MY LETTER IN FINANCIAL EXPRESS OF TODAY

 

MY LETTER IN FINANCIAL EXPRESS OF TODAY

11.12.13

The purpose of education

This refers to the column “Reinventing management education” (FE, December 2). The author has rightly pointed out about the dismal quality of and mediocrity prevailing in management schools in India. The reasons for the malaise are many. First, offering courses with outdated syllabus having no relevance to the current problems being faced by the country. Unless the schools teach how to face and solve the real issues haunting the nation, merely academic discussions based on imported case studies are not going to create good managers. Second, most of the management bodies do not have the core competency in educational field. A junk-dealer or a sweet-meat seller, who has minted money, thinks of establishing a management school simply because it is a good investment decision, especially looking at the extreme shortage of such schools in India. Third, the herd-mentality of many colleges to go for inexperienced faculty members appointed to just fit the bill and impart just course-content to students without igniting their minds. Fourth, I believe what has actually ruined this particular field is running a management college as a money-making enterprise without caring for the noble causes of creating a well-educated, knowledgeable, practical-oriented pool of a new generation of young experts to handle higher responsibilities. Last, a management institution must not merely consider education as a passport to a lucrative placement in the job-market but as a means to provide well-rounded leaders of future to lead the country to higher levels of prosperity.

JS Broca,

New Delhi

Here is the link to the FE page :

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/letters-to-the-editor-what-the-congress-should-do/1205943/0

My letter is published at the bottom of the page.

THE LINK TO THE ARTICLE: “Reinventing management education” (FE, December 2) IS:

http://www.financialexpress.com/…/reinventing…/1201932/0

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