Global Association of Risk Professionals Announces Sharp Rise in Worldwide Registrations for FRM Exam; Number of Candidates Applying for 2009 Exam Increases 70% Over Same Time Last Year

September 7th, 2009 MCLEAN, Virginia - Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic), a new English language test owned by Pearson and developed in collaboration with the Graduate Management Admission Council, will debut on October 26, 2009. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which owns and administers the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), began working with Pearson in 2006 to conceive and develop a test that would more accurately measure the English language skills of students than existing exams.

July 14th, 2009 MCLEAN, Virginia - Kai Peters, dean/director, Ashridge Business School, United Kingdom, has been selected as 2009-10 chair of the board of directors for the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). Peters, whose term of office runs through July 1, 2010, leads a 14-member board that includes representatives from academe and industry in 19 countries.

July 8th, 2009 MCLEAN, Virginia - For the first time in its history, the French National Commission for Data Protection and the Liberties (CNIL) has granted approval to a private testing company -- the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) -- to collect biometric data as part of its efforts to ensure the highest level of security for the GMAT exam. No other private examination has obtained this permission.

May 4th, 2009 NEW YORK, LONDON and ISTANBUL - 15,000 Already Signed Up To Take the Exam in November The Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP, www.garp.org) today announced that its Financial Risk Manager (FRM(R)) program continues to set records by registering 15,483 candidates as of the close of its Early Registration period April 30, 2009. GARP's FRM program, the internationally recognized benchmark program for financial risk management professionals, increased registrations as of the close of the Early Registration period by 72%, or 6,463 candidates, versus registrations received at that point in 2008.

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April 8th, 2009 MCLEAN, Virginia - GMAC News Center Features Podcasts, Videos, Articles and Other Information About Graduate Management Education - www.gmac.com/newscenter The Graduate Management Admission Council(R) (GMAC(R)) has launched a new online News Center to provide journalists, business school professionals, and the general public with a multi-platform array of resources and information about graduate management education. GMAC is the owner of the Graduate Management Admission Test(R) (GMAT(R)).

April 6th, 2009 ROCKVILLE, Maryland - New RAC Credential Focuses on General Scope of Regulatory Practice, International Standards The Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) has announced its newest Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC), the RAC General Scope (GS). The RAC (GS) credential denotes knowledge related to the general scope of practice of regulatory professionals in the healthcare product sector, regardless of geographic location or in which regions they may be involved.

March 31st, 2009 NEW YORK and LONDON - The Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP, www.garp.org) today published the premiere issue of its bi-monthly Risk Professional magazine. Both the print and digital editions of the magazine's premiere issue will be sent to over 30,000 Association members.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - Telnic Limited (www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), today confirmed that total registrations from businesses and individuals worldwide had surged past the 100,000 mark just 36 hours after General Availability opened. "The overwhelmingly-positive response from people applying for the .tel shows that this is a service that is right for the time," said Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic Limited.

March 15th, 2009 UTRECHT, The Netherlands - EXIN, the Examination Institute for Information Science, continues to play a significant role in the translation of the new ITIL(R) V3 Qualification Scheme as the first Japanese Manager's Bridge exams enter the pilot phase in March 2009. This pilot will be the next step in a year-long project to translate the core ITIL(R) V3 examinations into the Japanese language.

August 14th, 2009 LONDON - A teenaged schoolboy in England was left surprised when he mysteriously got a qualification in "riding buses" from exam board AQA. Bobby McHale, 15, was appreciated for his exceptional skill in walking to the bus stop, waiting for it to arrive, and getting on in the letter he received from the exam board.

May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As many as 10,035 candidates cleared the Joint Entrance Examination-2009 (JEE-2009) for admission to 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) with 17-year-old Nitin Jain from Faridabad topping the list, it was announced Monday. The 10,035 candidates - 1,048 girls and 8,987 boys - have been declared successful to seek admission for 8,295 seats in the IITs at Bhubaneswar, Mumbai, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Mandi (Himachal Pradesh), Patna, Punjab, Rajasthan, Roorkee, IT-Banaras Hindu University and ISMU Dhanbad, said a statement released here by IIT-Delhi.

July 5th, 2009 BANGALORE - Activists of the Kannada Protection Force (KPF) in Karnataka Sunday stormed into exam centres and disrupted railway recruitment examinations in protest against the appearance of north Indian candidates, especially from Bihar, in large numbers. Police arrested 65 KPF activists who were part of the groups that disrupted the exams being conducted in the Karnataka capital, Mysore and Hubli.

September 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Motorcyclists who get access to lightweight bikes without having taken a prior exam may be more vulnerable to accidents, according to a study. Focussed on Barcelona, the study has shown that there has been an increase in the number of injuries among users of lightweight motorcycles after a law was passed in 2004, allowing the riding of motorbikes with a class B licence (for cars).

February 28th, 2009 RANCHI - The Jharkhand government postponed Saturday's Class 10 and 12 board examination following a strike by Maoist guerrillas. 'We have postponed the examination.

August 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Primary school students were recently asked to invigilate an exam for public security, procuratorial, and judicial workers in China. The Government of Liangzhou district of Wuwei, Gansu province, asked 18 primary school students to invigilate the exam.

February 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Students appearing for the class 10 mathematics examination in Haryana were taken aback Tuesday when they were given a semester I question paper instead of the semester II paper they were expecting. Students at various centres of the Haryana School Education Board were given the wrong question paper, a board official said.

May 20th, 2009 TORONTO - Organisations rely on standardised tests to pick out the best guy for the job. But new research shows that tests for promotion may discourage candidates from applying and create anxiety that could hurt one's performance.

May 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It was woman power all the way in the civil services (main) examination 2008, as they took the top three ranks in one of the toughest competitive exams in the country, officials said Monday. Shubhra Saxena, a graduate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, and Sharandeep Kaur Brar, post-graduate from Panjab University, were ranked first and second in the civil services (main) examination 2008, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) announced here.

August 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is likely to announce on Friday that from the coming academic year (2010-11), Class X board exams will become optional in all CBSE-run schools. The board will make a formal announcement once the blueprint of the new system to replace the board exams is frozen.