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Welcome
to the personal pages of A Thothathri Raman, an experienced Indian
business journalist and an award winning author, management teacher
and India's first author of an e-fiction book set in 26th century
"e-commerce@love". Mr Raman is well known to the Indian
b-school community as the author of India's largest B-Schools ranking
and rating published in Business India
and also the Series Editor of the annual B-school Directory listing
largest b-schools data covering around 2000 B-Schools. He is also
the founder Trustee of India's first Higher Education quality advocacy
agency Standards for Educational Advancement & Accreditation
(SEAA).
He is a keen photographer and an avid traveller! (more)
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INDIA
ACCREDITATION SEMINAR
November 10 & 11 New Delhi
Venue: India Habitat Centre
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Lane to Global Accreditation |
Realism
about B-schools |
Association
of MBAs UK one of the top three global accreditation agencies,
conducted a two day India Accreditation Seminar
on November 10 and 11 at New Delhi to introduce in practical terms
peer to peer benchmarking of quality with the best business schools
of the world. The
seminar was conducted by a highly reputed experienced team of
international assessors with a deep insight into B-Schools quality
worldwide and also specific to Indian subcontinent. It is brought
by Standards
for Educational Advancement & Accreditation Trust (SEAA Trust),
quality advocacy group for B-Schools formed by leading professionals
from industry and academia based in New Delhi.
The intensive two day meet had met with an overwhelming response
from the B-school community and around 80 Deans, Directors and
senior faculty and also some representatives from corporate sector
had attended the seminar. The feedback for the seminar had been
excellent and the takeaways included the need for top business
schools to go for international accrediation as the best means
of differentiating themselves from their peer. details
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It is a pity
that Indian b-school movement with more than 2000 schools and over
150,000 seats and an investment of over Rs 100 billion should be
languishing for want of effective direction and Leadership!
Urgent reforms in Higher Education is the need of the hour making
it independent and being able to raise funds from legitimate sources
available to industry, streamline the admission procedure nationally,
improve the quality of learning through better qualified faculty,
more meaningful pedagogy and involving the stake holders in strengthening
the education through more meaningful campus industry interface.
Above everything else we need to benchmark with the best of the
peer through voluntary accreditation process, whether Indian or
International. Express yourself freely, let us chat and let us evolve
an approach paper jointly to build CAPACITY WITH QUALITY.
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Higher
Education Action Agenda
- Lift the restriction on
capacity and allow markets to decide
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Lift the restriction on fees
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Provide low interest education
loans and freeships
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A single nationally accepted
admission test for engineering colleges
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High quality faculty through
conscious faculty development process
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Excellent pedagogy developed
and shared by everyone
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More meaningful Campus Industry
Interface
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An accreditation process that
benchmarks quality and renews confidence
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International accreditation
for Global Benchmarking of Quality
- Setting up of a independent accreditation body
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HR Notes!
India is on a fast clip and more than
half million jobs are to be filled! "Indian corporate are
desperate for talent" say the National HRD Network (NHRDN)
leadership. We need to urgently to create capacities in engineering
and management institutes, train faculty in the campuses as well
as those from industry who want to take up teaching! Tell
me what should be done! Address your concerns relating to
manpower needs, role of associations like NHRDN,
AIMS, AIMA,
NIPM, CII,
FICCI, ASSOCHAM
and EPSI.
The HR community has been working closely together
to evolve a consensus on the strategy to handle the looming manpower
crisis and ideas like forming a Star Alliance with all the HR
associations is in the offing to share expertise and strength
for the common good.
You can contact the respective institutions through their home
page links or write to me.
Express yourself freely!
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Knowledge Management
We are living in the knowledge century
and as such managing knowledge has become important. And
yet, KM is still an esoteric subject
seen as a domain in IT with little understanding almost in any walk
of life people have been managing knowledge and the subject is relevant
to any modern day professional in his/her career.
Being an award winning author of
a KM book I have been tracking the subject closely and publishing
whatever one finds interesting happening in the world of management.
I will attempt to provide as many links and information sources
as possible from this website and also from my other blogs of KM.
After all knowledge is free and it should be shared.
I also request the KM professionals
and CKOs to liberally contribute their knowledge, cases and other
intellectual inputs to make the pursuit of knowledge through
these columns a learning experience. You can mail me at atraman@gmail.com
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