FMS students and faculty protest as Delhi University turns to CAT
The FMS is used to conduct separate entrance test for MBA and PhD programs every year. The members were gathered, because the decision to join the non-IIM B-schools against the CAT results were at the last moment, and brochures on December 4 this year, the exams were ready for sale. DU, which represents the FMS, meanwhile has approached the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMS), the approval of the CAT results - the test to promote the IIMS.
In a letter from you, August 25, the university said it would be able to carry the FMS entrance exam this year. According to the letter, the university is "challenged by the burden of exams, at national level by other departments." With the passage of system configuration annual semester exams, the university said it lacked the labor of effort to conduct the review.
Adopted by the FMS to move, Janakiraman Moorthy, convening, and CAT 2011 and faculty member of IIM Calcutta (IIM-C), said: "Yes, the FMS has approached us with the results of the CAT Although the procedure is course, the decision is likely to come this week .. "
According to FMS sources, cost was not an issue as the Delhi University was earning from the sale of forms. For its part, the University has refused to comment on the concerns of teachers and students. However, the student says to remain anonymous, said: "DU is not ready to look at options that may be possible to defer consideration of this year, and whether it will outsource the FMS entrance exam to make next year's IIMS DU CAT transfers the burden of ... "
According to FMS Faculty, move primarily to dilute the brand. "FMS is the only one of many colleges registered under the CAT. FMS entrance test model was very different than the exam to give more attention to the CAT verbal ability and speed based on evidence. Participate in a cat really to serve the purpose of taking what type of candidate we want, "said a faculty member.
FMS students also believe that this will mark the Dent Foundation image.They collect online support their alumni through social media platforms, and petitions online.
FMS decision to accept the results of the CAT comes at a time when the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have also decided to abandon the screening of the management committee of the common entrance examination (JMET) in CAT. Examination for admission to the decade-old business school treat IITs and Indian Institute of Science (IISC), has given way to promote IIMS CAT.
The relocation of the University of Delhi may be in line with the HRD Minister Kapil Sibal directive to replace several reviews of a type with a review to save time and effort. According to the minutes of the meeting by the FMS Faculty Monday, the decision to replace the examination with CAT FMS was taken because of the university have expressed inability to help complete the test. If FMS joining CAT, the university will have to pay a registration fee of only Rs 50,000 and an annual fee of Rs 2 lakh, besides Rs 200 per candidate to obtain CAT scores. Last year, 66,000 students took the entrance exam FMS.
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