The Association of Indian Management Schools should debate the challenges the standalone, private management schools will face in awarding postgraduate diploma in business management if Indian Institutes of Management start awarding MBA degree programmes, said president Upinder Dhar.
At the Directors Regional Conclave at PSG Institute of Management on Saturday, he said that the IIMs were empowered to award the MBA and there was a need to debate this – to not divide management institutions but collectively find a solution.
The IIMs were well known and now there was ranking among them. Plus, there would be six more to take the total to 19 institutions across the country, Mr. Dhar said and added that this was a new challenge the Association faced.
Transition phase
The management body also needed to debate old challenges and also emerging ones to solve those in the right perspective. And, there was a more pressing need to do so because technical education, particularly management education, was in transition phase.
Solutions
There was a responsibility on the management schools to find solutions as they needed to produce modern managers with employable skills who would contribute significantly to the economy.
He also spoke about the Prime Minister’s skill development programme, the carving out a separate ministry and the need for enriching management students with right skills.
Joe Philip, president, XMIE, spoke on competency based education system and the evolution of management education in India.
