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MCA ADMISSIONS : 2008-2011

Applications are invited from candidates, who have 55% and above marks in graduation and a valid CAT score. The candidates are required to come to SCMS Campus at Muttom, near Apollo Tyres Jn., with the original marklists and the fee amount on any working day till 30.10.2008 between 9.30 AM – 4.30 PM and complete the admissions procedure.

Fees : Candidates securing admission after verification of original certificates have to remit the semester fee of Rs. 45,000.

Certificates:

The following certificates in original need be produced at the time of verification

Degree marklists
Plus 2 marklists
SSLC certificate
Mark List of State Entrance Examination and
Admit Card of Entrance Examination

Other certificates have to be produced on a later date at the College Office.

last date for applying is extended up to 30.10.2008.

MCA sessions are to begin with a series of Personality development programmes from 2nd November.

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Source: http://informationsinindia.blogspot.com/2008/10/scms-school-of-technology-and.html

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Aptitude test for admission to the programms at IBS Campuses

Website: www.ibsat.org

GMAT scores are also accepted.

MBA PROGRAM (2009-11) 2 YEARS PROGRAM

Eligibility: Graduation (50% and above)

EXECUTIVE PG PROGRAM (2009-10) 1 YEAR PROGRAM

Eligibility: Graduation(50% and above) and 3 years work experience at executive level.

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Source:  http://educationnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/10/ibsat-2008-mba-program-executive-pg.html

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BANGALORE: Ruling that the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) cannot expect to become fully independent of the government as they were established with public funds, the HRD Ministry-appointed committee to review the functioning of IIMs has expressed displeasure over the poor intake and also quality and quantity of research papers from these institutions. The five-member committee, headed by former Maruti Suzuki India chief R C Bharagava, has said the IIMs have not been able to expand their admission capacity for the MBA programme (PGP) adequately to match the rapidly increasing demand, both domestic and international. “The quality and quantity of research papers from IIMs have not been commensurate with the status of IIMs and have not enabled IIMs to become thought leaders,” the report states. Linking expansion to shortage of faculty, the report, which was submitted to the HRD Minister Arjun Singh last week, states that IIMs have not been able to attract enough faculty especially in the functional areas where there is demand from other sections. “The number of Ph.Ds getting qualified is smaller than the demand. The Boards, as well as the faculty of IIMs do not appear to have analysed the root cause of why this is happening or taken any steps to rectify the situation,” the report states. On the quality of research papers, the Committee has found that the IIMs have not been publishing enough in world class peer reviewed journals. “This is partly the result of faculty not devoting enough time to research and partly because the system does not adequately reward excellence in research,” it adds. On the role of IIM directors and the Board of Governors, the Bhargava Committee has lamented that directors have not been effective in being able to influence the government to provide resources and support the required changes. “In fact, our perception is that there is a lack of mutual confidence and trust between the IIMs and the government, and communication between the two has been less than adequate. There is a clear need to remedy this situation,” the report suggests. Even on the IIM Boards, the committee feels that they have not been effective in formulating and implementing strategies which could lead to the growth of the IIMs. Stating that the IIMs ought to figure in international rankings, the committee has set a target for the Big Three IIMs — Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta — to figure in the Top 50 rankings in international business journals by 2011.

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Source: http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=HRD+panel:+No+total+autonomy+to+IIMs&artid=c78FK7xijAg=&SectionID=7GUA38txp3s=&MainSectionID=fyV9T2jIa4A=&SectionName=zkvyRoWGpmWSxZV2TGM5XQ==&SEO=

Mathang Seshagiri

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Moscow School of Management

SKOLKOVO and Sberbank of Russia signed an agreement on granting SKOLKOVO a construction and development credit worth $245 million for the term of 10 years.

Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is a unique project of creating a new generation business school in Russia from scratch, which started in 2006 on the base of private-governmental partnership within the framework of the Education National Priority Project. The initiative of creating SKOLKOVO belongs to the representatives of Russian as well as international business. SKOLKOVO is financed by private investors; the project does not use governmental budget resources. The SKOLKOVO creation investment volume is estimated as $500 million.

The main directions of the SKOLKOVO initiative will be the implementation of MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Education programmes. SKOLKOVO’s main objective is the formation of business leaders and entrepreneurs, who will use their professional knowledge in dynamic market environment, such as Russia, India, and China.

