Big Brother All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)s controversial circular pressing for vast changes in the sphere of business education received a further setback yesterday with the Bombay High court squashing most parts of the circular. This comes after Orissa High Court stayed the same circular last week, when a group of b-schools from […]

The Orissa High Court has granted a stay on the recent All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) circular, which pressed for sweeping changes in the business education space. The AICTE notification dated December 28, 2010 had not only placed a cap on fees charged by AICTE-affiliated MBA colleges across the country, but also made […]

A classic error that judicial courts are prone to is one where the paranoia over not allowing criminals to be let off the hook results in a lot of innocent people being put to trial. Statisticians call this unintentionally increasing ‘type 1’ errors (false positives) in the pursuit of reducing ‘type 2’ errors (false negatives). […]

Big brother AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) has been given just eight days by b-schools to modify the notification it issued on December 28, 2010 (pushing for sweeping changes in business education) or else face legal action. The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) has decided to march up the steps of the […]

Led by Dr. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram (G.K. Kalyanaram), a graduate of MIT Sloan School of Management and a well-recognized scholar and consultant, Amrita School of Business combines rigor and relevance in research and teaching. As graduates of Indian Institutes of Management, and prestigious Indian and US Universities including MIT, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University, […]

    With almost all the biggies done, one of the tests which attracts many of the test takers is the Maharashtra MBA/MMS CET which is to be conducted on the 27th of February 2011. The test is required for an admit into few of the prestigious b-schools in the country.   The Process:   […]

The latest All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) rules for PGDM programs in AICTE-approved b-schools has sent shock waves across the higher education canvas. The circular not only instructs doing away with important MBA entrance exams such as the XAT, ATMA or MICAT but ascertains that only CAT, MAT or any state government-conducted exams […]

About the Institute Skyline Business School (Skyline) was set up in 1996 with an aim to become one of the leading business schools in the country, preparing young and responsible managers. Today, the institute, through its commitment and foresight, provides a state-of-art learning environment to its students and facilitate them in building a successful career. […]

Unlike the Common Admissions Test (CAT) which went fully computer-based in 2009 and floundered, the other Management Aptitude Test (MAT) with a 2.5 lakh strong test-taking population (though spread over four tests in a year) decided to go digital more gradually. Held four times every year, the MAT is delivered in both the paper-based and […]

An interesting bit of information came to light during our conversation with the IIFT Registrar yesterday. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), which has its campuses at New Delhi and Kolkata too would have made its entrance test computer-based had it not been for the collapse of the system during the controversial CAT 2009. […]