In other words, B-schools should foster and contribute in creating the next-practices rather than merely study the so called best practices emerging from the western world. Thats the theme of the talk delivered by Dr. Uday Salunke Director, Welingkar Institute of Management at AIMA Directors conclave on February 17, 2009.

The convention will be addressed by leading academicians, policy makers and corporate sector executives.

The Convention is being dedicated to the memory of late Dr. I. G. Patel, formerly Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Director of IIM Ahmedabad and Director of London School of Economics, UK, who was a member of AIM Board of Governors.

MBAUniverse.com presents the highlights on this topic from AIMAs Directors Conclave, held on February 17, 2008 in New Delhi.

While holding a panel discussion on the theme of Industry B schools: Bridging the Gap at the conclave, Dr CS Venkata Ratnam, Director, International Management Institute, New Delhi said, It is essential for every B-school to regularly invite people from industry to teach their students about the current trends and challenges which they are facing. Faculties should also understand the market needs from them so that they can create best fit managers.

The program is designed for the business leaders and managers, and is a key component of HEC Paris Executive Educations ongoing international development. Present in China since 2006, HEC now has a presence in Russia, where it will deliver the EMBA in one of the countrys foremost universities. Founded in 1724, St Petersburg State University started up its School of Management in 1993 to train Russian business leaders.

The report, a copy of which is available with MBAUniverse.com, has recommended substantial increase in number of seats at each IIMs. The report also acknowledges the severe faculty shortage at IIMs.

They are always ready to support the new generation entrepreneurs. Hence taking advantage, MBAs should become job creators, rather than job seekers.

MBAUniverse.com, Indias leading management portal, is presenting a series of authoritative features and interviews on the upcoming GD PI round. For this series, we spoke to Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, Faculty of Management Studies New Delhi and Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar seeking advice to MBA aspirants on the What, Why and How of GP PI round.

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However, industry alliances, differentiation and marketing will play a key role in success of education venture. These are the highlights from Ernst & Young report on Higher Education sector, released at the Edge Forum in New Delhi on February 9, 2009. Amitabh Jhingan, Partner Ernst & Yong India and author of the report, notes, The private sector is a key constituent of the higher education segment in India, accounting for more than a third of all higher education institutions and more than two third of all professional higher education institutions.

According to NIT-CMS, The core need of offering of CMSs MBA programme was to mould engineers into managerial professionals competent to meet national as well international challenges and to promote value based growth.The MBA Programme at CMS is a 2-Year, full time residential programme. The course curriculum is spread over 8 quarters of about 2 months each. The core curriculum is covered in the first 4 quarters.