Currently, the school campus is being constructed in the Odintsovo district of the Moscowregion. Despite that the construction has not been complete yet, the school

already carries out short-term Executive Education programmes and runs enrollment for the Executive MBA

programme that is due to start in January 2009. The campus opening is scheduled for the autumn of 2009. SKOLKOVO will be the first school in Russia to offer full-time MBA education

(with a full-time educational cycle 16 month long).

The credit was already part of the school’s financial model back in 2006. The credit arrangements project had been discussed for a year and was approved by The Sberbank of Russia Credit Committee and the Founding Partners of the school.

Mr. Herman Gref, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sberbank stated: ‘For Sberbank the granting of a credit to the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO – is one of the steps aimed at supporting long-term strategic projects which are important for the country’s future. We are carrying out the agreements that have been reached before. We are sure that SKOLKOVO will play its part in the formation of new managers and business leaders ready to work on rapidly changing markets. Today it is obvious how important these skills and this experience is – important not only for our country, but also for world economy.’

‘This is a hard time for the world economy. The fact that we have signed a credit arrangement with the biggest bank of Russia, an arrangement that has been discussed for a year, this fact proves that agreements previously discussed are not broken, even in the unstable circumstances of our country’, – said Wilfried Vanhonacker, Dean of SKOLKOVO.

‘For SKOLKOVO, the credit arrangement with the Sberbank of Russia – is a big responsibility, but it is also another proof of the financial effectiveness of the school, – said Andrei Volkov, Dean of SKOLKOVO. – The credit will be returned by means of the main school programs, and the constructing campus resources, and also by means of attracting new partners to this project. The total income of SKOLKOVO for less than 1.5 years of the Executive Education programmes reached $5 million, which fully corresponds with the financial model and the business plan of the school. We are sure that we will be able to return the credit in time’, – concluded Andrei Volkov.

Sberbank is the biggest bank of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, which holds about 30% Russian bank system assets, the main creditor of the national economy. The founder and the chief stockholder of Sberbank is The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (more than 60% of voting stocks). The bank has more than 200 thousand stockholders – natural and legal persons. The bank has the most expanded branch network in Russia: 17 territorial banks, more than 20 thousand branches and internal structural divisions, and bank subsidiaries in Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO is a joint project by major Russian and International business leaders. SKOLKOVO is a dynamically developing international business school with a vision based on a unique mix of three dimensions: entrepreneurial leadership, emerging markets and experiential learning.

Being realized in partnership with the government of the Russian Federation, SKOLKOVO is a part of the national priority projects programme, funded exclusively by private business. Dmitry Medvedev, the President of the Russian Federation is the Chairman of the SKOLKOVO International Advisory Board.

Since 2006 SKOLKOVO holds short term Executive Education programmes for senior executives and middle managers. Full-time MBA and Executive MBA will be open in 2009, admission for both programmes starts in autumn-2008.

Campus construction will be completed in 2009.

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Source: http://www.pr-inside.com/moscow-school-of-management-skolkovo-and-r878383.htm

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MBA in Biotechnology Management is a comparatively new course started only 3-4 years back in India. The course offers a lot of scope and advantage in terms of career prospects, enhancement of biotechnology industrial knowledge & applications to the students who are willing to contribute in the Biotech or Life Science industry. Very Few Universities in India are offering this 2 year full time program.

A candidate who is Graduate in Life sciences or Biotechnology and is also interested to work only in Biotechnology industry, the course can offer a lot to him. The course inculcates a right mixture of Biotechnology basics, industry knowledge and the management skills required to run/ work in a Biotechnology industry.

However at the same time any candidate who is not restricting himself / herself to work only for Biotechnology industry can find a general MBA course in Marketing, HR, Finance etc better at any point of time. The obvious reason being, he/ she have the increased number of job opportunities as they can apply in different industries.

Who all can go for MBA Biotechnology Course?
- MSc / BSc Biotechnology Graduates
- MSc / BSc Microbiology Graduates
- General B.Sc graduates
- B.Pharma

Colleges offering MBA Biotechnology course in India are as follows:
- Amity University
- Pune University
- Suryadatta Institute,Pune
- Mitcon Institute, Pune.

