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  INDIA ACCREDITATION SEMINAR
November 10 & 11 New Delhi
Venue: India Habitat Centre
 
Fast Lane to Global Accreditation Realism about B-schools


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ssociation 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

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.

Higher Education Action Agenda

  • Lift the restriction on capacity and allow markets to decide
  • Lift the restriction on fees
  • Provide low interest education loans and freeships
  • A single nationally accepted admission test for engineering colleges
  • High quality faculty through conscious faculty development process
  • Excellent pedagogy developed and shared by everyone
  • More meaningful Campus Industry Interface
  • An accreditation process that benchmarks quality and renews confidence
  • International accreditation for Global Benchmarking of Quality
  • Setting up of a independent accreditation body


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!


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

Quality Benchmarking

A network of voluntary bodies take care of quality standards and advocacy of higher education in India and abroad. A complex system of regulation for higher education exists in India where there are a number of agencies monitor quality standards. Accreditation as a way of benchmarking quality is getting popular in India even though International Accreditation has not happened in a big way. However impetus has been provided by the two global accreditation conferences held in the country at the behest of self through the public trust SEAA



Regulation & Facilitation
Accreditation

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
University Grants Commission (UGC)
Medical Council of India (MCI)
Association of Indian Universities (AIU)

Industry Associations
All India Management Association (AIMA)
Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI)
Association of Indian Mgmt Schools (AIMS)
Association of Indian Universities (AIU) International
International Association of Universities of UNESCO global database
Council for Higher Education Accreditation of US CHEA

Accreditation is not a ranking system. It is simply assurance that a program or institution meets established quality standards more

National
National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC)
National Board for Accreditation (NBA)

International
AACSB International
Association of MBAs popularly known as AMBA
European Cooperation for Accreditation EQUIS

Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs ACBSP
International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education IACBE