Articles in AICTE
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai is planning to increase student intake in its Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from the current 180 to 240 starting 2013. The institute is awaiting a green signal from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for the expansion. “SP Jain had applied to […]
The list of b-schools that would accept the Common Management Aptitute Test (CMAT) in 2012 has been released by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on the CMAT website. Notable schools from the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2011 accepting CMAT scores according to the list are Asia Pacific Institute of Management (New Delhi), Goa […]
SS Mantha, Chairman, AICTE As the day for the ‘controversial’ Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) 2012 nears, PaGalGuY.com met up with the man behind it all, SS Mantha, Chairman of the All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Brimming with optimism, he said that CMAT was an enabling provision for aspirants and parents, which would […]
If questions on factor cost and marginal cost in the Common Management Admissions Test’s (CMAT) trial test on December 12 left you flummoxed, relax. The test was only to give MBA aspirants an idea as to how a CMAT paper would look like. Though CMAT’s website clearly said, “A trial test will be available from […]
The notification and dates of the Common Management Admissions Test (CMAT), the new MBA entrance exam launched by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE’s) are finally public. There are nearly two months to go for the exam, which will be conducted from February 20 to 28, 2012 in two shifts across 61 cities […]
The IITs’ (Indian Institutes of Technology) loss is GMAT’s (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) gain. With the canning of the Joint Management Entrance Exam (JMET), regulatory body All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has added the GMAT to the six acceptable entrance tests for admissions to the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) offered at […]
The first version of the MBA entrance exam launched by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is scheduled to be held in February 2012. Called the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), it is little more than two months away and there is already hectic work in progress at the AICTE headquarters in New […]
The Toronto-based Schulich School of Business of the York University may not wait for the passage of the bill allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in higher education before it starts operations in India. The Canadian school, which has been working on setting up a campus in Hyderabad in collaboration with the GMR Group will instead […]
Here’s a story offering insights into how the seemingly inefficient practices of a regulatory body can affect the quality and price of education. The lament of business schools and engineering colleges in the middle of every year is usually directed at the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for not approving their courses, or […]
If the court battle this year between the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and management institutes confused students and delayed admission processes in many schools, expect far more delays and confusion this year. None of the parties engaged in the legal battle over the controversial AICTE circular seems to be in a mood […]