Biotechnology Industry and Career Opportunities
“The Indian Biotechnology industry is fast gaining ground. The sector comprises of over 325 companies generating revenues of about US $2 billion that are estimated to reach US $5 billion by 2010″ Source: India Brand Equity Foundation

A MBA Biotechnology Professional can find Job opportunities in various companies like:
- Pharma / Biotechnology Industry
- IT Life Sciences
- Bioinformatics Industry
- Research Institutes
- KPO’s
- Service industry
- Market Research Organisations
- Consulting Firms

The various job profiles offered that are being offered for a MBA Biotechnology professional are :

Business Development – This role is being offered in most of the pharma / Biotech organisations to a MBA Biotech professional where the person is required to develop the business by doing either B2B (Business to Business)marketing or B2C (Business to Customer) marketing. The role includes diverse activities which are performed for the development of their business.

Business Analyst –. The role is offered by IT Life science industry, KPO’s, Market Research organisation. A business analyst is responsible for analyzing the business needs of their clients & to help them identify business problems and propose solutions .They act as a liaison between their Healthcare / Life science Client and the Technical team of their organisation.

Product Management – The role is offered by various pharma companies and involves diverse activities performed in the interest of delivering a particular product to market. Like Product planning, product development, Product marketing, branding, promotion etc.

Research Analyst – The role is offered by various market Research organisations and KPO’s where the candidate is required to Confront and solve challenging strategic and tactical issues in marketing research. The role involves both Primary as well as secondary research.

Business Consultant – This role is offered by various consulting firms, KPO’s where the candidate is required to assist the client in technology implementation, strategy development, or operational improvement services. Consultants work in the direction of identification of problems, and serve to recommend more effective or efficient ways of performing business tasks.

Other roles which are also offered by various companies include that of Sales executive, marketing coordinator, marketing executive etc.

Thus to conclude one can say that a lot of job opportunities with varied growing roles & opportunities are available for a MBA Biotechnology professional but it is the candidate only who needs to decide which industry he wants to serve. Overall MBA Biotech is a good course with good career options but definitely not better than a general MBA.

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Source: http://learn2excel.blogspot.com/2008/10/mba-biotechnology-program.html

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Can India sustain revised growth levels of 6-7%? Is the government and the RBI doing enough to shield India from future financial meltdowns?

What role should India play to set up global governance of financial markets? These were some of the questions Dr Anup Sinha, professor of economics, IIM-C, sought to answer at a discussion on the global meltdown at the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry on Thursday.

To sustain growth of 6-7%, the government needs to initiate a lot of infrastructure and domestic public investments, said Sinha. “If our internal policies can focus on employment generation, the economy will generate a confidence that can keep growth at not less than 6% in two years unless there’s a global crash,” he added. Not surprisingly, he called for massive investment in education. “Let’s build many state and central universities the PM has been urging us to build,” he said.

Sinha also urged investments in the power sector in a big way.

The IIM professor said India should seriously think of playing a key role in global governance and protect the interests of the developing countries. But is the government doing enough to protect India from future meltdowns? “Till date, there has been a knee-jerk reaction to the crisis. We haven’t seen any long-term policy on how to prevent future meltdowns. Everyone’s talking about public investments and since we have some experience in this and there’s a huge gap in infrastructure, we should get into it in a big way,” said Sinha.

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Source:  http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Invest-in-education-to-sustain-growth–IIM-C-economist/377389/

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New Delhi, October 23 : The IIM Review Committee has suggested that the pan-IIM board’s secretariat should be within the HRD Ministry. It has slammed IIMs for not “reacting to the market need quickly enough”, said that IIM Board directors and chairmen have failed to be effective CEOs, pointed at a ‘lack of mutual confidence and trust between the IIM and the Government’, and recommended that a common interview be held for all IIMs.The Indian Express had earlier reported how the three member committee has made a series of recommendations that will amount to tighter Government control on the premier institutes. The committee has called for the creation of an overarching 15-member pan-IIM board reconstitution of all existing boards. It has said that Secretary, Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry, will be part of this Board.

With the Board’s office housed in the ministry, doubts over how much control the HRD Ministry will wield on IIMs are sure to be raised. The committee’s suggestion to re-constitute all IIM boards with the help of a committee headed by the HRD Secretary is an exercise that defeats the autonomy of IIM boards.

The committee has come down heavily on the IIMs in the ‘performance report’ and said that ‘if IIMs have not performed as well as they should have in some areas, it is necessary to take a close look at the roles played by the directors and their boards’. The report has said that ‘IIMs could not react to the market quickly enough. They were not able to expand their physical infrastructure or recruit faculty fast enough to meet this growth expectation’.

