Coming Soon to a GMAT Near You: More Security

Would-be MBA students getting ready to take the GMAT might be in for a little surprise when they show up at the testing center. In addition to all the usual security measures—including video monitoring and the computer adaptive test itself—test takers will soon be asked to submit to a new one: a biometric device that [...]

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IIM Lucknow Announces the 4th General Management Programme

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. [...]

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Working professionals keen on upgrading skills

In today’s highly competitive corporate world, working professionals are keen to upgrade their skills and qualifications like never before. SP Jain Center of Management, a business school that offers programs of intensive management business, both working for executives as well as full-time students, recently sought applications for its Executive MBA second batch of sixty and [...]

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IIM-C Faculty companies pay cut, the weight of options.

Kolkata, April 8. Faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) are companies in their opposition to the Union Human Resource Development Ministry’s move to reduce taxes.
Prof. Asish K. Bhattacharyya, Dean (planning and management) of IIM-C and spokesperson of the Faculty, told Business Line, the Faculty of the opinion that the tax was [...]

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IIM-C faculty to contest validity of board meeting.

THE faculty council of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) on Monday decided to move the Calcutta High Court challenging the validity of the 164th meeting of the board of governors, which took place on March 26, 2004.
Prof Asish Bhattacharyya, Dean (Planning & Administration) and spokesperson of the faculty council, told newspersons that the [...]

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Infosys’ MURTHY receives most admired Business Leader.

Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited (BSE: INFY) NR Narayana Murthy was presented on Saturday, the “brand-comm’s most admired Business Leader Award.
brand-comm, leading brand consultancy, advertising and relations company, said that after its third annual b-school study, Murthy has been admired for the most visionary and its value for the third consecutive year, [...]

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IIM-B weighing options to make good the loss.

NOW that the IIMs have more or less ruled out a legal recourse against the HRD Ministry’s directive to impose a fee cut in their PGP (Post-Graduate Programmes) courses, the country’s premier business schools are busy considering various options to make up for this revenue loss.
“One of the options before us is to increase the [...]

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Banks should be compatible with the global industry reference

The Chief General Manager Thiruvananthapuram Regional Office of the National Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development Bank (Nabard), Mr. Shekhawat Brunswick, said that the problems emerging in the banking sector can not be solved with solutions today.
Delivering his speech at a national seminar on “reforms of the banking sector in the new era” here recently [...]

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Duisburg is cheap, but must pay it?

It will make wonders, but the fact is that tuition at the University of Delhi (DU) remained the same for over six decades.
“Each day, students pay R 30 for a cup of coffee and R 10 for cars, parking. But the monthly charges remained in the studies R 15 and R 18 for Undergraduate and [...]

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CAT’s likely to be out of the bag today.

Jan 2 - KOLKATA, India - India’s next batch of aspiring managers are gearing up for the first step towards achieving their goals as the CAT (Common Admission Test) 2006 results are all set to be declared on Tuesday. Of the 180,000-plus students who sat for the exams this year, only some 1500 will finally [...]

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