The country’s two premier b-schools, Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Ahmedabad and Calcutta will hold a joint conference on the future of India’s management education on October 14 and 15, 2011 at the IIM Calcutta campus.
Titled ‘Management Education: The road ahead, Meeting the challenges of globalization’ the conference would seek to take stock of the state of management education in India. “The objectives of these conferences would be to disseminate the outputs widely so as to start a national debate on what needs to be done to revamp management educationso that it becomes more relevant and responsive to the emerging needs of the nation,” said an IIM Calcutta press release.
Faculty teams from IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad and as yet unnamed US business schools will participate in the discussions.
Among the themes to be discussed at the conference are: increasing the percentage of international students and faculty at the b-schools, increasing the global content of courses both functional and discipline-based, creating integrative global management courses, developing international exchange programs, organizing immersion programs, offering global field studies and projects, establishing global research centers and building overseas campus.