International conference on higher education in Nitte from Dec 29

December 22, 2014 05:19 pm | Updated 05:19 pm IST - Udupi District:

An international conference on the theme, “Higher education: Special emphasis on management education” here on December 29 and 30 by the Justice K.S. Hegde Institute of Management would.

The conference would be held in association with The School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, U.S., Erasmus Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands, and Makerere University Business School, Uganda.

Addressing presspersons here on Monday, K. Sankaran, Director of the Institute, said that delegates from different parts of the country, and countries such as U.S., Nepal, Netherlands and South Africa woulld participate in the conference. As many as 60 papers would be presented at the conference.

Explaining the theme of the conference, he said that the objective of the conference was to bring together ideas of inclusive thinking, sustainability, idea of student-professor interactions, impact of pedagogy, technology, admission process for MBA education and others.

The conference would debate four topics of contemporary academic relevance which include transformative Classroom versus institutional structure, virtual learning versus classroom as a social space, employability versus innovative thinking and trans-disciplinary dimension versus specialisation.

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