The higher education system in India is largest in the world in terms of number of institutes and the third-largest in terms of enrollments.

KIT: Private universities in India

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Consortium of Management Education (COME), an alliance of 52 unaided private business schools in Maharashtra, today announced the commencement of its Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for member institutes.

Business school consortium eyeing UP students

The ads are slick and the communication crisp. Procter &amp; Gamble is trying everything it can to draw the attention of the target audience who are anyway spoilt for choice.

P&G wakes up to man power

A cool cafe-cum-bar, designed in bright cheerful colours of orange, yellow and pink. Walls are adorned with witty quotations. For the gizmo freaks, the cafe has innovative themes like quirky I pad menu, video walls and touch screen gaming television.

Channel [V]'s cafenomics

Today, we see a significant gap between the industry demand for niche roles and supply of the same. Across B-schools, very few tend to meet these niche requirements of industry. It is high time companies took initiative themselves and launched sector-specific courses to make up for the existing gap.

Student's corner

Rising competition, market volatility and major corporate accounting scandals have opened the doors for actuarial graduates beyond the insurance sector. With more and more companies forming a beeline to hire students armed with the most recent knowledge of the market and products to secure their own future, actuaries is increasingly having an edge in the job market.

Risk assesors: A glimpse into the future

Practising cost and works accountants (CWAs), often considered poor cousins of chartered accountants, will see their fortunes soar following the recent government notification making cost audit mandatory for 14 selected industries.

Cost auditors call the shots

It&rsquo;s that time of the year when the global advertising industry descends on the French Rivera for the week-long Cannes Advertising Festival.

Will the lion roar for India?

When Ratan Tata said in an interview earlier this week that the four-year-old Tata Motors-Fiat joint venture &ldquo;has not been as active as we had thought&rdquo;, he finally confirmed what the market has been quite vocal about for the past few months.

Why Tata is worried about Fiat in India

The food &amp; beverage major is banking on markets such as India to fuel its next stage of growth.

Tang moves into Kraft's billion-dollar club

Conventional wisdom has it that the Indian middle class values price over almost any other attribute in its purchasing decisions and is relatively indifferent to environmental concerns. Ergo: the market for green brands and products is too small to consider. A recent global survey suggests that consumer goods marketers who continue to think this way are missing a big opportunity for growth.

Green signals from the middle class

Mahindra &amp; Mahindra (Mahindra) is now ready to go to town with its sedan, Verito. It has launched an ad campaign for the face-lifted version of the erstwhile Logan. The campaign will try to build new associations around the car to distance it from its predecessor sold by the Renault-Mahindra joint venture. While the first Logan campaign had stressed on the Renault pedigree, the new campaign for the Verito depicts the characteristics of its likely owner.

Mahindra & Mahindra: Moment of truth

In the second leg of its journey in India, Clarks Shoes is putting its best foot forward. The UK-based retailer, which re-entered India this year through a 50:50 joint venture with Future Group, launched its first store in April. It has five stores currently and plans to ramp up its footprint to 20 stores by the end of the year. While the focus will be on Mumbai and Delhi, the company is also eyeing Pune, Chandigarh, Bangalore and Hyderabad. In addition to exclusive outlets, the brand will retail through shop-in-shops and Metro shoe stores.

Clarks Shoes: Best foot forward

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Point-of-care testing (POCT) is defined as medical testing at or near the site of patient care. The driving notion behind POCT is to conduct the test conveniently and immediately for the patient.

KIT: Point-of-care testing

    The King&rsquo;s Speech, the Oscar winning movie, paid tribute to King George VI&rsquo;s triumph. Name the writing instrument brand that has come out with a special edition in his honour.

The Strategist Quiz (#206)

    This late animal celebrity was found on postage stamps. Tens of thousands of bank ATM cards featured its face. A candy maker used to churn out more than a million replicas of it as gummy candies a day. The zoo in which it stayed was listed in the local stock exchange and showed profits during the years of its existence and as a brand it generated more than $140 million in business. Name this celebrity and the place it inhabited.

Answers to last week's quiz (#205)

Apart from a new logo and tagline, India&rsquo;s third-largest channel is going in for a massive content overhaul.

Zee shows off its 'desire to succeed'

After &lsquo;Utterly Butterly Delicious&rsquo;, it&rsquo;s now &lsquo;Health-a-licious&rsquo; for Amul. The country&rsquo;s leading dairy products player has re-launched Amul Ghee (butter oil) in what the company calls a &lsquo;Gen-X&rsquo; avatar.

Amul takes ghee to young India  

In a bid to usher in more transparency in reporting salary components during placements, B-schools, led by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) have decided to do with away with the concept of cost-to-company (CTC). Instead, B-schools would now look to declare a maximum earning potential (MEP) which would include both cash, non-cash and other variable components.

IIM-A, B-Schools to do away with CTC in placement reporting

For Spencer&rsquo;s, the 148-year-old retail brand now part of the Rs 12,000-crore RPG Enterprises, big is the new beautiful.

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