Friday, February 12, 2010

B-School Crap Analysis

Industry experts today said that students at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) lack the quality to cope with the market turbulence due to a lack of practical training.

"IIMs are not producing the kind of students required by the industry. The kind of people industry today requires are those who have the competence to work under ambiguity and have the agility to cope with different dynamic situations," said Rajeev Bhadauria, president, Human Resources, Reliance ADAG, speaking at 'Connexion' a PGPX (Post Graduate Programme for Executives) conclave organised at IIM-A."Dynamism should be the primary input today in all models of education that we propose to teach. So, our curriculum must make people dynamic," he added. He was one of the panelists on "Bridging the divide between academia and industry". Others said that students lack practical training and real management issues in industry.

Dr Biju Paul Abraham, Chairman, Post Graduate Programme for Executives at IIM-Calcutta said, "We at business schools are failing in terms of teaching the basics. We teach them in ways that we want to teach, and not the way they want to learn; so there is a problem of teaching basics at B-schools." He said the business schools need to concentrate on teaching the basics and also need to ensure that it is taught well.

Former IIM professor T V Rao, also the Chairman of the Ahmedabad-based TV Rao Learning System Private Ltd, however, said: "I think the gap should always be there, otherwise B-Schools shall become industry and industry shall become B-Schools."

News released by Press Trust of India/Yahoo news
 
PS: Ain't that an excellent play of words to cover up for incompetence?

4 comments:

Neha said...

hmmm, I am reading this book - second degree by Prashant John..it is on PGPX at IIM - a..book is so far pathetic; wil be done with it by tomo i guess..will let you know my views if u r interested (ha ha ha, I am good at sarcasm!)

yeah, the book has such kind of sentences and the author feels he is funny or sarcastic..but honestly, he is damn confused and confuses us too..we think the present situation is good; but he thinks otherwise all the time..

just wanted to vent out..and you wrote on this topic..thank u thank u :P

Shrikant said...

You should vent it out where ppl will see it... your blog for instance and your voice might be heard... not here in the deep dank depths of a seldom visited lair of a pseudo-quasi-intellectual.

Neha said...

oye chal na..this blogworld is totally fake..if u comment on others blogs, then only they will visit urs..

n my purpose is to vent out..tht's served :D

Shrikant said...

If you say so!!!