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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Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow today announced its fourth six months General Management Programme for Defence officers. This 24 weeks General Management Programme is the fourth in a series of such programmes being organized for Defence officers, and the first at NOIDA campus. The programme is open to both short service commission officers and others. The programme was inaugurated today at the NOIDA campus by the Major General, SG Chatterji, VSM, Director General, Resettlement.

The response to the first three programmes conducted by IIML was a huge success with all 49 officers of the first programme and 60 of the second getting good job offers. The third batch, which is undergoing placements right now, is also witnessing a slew of great offers. This year after applying the selection criteria 59 Defence Officers from all three branches of the Armed forces have been selected for the programme. Out of the 59 Officers, 7 candidates are Lady Officers.

“Management education to defence personnel contributes to providing defence officers a second career choice after retirement. But the larger role in the national interest is to prepare a disciplined and responsible citizen to play important roles in today’s competitive business scenario” say Prof. NK Gupta & Prof. SC Bansal, Program Directors.

The Indian Armed Forces carefully selects Officers and continuously trains them in the art, science and craft of WINNING. Every year, hundreds of these Officers retire, with rich experience in learning, critical reasoning, objective decision making, creative thinking, leading and motivating people, running organisations and managing projects. The aim of the programme is to capitalize on these skills of the officers and optimize them to suit the corporate world’s requirements.

As in the past, the fourth programme is also expected to generate an enthusiastic response from the corporate world and given the intense nature of the programme it is sure to equip the participants with the necessary skill set so very essential to conquer the corporate world.

The objective of the GMP is to provide the participants with a basic understanding of the managerial systems and processes. The programme has been designed to provide the defence officers with basic functional inputs in subjects such as accounting and finance, decision sciences, organizational behavior, human resources management, communication skills, marketing, strategy, information technology and business environment.

The idea is to familiarize the officers with the requisite analytical tools and techniques; and develop a holistic perspective and global mindset to understand issues of an enterprise.

Source : prurgent.com

A unique opportunity for higher education aiming to prepare future leaders of the community is coming to Pickaway County this fall.

Berger Hospital is teaming up with Ohio University in Athens to offer OU’s professional Master of Business Administration in Circleville.

“We’re constantly meeting to talk about what we might do to expand educational opportunities for the community,” Berger President Tim Colburn said. “Why an MBA program? Because health care is a business, and we need to make sure we’re building and developing future leaders.”

Berger already has a partnership with OU at its Chillicothe branch to train nurses in Circleville, and Colburn said the success of that program gave Berger an inroad for more educational offerings locally.

The program, which takes about 22 months to complete, consists of one evening a week of classroom activities held via video conference with instructors in Athens and a weekend course once every six weeks on the Athens campus.

OU has been offering the professional MBA through outreach programs for the last five years, according to Dr. Ed Yost, OU’s director of executive graduate education and development, and he said it’s been very successful preparing students for the business world.

“This program is aimed at working professionals to complete an MBA in a non-full time environment,” Yost said. “It’s designed for people that who maybe don’t have a business degree to give people a background to turn into a managerial career step.”

Yost said the course is delivered with more group projects rather than class work, and that was part of the appeal for Berger, according to Suzanne Welker, Berger’s human resources director.

“We’re excited about the synergy the group will have and think the teamwork will benefit the hospital and community,” Welker said. “Business management develops over time and we want to maximize skill development.”

Students in the program will learn about analytical decision making, which focuses on making good business decisions and professional development, including managing people and resources, teamwork and leadership, according to Yost.

He said the course also gives professionals the opportunity to meet people in other businesses and build on local networks.

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For Indian Business Schools with global ambitions, Singapore is fast, hot as a goal. Earlier this year, IIM Bangalore announced its plans for the creation of a campus. And now Mumbai-based SP Jain Institute of Management and Research expects to likewise.

If this SP Jain overall the second incursion within two years. In 2004, the Institute has a campus in Dubai and was the first to offer a full residential full-time MBA program in the Middle East. Beflügelt by its success, it now has its sights on Singapore.

It is interesting to note that both SP Jain and IIM-B-plane orientation of the Indian diaspora in Singapore. Nearly 7.9 percent of 4 million people of Singapore are of Indian origin, this is the third ethnic group by the Chinese (76.8 percent) and Malays (13.9 percent).

IIM-B is planning to target the leaders to work in Singapore is short-term programmes Executive Education and Executive MBA, while SP Jain can be full-time program or an Executive MBA. “What are we going programmes make a bit of localization,” says ML Shrikant, dean of volunteers, SP Jain. “There will be a strong component of India programmes, such as the Modern World increasingly interested in India in the region, “she added.

