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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The placement of the summer, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade - School of International Business Management has had a flying start in the last month. Among the first companies on the campus visit, were majors like Hindustan Lever, Tata Administrative Services and ABN-AMRO Bank.

The average length of probation or pay packet scholarship was offered about R 15000 per month. The students are very enthusiastic about the projects they do during their summers. Richa Chaube, given the situation with Hindustan Lever said: “I will work towards a” hands-on “in the proposed pricing of FMCG goods. Other companies this year on the position were among LG Electronics, Levis , ITC, Telco, Tata International, Timex, ING Vysya Bank and UB group.

Most of those who came to participate in the “Pass Adalat” organized by the passport office had on Saturday for similar complaints, is most often the “address” the evidence was the big barrier to get a road passport. The Adalat, work together to accelerate the process, attracted a crowd of young educated youth.

Sadique Akhtar (26), Xavier Institute for Sozial-Service (XISS) graduate, won a scholarship from the USA a Ford Foundation study visit to the USA. He had requested a passport office in Ranchi in October 2006. A year later, it is still awaited. “The Foundation asked me a passport on October 15,” says Akhtar, as it appears in the queue until the Passport Office on Saturday.

Akhtar, from his home in the custody of police in Ranchi Doranda, had the same address in its request. But if the police came for testing, he was absent, giving the police a report saying he can not live there. “I could not stand in the house all year and wait until the police arrive,” he explained. The Bureau asks for an identity card, then to a statement under oath about his address, he had filed on 13 September. But its application is not yet the police for verification.

There are approximately 6000 of these cases, in the process of Ranchi office since 2006. “Police audit report, complete forms are incomplete as many reasons for delay,” said Herman LAKRA passport. Officials have stated that we must be careful, the address of proof. The plaintiffs, however, maintained that the police sometimes called the money as much as Rs 2000 for the granting of a favourable report.

The Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firms have been identified as the top-paying internship in the summer program Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai. Of the 116 students in total, 75 students have already been in business. Units of the public sector have remained by far the programme. Banking companies were generally higher pay scholarships for students. E-clerx has the largest scholarship of Rs25, 000 per month, while Standard Chartered has announced RS20, 000 per month.

Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur, founded in the year 1949.

The objective of the Institute is to help their students to develop vocational training and management of industry, government, labour and non-governmental organizations.

XLRI programmes Post-Graduate Programme in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (PM & IR), BWL, modelled on the Harvard Business School and Jesuit-business schools in the USA. There are scholarships for PM and IR and Business Management Day (BMD). Some of them are as follows: Jubilee for PM and IR, a scholarship to Rs50, 000, Reckitt Benckiser for PM and IR, a scholarship to Rs25, 000; anniversary for BM1, a scholarship to Rs50, 000; Nestle for PM and IR2, BM2, a scholarship to RS1 lakh, Geeta Saxena Memorial, PM and IR2, BM2, a scholarship for RS20, 000

As every year, and is much more daunting for salary increases, graduates of IIM offered during the months of March and November as part of its mediation in the summer and final placement.

Just weeks, a scholarship for a record amount of Rs 10 lach proposed for a student from IIM, Joka been done to train its tracks on the title page in most newspapers, while all News Channel radiated from the same reports. And all this, despite the fact that this was not the so-called “breaking news”.

A return trip in March of this year, and we remember the bidding for the payment packages offered Gaurav Agarwal and Venkatesh Shankaraman, both students of IIM Bangalore. During Venkatesh was offered lach Rs 30 per month - the highest domestic offer, Gaurav got the highest ever abroad, offer 193000 United States dollars.

As every year, and is much more daunting for salary increases, graduates of IIM offered during the months of March and November as part of its mediation in the summer and final placement.

While the packages offered looks like a dream for most, and in the media to further escalation of wages in a bid to prove a point to the booming economy of India, the picture for the people involved, is not as rosy as we do become Faire. “Coz, less than what comes from the high content of the figures are known to blackmail, threats and warns unreasonable unscrupulous elements in society.

Fortunately, the management of institutions seem to have woken up, the problem goes well. Fat demand wages that may not be another reason for not envy that the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore has decided not to release the scholarship pay in the transmission of figures this year.

The Institute of the decision comes as a follow-up to the concerns of the two amounts IIM-B-graduates wrote an e-mail to the Director of the Institute, as “the tenor of details, especially when it au - above the normal level of compensation, the tendency to catch the attention of unscrupulous elements in society and could lead to that immense physical and mental distress, for the persons concerned. It also gave rise to a multitude of personal problems for us. ”

Saurav Says Mukherjee, vice-president (courses) to the IIM, Bangalore, “It is a collective decision. Everyone from the stage at which the dean and the students themselves have agreed, the move is seen as favorable. Everyone knows how IIM graduate of great value. So it is not really necessary, the figures published. IIMs have failed to maintain the confidentiality clause that prevents them from publicly disclosing the figures of salaries offered by the companies, that on campus. This is surely, the students benefit greatly.

Placement at IIM Bangalore, Nagraj GK has added yet another point with the exception of the increase in risk factors. “With the publication of salary figures only, we are also a bad example of the judgement of nature. The Value-based education, the situation is also largely ignored. Everybody seems to have strongly caught in the game of money. The stage of the answer Now, we met one, and certainly all. ”

Director of IIM Lucknow, Dr Devi Singh, who believes that such a move is more than welcome. “We were rooting for this for some time. And it is really nice to see, finally, that all institutions are informed awaken. Immense interest figures are neighbours of salaries offered IIM-graduates is indeed a cause for concern. There is no lack of undesirable elements in society which is looking for an opportunity to earn money. Wages are invalid something very personal. why the world should be opened, the amount that one is always paid? Simply because in an institute recognized as IIM, and some of the best companies come knocking on your door, does not mean that the world can know how you are increasingly being paid. It makes no sense, n That is not in a position to reap the benefits of fruits Your work, which you during all these years. Therefore, it is very important that all institutions on the same make that arrest and the disclosure of wages and the substance of figures , especially when it from the top, “he says.

But what is it, asks the content of the figures for public space? The statement of the reason is the placement at IIM Ahmedabad, Praveen: “One is the sharp competition among IIMs factor with regard to businesses, they
Situation on campus to earn investment objective. But it is not only IIMs, which are responsible for disclosure high incomes. Very often, it is infiltrated by companies from as good and fail to demonstrate their courage. In the process, students receive to suffer unnecessarily under pressure. They are inundated with requests from all sources and respiration of the world have their poles, the media and all that glitters. This kind of tension, with a lot of money to do, is very unfortunate. It is in order to give figures on a means of investment, so that can be assessed, but highlighting the high salaries of some students must pay a strict no-no, “said Praveen.

Prashant Swaminathan, a student and member of the mediation committee, IIM Joka, institutions should also said its property, and not reverse, as in the situation. “We have more and more to ensure that the figures are never in salary. Only the average figures out. It is a long way and a model for other students and those emerging in the IIMs , “he says.

For once, we hope that the IIMs comply with the clause proposed by the centre for the plight of students. The blackmail and threats instead of money, much of a juicy quotes are willing to pay.

May-even acid. If you are lucky, one of the 90-odd IIM candidates for a place, chances are you need to worry about the supply has not cold. But what happens when one threatens blackmail?

The courses are offered and wages, have an interest in the media and by broadening it is a means of competition among B-schools. It is not only a way to improve the ratio of the mark (which is undoubtedly the fact), which revealed details tantalisingly are also a means of One-upmanship.