cost of their post-graduate studies.
According to a report in the Financial Times, the appeal of MBA courses in the US had recently been increasing among British [...]

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IIM-A ropes in MIT hand to promote innovation

An innovation expert from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be visiting the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), in November to promote the importance of user-based innovations in creating successful companies.
“India and Indians residing worldwide have a wonderful record as innovators and entrepreneurs. I believe users tend to be the real developers of [...]

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India has the potential global R & D-Hub: Mashelkar.

INDIA could leverage their cost-cum-competence of his great talent of a potential innovation of the race, which is not only the exchange would be made innovation, but also where R & D on the basis of innovation centres, which by Western societies, because scientists defined Dr. RA Mashelkar.
Time, the convocation address in the Indian Institute [...]

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Clash of B-school entrance examination dates

It is that time of the year again when thousands of students across the country appear for a slew of entrance examinations conducted by various business schools in the country.
This year, the examinations begin on November 11 and end on January 6. Unfortunately, Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) and ICFAI Business School Aptitude Test (IBSAT) [...]

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IT the key to banking revolution

Information Technology (IT) holds the key to kick-starting a revolution in banking, said Radha Unni, chief general manager, State Bank of India, here.
She was inaugurating a national conference on `Braving new frontiers in banking,’ organised by the ICFAI Business School, here.
She called for standardisation across banks and appealed to them to take the services to [...]

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New Delhi Business School emerges winner, management games

NIILM Centre for Management Studies, Delhi, the 11 winners in the National Student Games management held on Tuesday.
ICFAI Business School, Mumbai and the Institute of Management Technology, ghaziabad, the first and second runner. On the PSG Institute of Management, nine teams from different regions of the country, competed among themselves for the final Tuesday. The [...]

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Students Graduate in Ceremonies for 122d Commencement at St. John’s

St. John’s University conferred 2,146 undergraduate degrees at three graduation ceremonies held over the weekend.
The Rev. Donald J. Harrington, president of the university, gave the keynote address at all ceremonies for the 122d commencement exercises.
Addressing the students at the campus in Jamaica, Queens, yesterday, Father Harrington told the students that “the quality of life in [...]

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Robert Wareham Weds Darice Grippo

Darice Paula Grippo, a vice president in the investment-research division of the Putnam Management Company in Boston, was married yesterday to Robert Leonard Wareham, a senior trust officer with the Old Colony Trust division of the First National Bank of Boston. The Rev. David Drew Rose, a United Church minister, performed the nondenominational ceremony at [...]

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60 Are Chosen for National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences, a private organization established by Congress in 1863 to advise the Federal Government, has elected 60 new members. The election brings the number of active members to 1,683.
The academy also named 15 nonvoting foreign associates, bringing their total to 298.
Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors [...]

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