Both IIM-B and SP Jain plan to fly down right in India. This could lead to a serious crisis of the resource, especially for SP Jain, given that the same option is also Deputy Director of Dubai. “This is probably a lot more pressure on resources, therefore we are in the process of the Faculty employs more,” said Shrikant

Developing countries can jubelnd, impedes investment and competition from registration issues on the agenda of the WTO in Cancun. But it is perhaps too early to celebrate.

In an article in schools, the former Secretary General of Finance of India and WTO negotiators in the Uruguay Round, Mr. SP Shukla, reminds us, as in December 1988, at ministerial level in Montreal had the same divided on the issue of patents.

But, he said, in Montreal, “the Government of India has failed bilateral pressures, particularly from the USA, withdrew its opposition and agreed in April 1989 on the material aspects of property rights intellectual in the negotiations … The seeds of the WTO system, coercive measures, which in 1995 were sown in April 1989, ironically, soon after, and despite the success of manoeuvre at the Montreal meeting. “Mr. Shukla warns that the USA are enormous bilateral pressures on Brazil, China, India and South Africa to cancel its victory of Cancun.

Furthermore, continue to invest part of the WTO system. The study groups formed on these issues during the year in Singapore in 1997. It is only that the study groups are not yet in “negotiations”. This situation will prevail until an explicit resolution of deposit investments of the WTO is adopted.

Developing countries have been able to maintain investments of the WTO in Cancun, only because of the intransigence of developed countries on the issue of agricultural subsidies. They asked for concessions in agriculture in exchange for the inclusion of one or more of the Singapore issues at the WTO. Rich countries, particularly the USA, could not, because this compromise on the presidential elections in the USA in 2004. But it can accept this compromise in the future. This is not an advantage for poorer nations, such as the role of agriculture in the global economy has dropped dramatically. According to the World Development Report, the share of agriculture in the GDP of rich countries is 6 per cent in 1960 to less than 1 per cent in 2001. And for developing countries, it has fallen by 48 per cent to 23 per cent.

Thus, the reluctance of rich countries for agriculture is really with emotion. Economically, they have little to lose and much to gain in agriculture, in exchange for investments. Indeed, the collapse of Cancun, it is easier for the rich an internal consensus to “try” Agriculture in such an exchange.

It is necessary to change our strategy proactively so that we can end the small gains in agriculture and large losses on the Singapore issues. We must ask for cross-border trafficking of individuals instead of seeking concessions in agriculture.

In both rich and poor nations are poor towards poverty reduction. The rich say that the welcome is investment, transfer of capital in poor countries in order to facilitate and increase their wealth and reduce poverty. That can not happen because:

– World capital can no longer travel to poor countries;

– The long-term exposure to repatriate profits May débilitent economies and

– The predatory nature of multinational kill national entrepreneurship and an economy dependent. On the other hand, poor countries feel that agriculture, the opening of their open new markets, leading to higher prices for their agricultural products and improving their conditions of farmers. This should not happen again, because:

– Prices for agricultural products would decline as the growing competition between poor countries;

– There are limited opportunities for investment in agriculture, and therefore low potential to generate high incomes.

– The share of agriculture in the economy is declining.

These links doubtful on improving the prosperity must be abandoned. Eminent economist Mancur Olson showed that the increase in world income would be equally, if not more, by the free movement of natural persons as the free movement of capital. Some difficulties are noteworthy in this regard.

First, it is said that a multilateral agreement on free movement of labour allows free access to undesirable elements as terrorists. This can be processed into a right to deny access to certain people or groups. The USA, for example, can say it does not give free movement of certain groups.

The development of India Mr. NK need to take up the challenge to ensure that growth is just a meeting of stakeholders on the growth of multi-national Indian said. Participation in the two-day national conference organized by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) Business School, leader noted that during the Indian MNC can not find growth in itself a problem, Charts real challenge was just to success.

Among the measures proposed by experts, the promotion of competitive international industry has been enhanced regime, measures to strengthen the currency of India and respect international recognized quality standards.

K. Pandia Rajan, director, Ma faith Management Consultants, opened the conference on “multi-national Indian - Blazing New Trails”. A.V. Sivarama Prasad, Vice President (HR), KCP Biotech, R. Ramasubramanian, President, Sundaram brake linings and K. Srinivasan, Director General, Carborundum Universal also spoke.

About 50 delegates visit the meetings organized under the growing phenomenon in India of multinationals and their impact on the management of culture and education.

The last day of the conference will discuss topics such as Business Process Re-engineering of globalization, cross-cultural and professional challenges and solutions, as B are schools to cope with future challenges.

T. Justice Meena Kumari, a judge of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday, preferably privatization of electrical distribution was to be done, as in the case of electricity generation.

“This may be another reform,” she said recalling that some countries were already familiar with the concept a try. She said that if countries are experimenting with the concept has been a great success, has been replicated by others for a competitive and efficient distribution system.

