CALCUTTA
BUSINESS SCHOOL
CONVOCATION
AT CALCUTTA BUSINESS SCHOOL
Calcutta Business School, a Business School of repute
in Kolkata, set up by Shikhshayatan Foundation under the under the leadership of reputed industrialists like Mr. S.
K. Birla, Mr. B. K. Jhawar, and Mr. B. D. Sureka and experienced corporate
leaders and reputed academicians, conferred Post Graduate Diploma in Management
to the students who graduated in 2012.
Speaking
on the occasion Mr. Girish Khaitan, presiding over as the Chairman of the
Convocation proceedings, Calcutta Business School said that the School was set
up with an objective to develop future leaders with the requisite skills and
competencies which India needs in tens of thousands to fuel its growing
economy. He said that developing managerial and leadership manpower with the
right skills and competencies was critical in the socio-economic and
socio-cultural context in India as on one hand there was a huge supply of
graduates and post-graduates thanks to participation of private sector in
education but on the other hand employability of the graduates and
post-graduates, especially in technical fields like Engineering and Management,
was plummeting to as low as 20-25%. He opined that Indian education sector was
producing the numbers but the competencies of the graduates were increasingly
being questioned.
The
Chief Guest at the Convocation was Mr. P. R. Ramesh, Chairman, Deloitte India,
said that change was needed in Management education in India as at many of our business
education institutions, the management and entrepreneurship curriculum were
outdated and detached from industry requirements. According to him, the
teaching methodologies were mostly archaic and based on rote learning. He
elaborated that Managerial and leadership competencies did not get developed by
cramming notes.
Dr.
Goutam Sengupta, Director, Calcutta Business School, inaugurated Industry-Institute
Collaboration Cell of the Business School which is constituted with reputed
corporate and business leaders. The Industry-Institute Collaboration Cell will
be engaged in a continuous dialogue with the industry leaders to research and
learn about the changing needs of managerial and leadership manpower in
industries. The Cell will be keen to work on joint research projects with the
industries and promote a platform where knowledge sharing among academic
fraternity, students, executives and business leaders happen. The Cell plans to
initiate studies in various areas in which industries are facing challenges and
are looking for feasible solutions. The cell will also contribute to the
adoption of a process of dynamic and evolving curriculum and pedagogy, which will
be implemented through structured studies and learning from interactions with
all stakeholders in business and industries. This initiative of Calcutta Business
School is unique.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Sengupta said that
Business Schools in India were facing a great danger of being irrelevant to the
requirements of the industry unless they evolved their curriculum and teaching
methodologies to address the needs of doing and managing business in the fast
changing socio-economic, socio-political and business landscape. He said that
academics detached from the realities and intricacies of industries and
business were of little value and that kind of academics would not benefit any
students. He further elaborated that academics which were not evaluated
strictly on various parameters of quality linked to industry requirements would
be wasted and would not contribute anything to the nation’s need.
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