 The protests from students and management institutes over the arbitrary change of eligibility criteria for the Maharashtra MBA entrance test have forced the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) to defer their implementation until the next academic year.
The announcement will cheer thousands of students who were outraged by the last-minute change. As reported in DNA, the notification raised the eligibility bar by only allowing students who have earned a full-time bachelor’s degree with over 50% marks. The new criteria were announced on January 18, with barely a month to go for the test, scheduled on February 21.
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 A market research firm, The Nielson Company, recently conducted a survey for the same and concluded that, the average salary expectation this year is about 14.6 lakh per annum for the country’s major schools.
Students of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) in the last batch (2009) got at an average Rs.13 lakh per annum as a domestic offer and this time, it is 13% higher than that of the last year's. The companies have resumed to expansion plans this
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 Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), India's premier management school's NMAT, the management admissions aptitude test, will soon be computer-based, thus making a transition to a new age digital method, later this month. For the first-ever computer based NMAT, NMIMS has partnered with Pearson VUE to conduct the exam in 19 cities in India and 11 countries outside India between January 30 and February 8, 2010.
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 The wait is still not over for thousands of management aspirants who appeared for the first-ever Computer-Based Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009. The results of CAT 2009, an entrance examination for admission to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other reputed B-Schools of the country, was earlier scheduled to be announced on January 22, 2010.
The results, will however, now be announced in the third week of February, the official CAT website said. The first phase of CAT 2009 was conducted from November 28 to December 8, 2009.
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Adding yet another plume to its cap of accolades gathered worldwide, the prestigious Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has now become the 'Largest University in the World' according to UNESCO. Writing on its website -- www.unesco.org -- UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova said, ''Enrolments of nearly three million students and networks across the country, making the best use of Information Communication Technology (ICT), IGNOUs accomplishments are recognised worldwide.
''Nearly three million students across 34 countries study at IGNOU which is also Indias National Resource Centre for Open and Distance Learning and a world leader in distance education. Through its 21 schools of study, 59 regional centres, 2,300 learner support centres and some 52 overseas centres, the university offers certificate, diploma, degree and doctoral programmes, comprising around 1,500 courses.
''It also provides access to sustainable and learner-centred education and training to all through quality, innovative and needs-based programmes at affordable costs, thus reaching out to the disadvantaged. ''It promotes, coordinates and regulates the standards of education offered through open and distance learning in India,'' said Ms Bokova on website.
While IGNOUs staff consist of 380 faculty members and academic staff at its headquarters and regional centres, some 36,000 counsellors from conventional institutions of higher learning and professionals from different spheres are associated with it.
Also, with the launch of 'EduSat' (a satellite dedicated only to education) in 2004, and the establishment of the Inter-University Consortium, IGNOU has ushered in a new era of technology-enabled education.
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