The judge was the conclusion of providing the service of God sends to the two-day UGC-sponsored national seminar on “Power reforms: challenges and strategies” in the SV-university, under the auspices of the Department of Management Studies .

She described the transmission and distribution (T & D) as the worst defeats in spite of staggering Indian power scene, as it does about 22 per cent, against the world qualifying standard of around 7 per cent.

She said the problem was compounded by the use of “primitive” and voltage transformers tension which is obsolete waste and damage accessories. The judge felt in this context, over the medium-Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bangalore, had a very decisive role in resolving the problem by providing high-voltage direct current (HGÜ). T. Siddaiah, Head, Department of Management Studies, CSR presidency. V.R.C. Krishnaiah, Department of Law, welcomed guests at the seminar director, p. Durga Rao, a proposal for a vote of thanks.

The urgent need of creating awareness for cyber-laws and more stringent measures against cyber-crime was also discussed within the group, to which the final year students of the AVC College of Engineering to Mayiladuturai recently.

A large number of final year students from various sectors including the United Nations, CSE, IT, mechanical and ice have participated in panel discussions, under the direction of Soft Skills Development Forum of the school was inaugurated as Arun V. Parwate, Principal of the college.

Dr S. Rama Nathan, Director, Department of Management Studies at the university, coordinated, to suspend the procedure, said that a number of themes such as “roadmap to success”, “cyber-laws - the conscience and its implementation implement, “” technological innovations are not for the conduct of war, but for the welfare of mankind, “the fruit of 58 years of ‘freedom’,` composition and the need for ‘ Indian cricket team, “dot evil in society and the role of media in the Indian economy Scenario” were taken for group discussions.

Pupils and students, emphasizes the need for more stringent measures against persons, cyber-crime and pointed out that many of them were not yet known, cyber-laws and awareness should be created.

Regarding technological innovation, students felt that means, to improve the lifestyle of man and should never be used for the destruction of goal.

Of the 58 years of free countries, students believe that the commitment and availability was the need of the hour. Pupils and students at the Yeoman services provided by both the pressure and visual media of the Indian economy scenario. The discussions are completed by the stimulation of a stress management training for players of Indian cricket and to prevent the threat dot evil in society.

Mr. Rama Nathan consult the main points of discussions. Past, R. Raman Jaya, training and internship Officer of the university, welcomed the collection.

The volunteers of the NSS Naina Mohamed College, Aranthangi in Pudukottai district, a special two-day camp was recently vice-president of the College, R. Kabilan. The volunteers are works such as removing waste, close the potholes on the local road, etc. The head of the section of operation to teaching economics, R. Sathru Sangara Velsamy, welcomed informatics and professor, R. Sumathi proposed a vote of thanks.

As always, you professionals are faced with the problem of deciding whether or not to join higher education or remotely via the campus mode. They asked the settings in different perspectives.

As an engineer, you have decided, in the field of materials management, which is encouraging. As fresh diploma, you need to examine the program at regular intervals with the Indian Institute of Materials Management (IIMM)

It could be graduation diploma in regular Materials Management (GDMM), which is managed by the Human Resource Development Ministry for the purpose of obtaining staff to senior posts and services in the central government. At the end of the program, you can exercise, as an MBA (Material Management) as a regular / student correspondence lateral entry into the system, which lasts one year. Under this plan, you’ll be able to make a mark. MP Bhoj Open University is recognized by the UGC, IAU (Association of Indian Universities) and AICTE and, therefore, there is no discomfort in monitoring the course by IIMM. In Bangalore, you can contact the Indian Institute of Materials Management, 304, 3rd Floor, Mittal Towers, No. 6, MG Road, Bangalore-560 001 Tel: 25327251/25327252.

Hewlett-Packard announced India, the development of its campus on the Move “initiative today to promote their products and solutions portfolio, under the earth the first educational institutions.

As part of the initiative, HP, while running a series of roadshows, including coverage of the main cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Salem, Trichy and other regions.

Talking about the initiative, P Raghuraman, Country Manager - Business Notebooks, Hewlett Packard, India said: “We agree with HP, the gap between what industry and academia who teach. Thanks to our success “Campus on the Move” initiative, we hope that with major universities across the country, improvement of school curricula so that they can to meet the needs of industry. ”

Under this initiative, HP offers the retail window for educational institutions for the implementation of information technology infrastructure, laptops, desktops and workstations, simple option of leasing measure After-Sales and Support. Many institutions have benefited from the implementation of “Campus with a wireless laptop with students to learn from anywhere on campus.

In recent years one of laptops, HP has delivered some of the most prestigious institutions such as symbiosis of India, Wellingkar, Manipal, Amity Business School, IIPM, Kalinga, Xavier’s Institute of Management, Sri Mahavir Jain, etc.