Xavier Institute of Management (XIME) will host a national conference, Indian Management Education: Time to Transform, on January 29 and 30 here. It will bring together academics, including those from other countries and representatives from the Indian business and industry. Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman of AICTE, will address the inaugural session.
Themes such as the place of quantitative analysis in management learning; the scope of business school research; the trade-off between discipline-related skills vs. practical business knowledge; the space for soft skills and the dissemination of leadership capability routinely figure in the Indian discourse on management education.
For Indian management education to hold its own and to be counted among the best in the field, it should not only be both open to innovations and ideas that come from elsewhere, but also be proactive enough to make its own contribution to global learning. It is up to Indian business schools themselves to initiate such a collective drive through a shared effort.
The conference will examine the need and scope for transformation of management education. The range covered by the sessions of the conference will include Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Industry Relevance of the Management Education in its current form, Legal and Regulatory Aspects, and Global Benchmarking.
