Ahmedabad: Industry experts today mulled
over bridging the divide between academia and industry at the
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad here, with some of
them saying that there is lack of practical training at IIMs,
regarding real management issues in industry.
"IIMs are not producing the kind of students which
are required by the industry. The kind of people industry
today requires are those who have competence to work under
ambiguity and have the agility to cope up with different
dynamic situations," Reliance ADAG President Human Resource
Rajeev Bhadauria said.
"Dynamism should be the primary input today in all the
models of education that we propose to teach, so that our
curriculum must make people dynamic," Bhadauria said at a
day-long 'Connexion' organised at IIM-A here.
B-school graduates should be able to cope up with
the market turbulence, he added.
Addressing the gathering, Chairman Post Graduate
Programme for Executives at IIM-Calcutta Dr Biju Paul Abraham
said,"We at business schools are failing in terms of teaching
the basics. We teach them in ways that we want to teach not
the way they want to learn, so there is a problem of teaching
basics at B-schools,".
He felt the business schools need to concentrate on
teaching the basics and need to ensure that it's taught well.
"Also we dont do enough analysis of what is happening
within the country, which is particularly important when
people say India and China are going to be the next drivers of
economy," Abraham said.
He said, IIM-Calcutta was considering an option to
increase the student and industry interface.
"We are exploring the option of having student and
industry interaction alongwith the course, say which could be
3 to 4 months before it ends," Abraham said.
Chairman of Learning System Private Ltd Prof T V Rao,
taking a contrary view said "I think the gap should always be
there, otherwise B-Schools shall become industry and industry
shall become B-Schools."
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, February 09, 2010, 18:40