The move comes alongside NIITs strategic alliance with global education testing major ETS, announced last week.

Speaking to MBAUniverse.com, Mr Vijay Thadani, CEO, NIIT said, India needs crores of young people in sectors like IT/ ITES, retail, banking and insurance. English language skills are a major bottleneck for candidates. Evolv will address that need.

Great Lakes Institute of Management has signed a MoU with the School of Business and Management, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) whose Executive MBA program was ranked #2 globally by FT in 2015. The MoU was signed by Dr. Bala V Balachandran - Founder, Dean and Chairman, Great Lakes Institute of Management and Dr. Jitendra Singh Dean, School of Business and Management, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology at HKUSTs campus in the presence of faculty and members of the institute.

The placement season began on January 7 and will go until end of February. PGPX follows rolling placements process, as all jobs offered are lateral in nature and companies invite candidates to their headquarters for final discussions, informs IIM-A. These lateral appointments are at middle and senior management roles in Indian and foreign companies.

Students from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad recently battled it out over not the usual case-studies and quizzes, but thirteen games like cricket, tennis and swimming. IIM Bangalore played host to the sports contingent from IIM Ahmedabad for Sangharsh08, the second edition of the Annual IIMA-IIMB Sports Meet between January 11-13, 2008.

According to the information shared by TDA with MBAUniverse.com, the last date for receiving filled in application forms for 9th Post Graduate Diploma in Development Management: 2008-2010 has been extended to January 31, 2008. Earlier the last date of submission was January 20th, 2008.

TDA is a joint academic venture of Sir Ratan Tata Trust and DHAN Foundation. DHAN Foundation is a development organisation working towards bringing significant changes in the lives of the poor through innovative themes. TDA engaged in Development Management Education, Training and Research.

One of Indias leading test-prep company, IMS Learning Resources shared with MBAUniverse.com how their students have fared in CAT 07, and what inputs it is offering for the GD/PI rounds. According to IMS Learning, more than 2000 IMS students have got calls from IIMs. Whats more, four IMS students have hit the jackpot and have got 100 percentiles in CAT 07.

IMS Learning told MBAUniverse.com, The calls have started pouring in. We are still in the process of collating the data of all our students. As of now we have more than 2000 calls.

The PPOs aretranslating into one-third of the batch getting placed much before the formal Placement season.

The offers ranged across a varied spectrum of verticals from Strategy Consulting to Investment Banking, Corporate branding to Human Capital, and Technology Management to Corporate Finance.

The contest is an endeavor to bring together the knowledge and analytical skills of supply chain management students and corporate executives across India in the form of a case study competition, informs SIIB. The case would be based on a real life supply chain problems faced by industries. This year the automobile sector is chosen for the case study.

The new initiative is aimed at enhancing employability of graduates and providing competitive advantage to Indian organizations, says NIIT.

The Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) each with the University of California, Berkeley, USA and the University of Cambridge, UK. The primary objective of TISES is to provide international students a chance to work in community initiative projects of the Tata Group in India and thereby promote international understanding, says the Tatas.