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Greening of MBA Curriculum: Emerging Corporate Expectation
-- Aasha Sharma
Globalization has spinned off drastic changes in the approach and outlook to business, paving way to newer concepts in environmental issues. Big giants like Wal-Mart, General Electric and Coca-Cola are implementing new processes and striving to be projected as ‘environmentally responsible.’ This shift in corporate theme has triggered the need for incorporating academic inputs of ‘sustainability and environmental entrepreneurship’ in business school (B-school) curricula to enable the future managers to appreciate and address the environmental challenges. The paper deals with the current status of ‘environmentalism’, and the need for incorporating it in B-school curriculum.
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Affiliated Colleges in South Asia: Is Quality Expansion Possible?
-- Leonie Siok Yoong Lee
The South Asian countries have all experienced a rapid expansion of their higher education sector in recent decades. Uniquely in the world, South Asia achieved this expansion through growth of Enrolment in the affiliating colleges. This paper establishes a set of common features of the affiliated college model in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Further, it reviews the available information on the consequence in terms of quality, relevance, and outcomes of the affiliation model. Overall, the affiliated colleges are found to provide sub-standard education due to low investments, multiple stakeholders and complex governance structure, low teacher qualifications, small size of colleges and limited investments in infrastructure. This shortcoming is combined with weak supervisory and monitoring capabilities in the affiliating universities, quality assurance agencies and government authorities. This low quality will affect the productivity of the labor force and economic growth and development of these countries moving forward. The paper recommends that it is no longer sustainable or wise to continue the current way these colleges are operated and managed. A road map is proposed for a gradual reform of the affiliated college model through policy changes and capacity building at all levels of the system, notably the colleges themselves, affiliating universities, regulatory agencies and governments.
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A Study of Academic Leadership Styles at Private Management
Institutions: A Transformational Leadership Perspective
--U V Arvindekar and Swapnil Mackasare
After a careful study of administration in higher education, it has been observed that the academic standards are dwindling, the causes of which can be attributed to many factors like administrative mismanagement, paucity of qualified directors and faculty, political interference and manoeuvering in matters of appointments and administration, financial sleaze, apathy of students and teachers, inadequate resources and lack of strategic leadership at the institutional level. With a clear indication of such flaws, there is a need to study and understand the impediments in the development of higher education in India. It all starts with assessing the existing leadership practices at such management institutions and further understand how effective leadership contributes to institutional effectiveness. This paper assesses the leadership styles at different management institutions, which include autonomous as well as university affiliated colleges, with regard to important academic and administrative activities like placements, results, attendance, faculty appraisals, accreditation, monthly payments, infrastructural facilities, computerization, facilities provision, and faculty-student ratio. The proposed research enables in establishing the actual relationship between different leadership styles and the institutional effectiveness. The paper concludes with suitable suggestions and recommendations.
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A Study of Moral Judgment Competence Among Indian Students
--Vinay K Chaganti
The importance of morals and moral competence has always been acknowledged. This article attempts to study the moral judgment competence among the students of a university. The results of this study partly confirm and partly contrast with the literature. While the presence of a course in ethics does not seem to make much difference to moral judgment competence, gender seems to have a strong impact. One of the earlier assumptions of cultural differences as a reason for different moral judgment competence has also been tested and identified to be operational. Overall, this article reviews the moral judgment competence and presents an empirical study of the same among Indian students.
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The Need for Reforming the Syllabus and Examination System
of MCA Course
--Neha Chopade and Vidhya Rao
The requirements of software industries are ever-changing following the advances in computer technologies. Hence, it is required to evaluate the students as per the industry expectations with the current trends. A change in the syllabus and examination system is needed. The purpose of this study is to determine the problems in the current syllabus and examination system of MCA course from the professors’ perspective, thereby providing valuable suggestions for further improving and enhancing the standard of this course. This paper uses a questionnaire-based survey among professors of this course and their perception of these problems are analyzed. This study is limited to the University of Mumbai offering MCA course.
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Research Note: Implementing Total Quality Management in Education:
A Strategy to Improve the Quality of Education
--Garima Tyagi
Education involves gaining of some learning and knowledge. It is the overall development of an individual through the enhancement of skills, knowledge and social values. Good education implies the enhancement, in the theoretical as well as practical knowledge of an individual. Education can be formal and informal. Formal education is acquired through institutions and organizations, while informal education is acquired by observation and teaching by elders.
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