AICTE will conduct first CMAT for admission year 2014-15 in a five days window beginning September 26, 2013. The registration for first CMAT of the season begins on July 3, 2013 and the last date for the same is August 21, 2013, AICTE said in a notification.

From this testing season, AICTE has added test venues in five foreign countries including Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Kabul (Afghanistan), Kathmandu (Nepal), Lagos (Nigeria), and Dubai (UAE).

Management Development Institute Gurgaon has inducted new batches under its different management programmes including flagship PGPM, PGP-HRM and PGP-IM for the academic session 2013-15, during a 5-day ceremony at its campus.

With digital communication increasingly becoming order of the day, Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA) has started a specialization in Digital Communications Management for its flagship 2-year Post Graduate Diploma in Management Communications (PGDM-C) from this academic session.

According to the institute, the new course in Digital Communication will be the part of the current academic year, but will be applicable to the students once they reach the second year of their PGDM(C).

Indian Management Conclave (IMC) Awards 2013 has received huge response with over 50 nominations in different Awards categories entering from across B-schools in India for the first time Awards instituted by MBAUniverse.com, the hosts of Indian Management Conclave.

The IMC Awards 2013 winners, which will be decided by an eminent jury, will showcase their unique ideas initiatives implemented at their respective B-schools through a presentation at IMC Conference 2013. The IMC 2013 Awards will be held in conjunction of IMC Conference 2013 on August 2-3 in New Delhi.

The concluding day of 4-day orientation programme at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur witnessed top corporate leaders addressing the new batch and exhorting the students to be ready to learn the management theories along with its applicability in the fast changing market places.

The 4-day orientation programme for the 4th batch of Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) and the 2nd batch of Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) at IIM Raipur ended on June 30, 2013.

SVKMs Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) will conduct NMIMS Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) 2014 in almost one and a half month window beginning 5th October and ending 18th December 2013. The registration for NMAT 2014 will open from 4th July for admissions in its School of Business Management for academic session 2014-16. The registration for NMAT-2014 opens from July 4, 2013.

Ministry of HRD has set up a committee to probe into the inflated CAT score scam and fix accountability for the discrepancies that has caused major embarrassment for Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and marred the credibility of the most prestigious MBA entrance exam used by many top non-IIMs for admission process also. In an official statement, IIMs said that a special committee has been set up by the HRD Ministry to probe into the different aspects of the inflated CAT scores published on the official CAT website.

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Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon is amongst the top non-IIMs which are hit by Inflated CAT Score Scam. Dr Mukul P Gupta, Director, MDI Gurgaon, responding to MBAUniverse.com queries, termed the inflated CAT score episode a failure on part of CAT authorities and IIMs and said a just process of recovery is now required.

MBAUniverse.com was first to report this scam on June 24, 2013 at 11 AM. After MBAUniverse.com published the report, some of the top B-schools have already initiated action.

Directors, Deans and Presidents of top PGDM institutions met Union Minister of HRD Dr M M Pallam Raju on June 26, 2103 in New Delhi and sought more autonomy for them towards making India a hub for management education.

The PGDM delegation was led by Fr Abraham, Director, XLRI, Prof Joe Philip, President, XIME, Prof Indira Parikh, President, FLAME, Dr G Viswanathan, President, EPSI and Dr H Chaturvedi, Alternate President, EPSI.