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Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata has launched two programmes for business managers. Executive Program for Young Professionals (EPYP) and Executive Program in Business Management (EPBM), these two programmes will equip managers with the skills needed in the modern corporate world.

The certification programs have been designed to offer the maximum flexibility to aspirants,
and include a combination of classroom and campus training. Commenting on the launch, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta said, “These programs in particular, offer the right combination of interactive class room training along with on site classes, to ensure that students get a holistic learning experience while still pursuing their jobs.”

EPBM is designed to provide managers and professionals with a broad overview of the key
concepts, tools and techniques needed to successfully meet the challenges of today’s global business environment. Individual courses will give participants the knowledge needed to work cross-functionally within the organization and become more skilled in the basics of business management.

The one year programme will include Corporate Finance, Strategic Management, Information Technology in Management, Marketing Management, Behavioral Sciences, Cost Accounting, Financial Accounting, Human Resource Management,
Micro Economics, Macro Economics, Operations Management and Statistics.

Another programme EPYP will include overview of core business functions – Marketing, Finance and Control, Operations and Supply Chain Management and
HR; understand the role and tasks of a manager and key managerial skills; and managerial skills in select functional/job areas – one major and one minor area to be selected from Sales and Marketing / Finance and Control / Operations and Supply Chain Management.

Those aspirants, who could not appear in IIM-CAT examination due to computer failure, will have to wait about one month for their turn. CAT’s organizing committee has decided to give them a chance to appear in the online examination by the second week of January. Though date will be announced later on but the committee has also decided to go for online examination in the future also. The meeting was chaired by Vibha Puri, Secretary, HRD.
It is notable that a large number of students could not participate in the examination last month due to server failure and mismanagement of the CAT organizers.

After several incidents of ‘technical snag’ in the online examination system of CAT the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (HRD) has asked a detailed status report from CAT organizers. Though the ministry has refrained from making any comment on the issue but sources say that it is unhappy and concerned by the manner the online examination of Combined Admission Test (CAT) has been conducted.

Meanwhile, the a meeting of the directors of the IIMs has held today along with the US-based firm, who has been given the responsibility to conduct the online examination. The directors have shown their unhappiness with the company on the poor management of the examination. It is notable that today few centres were affected due to ‘technical snag’.

A large number of IIM-CAT aspirants in the cities like New Delhi, Ghaziabad, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Lucknow, Kolkata, Nagpur and some others have been disappointed on Sunday too as some of the centres were closed by the CAT organizers citing the reason of ‘necessary repair’. This is second consecutive day when entrance examination of premier B-schools of the country has affected due to bad management of the online-examination system.

Though number of affected students yet to be decided but candidates have been told to stay in touch with their e-mail and sms to know their new schedule for the examination. The CAT online test system was crashed on Saturday too on various centres affecting thousands of candidates aspiring a seat in the prestigious IIMs.

The much-hyped online examination system and debut attempt of Common Admission Test to convert traditional examination system into online have come under doubt as the a large number of CAT aspirant affected as the computer system crashed at several examination centre.
Candidates of at least six cities including Kolkata, Bhopal, Pune, Banglore and Mumbai have been reportedly affected due to the crash in the system. Though the number of the affected candidates has yet to be announced but it seems that the premier B-schools have not learnt any lesson from the recent crash of IGNOU’s online examination for engineering.
Over 2.5 lakh students were appeared for the CAT examination to get entry in the top B-schools including IIMs and several other B-schools. It was the first time the CAT was conducted online throughout the country at 115 centres and 32 cities.