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Welcome to the personal pages of A Thothathri Raman, an experienced Indian business journalist and an award winning author, management teacher and India's first author of an e-fiction book set in 26th century "e-commerce@love". Mr Raman is well known to the Indian B-school community as the author of India's largest B-Schools ranking and rating published in Business India and also the Series Editor of the annual B-school Directory listing around 2000 B-Schools. He is also the Founder, Trustee & Chairman of India's first international accreditation advocacy and facilitation organization for management education, Standards for Educational Advancement & Accreditation (SEAA) Trust. He is a keen photographer and an avid traveller! (more)

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Quality Benchmarking

A network of voluntary bodies take care of quality standards and advocacy of higher education in India and abroad. A complex system of regulation for higher education exists in India where there are a number of agencies monitor quality standards. Accreditation as a way of benchmarking quality is getting popular in India even though International Accreditation has not happened in a big way. However impetus has been provided by the series of global accreditation conferences held in the country through the public trust SEAA.

Standards for Educational Advancement & Accreditation Trust (SEAA Trust), the quality advocacy group for B-Schools formed by leading professionals from industry and academia based in New Delhi led by Thothathri Raman . The Trust has since conducted a series of global conferences, roundtables, group discussion and in-campus training progarmmes. The exclusive website www.seaastandards.org has the details. Next conference of SEAA is at Bangalore with AACSB International USA on February 22, 2010 at The Oberoi MG Road. For registrations please look up the website.

Higher Education Action Agenda
Lift the restriction on capacity and allow markets to decide
  • Lift the restriction on fees
  • Provide low interest education loans and freeships
  • A single nationally accepted admission test for engineering colleges
  • High quality faculty through conscious faculty development process
  • Excellent pedagogy developed and shared by everyone
  • More meaningful Campus Industry Interface
  • An accreditation process that benchmarks quality and renews confidence
  • International accreditation for Global Benchmarking of Quality
  • Setting up of a independent accreditation body

The supply side agenda!

India is on a fast clip and more than half million jobs are to be filled! "Indian corporate are desperate for talent" say the National HRD Network (NHRDN) leadership. We need to urgently to create capacities in engineering and management institutes, train faculty in the campuses as well as those from industry who want to take up teaching! Tell me what should be done! Address your concerns relating to manpower needs, role of associations like NHRDN, AIMS, AIMA, NIPM, CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM and EPSI.
The HR community has been working closely together to evolve a consensus on the strategy to handle the looming manpower crisis and ideas like forming a Star Alliance with all the HR associations is in the offing to share expertise and strength for the common good.

You can contact the respective institutions through their home page links or write to me. Express yourself freely!
KM has the answer!

We are living in the knowledge century and as such managing knowledge has become important. And yet, KM is still an esoteric subject seen as a domain in IT with little understanding almost in any walk of life people have been managing knowledge and the subject is relevant to any modern day professional in his/her career.

Being an award winning author of a KM book I have been tracking the subject closely and publishing whatever one finds interesting happening in the world of management.

I will attempt to provide as many links and information sources as possible from this website and also from my other blogs of KM. After all knowledge is free and it should be shared.

I also request the KM professionals and CKOs to liberally contribute their knowledge, cases and other intellectual inputs to make the pursuit of knowledge through these columns a learning experience. You can mail me at atraman@gmail.com

SEAA Forum

Be part of the change agenda! Become the member of SEAA Forum, the meeting place for minds and a place for action. SEAA Forum is being conceived as an open ended institutional response to the common cause of building quality in B-schools. It is conceived as a place to exchange ideas, building intellectual capital, propagating high quality pedagogy and sharing of information and knowledge. Please visit the SEAA Forum home page for details.

Regulation & Facilitation

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
University Grants Commission (UGC)
Medical Council of India (MCI)
Association of Indian Universities (AIU)

Industry Associations
All India Management Association (AIMA)
Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI)
Association of Indian Mgmt Schools (AIMS)
Association of Indian Universities (AIU) International
International Association of Universities of UNESCO global database
Council for Higher Education Accreditation of US CHEA

Accreditation

Accreditation is not a ranking system. It is simply assurance that a program or institution meets established quality standards more

National
National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC)
National Board for Accreditation (NBA)
International
AACSB International USA,
Association of MBAs UK popularly known as AMBA ,
European Cooperation for Accreditation EQUIS
Belgium,
Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs ACBSP USA ,
International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education IACBE
USA .