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2 février 2011

Business schools looking East

By Li Xiang (China Daily) BEIJING - While the world economy is still recovering at a sluggish pace, Western business schools are expanding rapidly and many of them are pursuing growth in emerging countries vigorously as a way to balance their budgets....
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26 janvier 2011

More Germans Are Opting to Study Abroad

By Judy Dempsey BERLIN — In a country once known for its lack of mobility for students and employees, more and more students are deciding to study abroad. According to a report published this month by the German Welfare Service, an agency financed by...
12 janvier 2011

Top US B-school grads could take more than 10 years to recoup investment

By IBTimes Staff Reporter A recent study by Bloomberg Businessweek magazine ranking full-time MBA programs on the basis of returns on investment has found that graduates of the Class of 2010 in the top five US schools (according to the magazine's earlier...
28 juillet 2010

An Honor Code for MBAs

By Oliver Staley Can getting graduates to promise to do no harm rein in the excesses of the financial markets? The global financial crisis, Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme and scandals at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have heightened the need for...
15 décembre 2010

Salaries of fresh MBAs up a huge 160%: Average pay hike for graduates from top B-schools saw an increase of 119.7 per cent over

December 14, 2010 By Shuchita Kapur For three years now, professionals have been moaning about stagnant pay levels, no bonuses, less perks and a dull job-front but fresh graduates from top business schools have seen their starting salary surge by as much...
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27 octobre 2010

Business schools face EMBA challenge

By Della Bradshaw In May this year, all eyes in the medical world were on a Spaniard as he stepped in front of the television cameras. Known only as Rafael, he was one of the first people in the world to have undergone a large-scale facial transplant,...
30 juin 2010

Is it time to revisit the traditional MBA?

by Priyanka Golikeri A two-year full-time MBA degree is at the crossroads. If changes are not made in quick succession, doomsday will not be far ahead. That’s the message emanating from Srikant M Datar, David A Garvin and Patrick G Cullen’s Rethinking...
23 juin 2010

European Business Schools Set Sights on U.S.

By Alison Damast Over the past decade or so, European business schools have been aggressive about reaching out to the American market, doing everything from forming alliances with U.S. schools to launching student- and faculty-exchange programs. Now a...
16 juin 2010

Business school to expand in Africa

By Janine Erasmus The highly regarded University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) is to offer its popular Management Development Programme in a further three African nations - students in Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe will soon be able to attend the...
2 juin 2010

A New Regulatory Agency Raises Concerns Among Academics in Australia

By Janaki Kremmer Sydney To help oversee what some see as an confusing higher-education system, Australia is setting up a new agency to regulate the country's colleges and universities. But academics and other officials involved agree that much work needs...
19 mai 2010

MBA recruitment and salaries stronger than expected

Despite the global meltdown, MBAs have continued to attract the attention of employers globally. Their emoluments have only gone up, notes Nunzio Quacquarell. Mauro Guillen, dean of the Lauder Institute at the Wharton School, observes: “MBAs today understand...
12 mai 2010

Russian Education Endowments Lag Behind

By Tatyana Martyanova / Vedomosti Almost three years after the law on endowment funds was passed, about 50 such funds have been created in Russia, with the value of roughly 70 percent of them totaling 2.7 billion rubles ($90 million) according to an estimate...
5 mai 2010

In India, Setting the Terms of Engagement for Foreign Universities

May 5, 2010 By Shailaja Neelakantan New Delhi On Tuesday, India 's prime minister sent Parliament the latest version of a long-discussed bill intended to let foreign universities set up shop here, but the requirements set out in the legislation seem likely...
28 avril 2010

Russia to boost university science

But can it break the dominance of the Russian Academy of Sciences without breaking the research base? By Quirin Schiermeier Technological leadership, a matter of national pride during the Soviet glory days, has become a distant memory in modern Russia,...
21 avril 2010

Latin America Hopes to Lift Global Profile

Chilean universities lead the way; others in region struggle against budgets and bureaucracy By Marion Lloyd Mexico City In 2008, when much of the world was deep in recession, Chile was rolling in revenue from its copper mines. Rather than invest the...
15 avril 2010

MBAs with a Social Conscience

By Francesca Di Meglio Many MBA applicants have a dream that one day businesses will rise up and live out the true meaning of their new creeds, which include bottom lines that do more than fatten the wallets of shareholders. They have a dream that one...
30 mars 2010

Students Still Want an MBA, But Not With Ethics

A new report, titled Tomorrow’s MBA, has found that prospective students are still keen on the MBA qualification despite its reputation taking a knock during the banking crisis. However, asked what content was valuable to them as part of an MBA study,...
23 mars 2010

Foreign Education Bill finally gets Cabinet nod

BS REPORTER / New Delhi, Mumbai/ Bangalore After several years of debate, the Union Cabinet today unanimously approved a Bill that would allow foreign education providers to set up campuses in India and offer degrees. A Bill to this effect was first introduced...
16 mars 2010

The Spanish business school and the Universities

By Carmen Sanchez-Silva Do we have bad and good universities business schools in Spain? If you stop to look at the world's most influential ranking clearly would draw that conclusion. In the renowned Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ranking, which measures...
9 mars 2010

Why French are skipping the Sorbonne for Britain

Students desert French universities in protest against strikes and militancy By John Lichfield in Paris French students are deserting the Sorbonne because of the once élite university's reputation for militancy, strikes and abandoned lectures. They are...
1 mars 2010

Donation to Yale sparks debate

Editor: Zhang Xiang A Chinese graduate's record-setting $8,888,888 donation to his school at Yale University has stirred wide debate at home. While some say it's up to Zhang Lei to do as he likes, others question why he didn't donate to his alma mater...
8 février 2010

Tuition-Free University Gains a Following

A year since its formation, the online University of the People has attracted several hundred students, a team of top academic advisers, and growing support worldwide By Alison Damast One of the higher education world's boldest experiments began in September...
1 février 2010

Why europe based economists prefer to study/work in US?

By Amol Agrawal One-third of the faculty of Harvard University’s economics department hails from Europe. At the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, half of the finance department’s faculty is European. And these schools aren’t alone: European...
25 janvier 2010

The future of the MBA and the MBA of the future

Juanma Roca The indirect good news of the global crisis has been, somehow, not only to challenge the pillars of the global financial system, but also to question the personal and collective action of those responsible for driving the system, I mean, bank,...
28 décembre 2009

A testing year for students, despite reforms

From scrapping of Class X boards and setting up of 7 new IIMs to disappointing placements and an unsuccessful computer-based CAT — students saw it all Although 2009 brought cheer to the education sector with the announcement of a slew of reforms, it would...
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