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Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Bring-pan-IIM-Board-under-HRD–panel/377263

Anubhuti Vishnoi

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PGDM OF SCMS
(Accredited and AIU recognised)
India’s first centrally airconditioned B.School Campus
No.1 in Kerala, 3rd Best in South India, 13th Best in Intellectual Capital Indian Management.
No.18 All India, A++ – Business India 2008

School of Communication and Management Studies (SCMS), Cochin, has invited applications for Admission to PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Management) – 2009 –2010, 19th Batch. And it has 330 seats.

PGDM ADMISSION ANNOUNCEMENT 2009-2010

ADMISSION 19th BATCH (330 Seats)

SPECIALIZATIONS:
Insurance and Banking
Retailing and Merchandising
Welath Management
HR, Finance
Marketing
Systems
ORM
International Management and Advertising Management

Aslso any other area which has job opportunities in any year.

ACCREDITATION: Guarantees all-round quality of a B-School, its research facilities, financial resources etc.

MBA EQUIVALENCE: Association of Indian Universities (AIU) has recognised their PGDM as equivalent to MBA

ISO CERTIFICATION: They are the first and only B-School with ISO certification for Quality Management teaching system.

BANKING: All business magazines have consistenlty rated them as one amonth best 25 B-Schools in India. Business India has rated them as A++ in 2008

INFRASTRUCTURE: They offer world class facilities – 50 full time faculty, a library with more than 21000 titles, 3 computer centers, 460 terminals and 24 hour leased line internet connectivity.

PLACEMENT: BUSINESS INDIA has featured them as unique in the matter of placement.

LEADERSHIP TRAINING: Recipient of Dewang Mehta Award for excellence in leadership training system.

ADMISSION PROCESS: CAT/MAT/ATMA score, GD and Interview

HOW TO APPLY:
For application and prospectus send a DD for Rs.950/- (in favour of SCMS-COCHIN) to the Director of Admissions. Their Application and details can be downloaded from the website also.

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Source: http://admissionsindia.blogspot.com/2008/10/pgdm-admission-announcement-2009-2010.html

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The Union minister for Human Resource Development, Arjun Singh, may have spoken of an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) for Hyderabad, but the Andhra Pradesh government is not leaving anything to chance.

After getting the approval from top-notch private institutes — including BITS Pilani, XLRI and Symbiosis — Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy has spoken to the managements of IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, to set up campuses in Hyderabad. It has also sent a proposal to the HRD ministry in this regard.

Reddy is understood to have spoken to the Chairman of IIM Bangalore’s governing council, Mukesh Ambani, to set up institute’s second campus in Hyderabad. Madireddy Pratap, Additional Secretary to the chief minister visited IIM Bangalore campus early this month and met the institute director Pankaj Chandra. The AP government is learnt to be gifting 100 acres of land towards this end.

“We have already got the approval of several top-ranked institutes in the country and are keen on bringing IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Bangalore in Andhra Pradesh. We have also spoken with the director of IISc Bangalore to set up their second campus here,” Pratap told Business Standard.

When contacted, Director of IIM-Bangalore Pankaj Chandra confirmed that officials from the Andhra Pradesh government had held discussions with him on establishing a campus in Hyderabad. “The Andhra Pradesh government has already sent a proposal for the same to the HRD ministry and is awaiting a response from them,” said Chandra.

Pratap further said the Andhra Pradesh government is working on offering 200 acres of land each to BITS and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), 40 acres to Symbiosis, 65 acres to Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), 90 acres to Narsee Monjee and 30 acres for IMT Ghaziabad to set up campuses in the state. He added the state would contribute in offering land, while the expense of setting up the campus would be borne by the institute.

The proposal assumes significance in the wake of the RC Bhargava committee’s observation that the IIMs should concentrate on expanding their presence within the country rather than abroad. It may be recalled that IIM Bangalore’s proposal to set up a campus in Singapore was shot down by the HRD ministry who asked them to change their Memorandum of Association (MoA). This might prompt IIM Bangalore to look at expanding within the country.

Institutes like IIM require an investment of around Rs 250-300 crore for a full-fledged campus. Similar is the case with private institutes. The BITS campus in Hyderabad, for instance, is being set up in an area of 200 acres and involves an investment of Rs 270 crore. Initially, the Hyderabad campus would induct 600 students but the intake is likely to go up to 2,500 in the next four years.

TIFR is planning to invest Rs 2,500 crore in the next 15 years in its proposed campus, which will come up at University of Hyderabad. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has been granted land in Ranga Reddy district in Andhra Pradesh.

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Source:  http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=338271&chkFlg=

Archana M Prasanna