Chennai’s Great Lakes Institute of Management sent in their placement report for the 2008-09 batch, reporting a 10% decrease in average salary and large-scale participation by small first-time companies, pretty much the same story as at other b-schools. Here is how the numbers stacked up: Number of students placed: 162Average salary: Rs. 8.7 Lakhs per […]

Doctors, economists, social scientists may soon be strutting out from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) but unfortunately business will continue as usual at the India’s b-schools. Theres been a lot of talk about the problems that higher education faces in India and what changes need to be made. The IITs are embracing these changes […]

The Daily Pennsylvanian reports that The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania has declared acceptance of GRE scores for admissions to their MBA program, effective the upcoming admission season. Now that each of the big three (Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB and Wharton) use GRE for admissions, it could proliferate the acceptance of the exam across […]

Reality shows can get you anything. From a spouse to an MBA. And yes you heard it right. In Singapore, 16 contestants are vying for an MBA scholarship of S$25,000 (Singaporean Dollars) in The Kaplan MBA challenge. Dont confuse it with The Apprentice which was for people who wanted to start a business. This is […]

The right to education bill is on the verge of being passed but teachers are still getting a raw deal. Faculty at central government institutes were supposed to get a large hike in salary after the sixth pay commission came out with its recommendations. The hike which was supposed to be implemented earlier this year […]

How do test strategies change when you have to read tough Reading Comprehension passages from a computer screen instead of paper? Here’s a small tutorial that proposes a interesting approach to making sense of complex passages in the new context of computer-based CAT and speed up your performance in this crucial section for CAT 2009. […]

Kapil Sibal, Indias HRD minister really has got the education authorities hopping around. First his plans of abolishing class ten board exams had all the state boards vigorously protesting and then his approval of the Yash Pal report had the UGC and AICTE up in arms. Its encouraging to hear suggestions, ideas and recommendations but […]

The Supreme Court ruled and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have got cracking on admitting more students. IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has recently announced that the batch size will increase from 318 to 407 in next years admissions. IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) had gone for a big increase in seats for this years admissions itself. These […]

Set right what you believe is wrong seems to be the motto of the Higher Education Forum started by Dr. A K Sengupta, Dean SIES College of Management Studies for regularization of higher education and ridding it off its corrupt practices. The Higher Education Forum or HEF was started as a Google Group in September […]

What the IIMs never revealed in their press releases, a question in the parliament unearthed. In a written reply to a question posed in Rajya Sabha today, the Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal said that only 497 students were recruited from all the six IIMs by multinational companies in 2009 compared to 920 […]