| XLRI receives good response for pre-placement offers | 17-AUG-09 |
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| The XLRI School of Business and Human Resources has received a good response for its pre-placement offers (PPOs) and pre-placement interviews (PPIs) for the 2008-2010 batch. Organisations that have provided placement offers to the students include FMCG major Hindustan Unilever and general management companies like TAS, Aditya Birla group, L&T and WNS. |
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| Slow pre-placement season at B-schools | 27-JUL-09 |
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| It’s nearing the end of July and time for Indian B-schools to start getting pre-placement offers (PPOs) or pre-placement interviews (PPIs) from companies. |
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| B-schools hike fees further on account of faculty pay hike | 27-APR-09 |
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| On the heels of the fee hike by the premier Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), second-rung B-Schools, too, have hiked their fee from anywhere between 10 and 50 per cent this year. For most non-IIMs, the increase in fee this year follows the hike in salaries of University Grants Commission (UGC) scale faculty members. |
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| Executive education sees poor response, lower salary offers | 13-APR-09 |
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| Executive education, where organisations rather than individual students generally foot the bill, has been hit hard as corporate budgets come under ever tighter scrutiny. However, while number of students being sponsored by a company for management education has seen a drop of nearly 20 per cent, placements for these executives is still better off compared to the two-year post graduate programme (PGP) students. |
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| 'The placement scenario has been difficult this year' | 13-APR-09 |
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| XLRI Jamshedpur has hiked its two-year post-graduate-programme (PGP) fee by around 18 per cent for the 2009 batch onwards. In an interview with PRADIPTA MUKHERJEE, the institute’s director E Abraham, S J, said the institute this year will focus on initiating collaborations with international universities and offering more incentives to encourage research studies. |
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| XLRI achieves 100% placement | 28-MAR-09 |
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| XLRI School of Business & Human Resources, Jamshedpur (XLRI Jamshedpur), has completed its final placement procedure with all its 180 students getting placed. |
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| Devangshu Datta: Adultery matchmaking | 28-FEB-09 |
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| Bodhi Tree, a rock group composed of XLRI alumni, often performed the iconic “GMD”. That song, with its untranslatable and obscene refrain, is the anthem of Indian B-Schoolers. It references the woes of an MBA with a low GPA, who ends up selling soap in rural markets. |
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| Tepid response to tier-II B-school placements | 27-JAN-09 |
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| Lateral and final placements at tier-II management institutes this year have been lacklustre as companies opt out of placements or are unsure of how many candidates they would look at hiring this year. The broad trends so far include fewer offers compared to last year, and similar salaries instead of a traditional 30 per cent increase year-on-year. |
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| Andhra Pradesh govt woos IIMs for campus in state | 24-OCT-08 |
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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 |
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| XLRI to help market tribal and rural crafts | 23-SEP-08 |
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| Students at the Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur plan to link tribal artisans and rural craftsmen with the mainstream market, to increase margins. |
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| Recruiters lap up XLRI grads | 11-APR-08 |
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| XLRI Jamshedpurs general management programme (GMP), the one-year full-time executive MBA course, has concluded a successful season of placement for its 2008 batch.
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| XLRI Seminar | 20-FEB-08 |
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| XLRI Jamshedpur, in association with The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, organised XLRI Finance Seminar 08.
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