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Academic Advisor
Thothathri Raman

Realism about B-schools

It is a pity that Indian b-school movement with more than 1700 schools and over 120,000 seats and an investment of over Rs 100 billion should be languishing for want of effective direction and Leadership!
Urgent reforms in Higher Education is the need of the hour making it independent and being able to raise funds from legitimate sources available to industry, streamline the admission procedure nationally, improve the quality of learning through better qualified faculty, more meaningful pedagogy and involving the stake holders in strengthening the education through more meaningful campus industry interface. Above everything else we need to benchmark with the best of the peer through voluntary accreditation process, whether Indian or International. Express yourself freely, let us chat and let us evolve an approach paper jointly to build CAPACITY WITH QUALITY.

Also look up www.bibschoolsurvey.com run by the author focusing on the nine years of Rating and Ranking Indian B-Schools for Business India magazine.

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

HR Notes!

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 throu

gh these columns a learning experience. You can mail me at atraman@gmail.com