Exponential Growth of Business Schools - A Paradigm in Emergence: An Imperative Need to Transform Management Education and Development
Rapid technological advancement coupled with ever increasing interconnectedness has been opening the global opportunities for everyone, amidst rising global population and declining resources. It is an imperative need of management professionals to deal with newer and dynamic challenges in the public or private systems. Often newer challenges require varied solutions that can come from critical thinking younger generation management graduates and quality of tomorrow’s professionals is the result of today’s efforts in educational systems. Present scenario of management education presents a bleak future as most of our educational policies and systems are designed to produce mediocre professionals. Therefore, it is need of the hour to reengineer and transform most of the management programmes the way they are offered. The paper discusses the present scenario of management education, prerequisites for quality of management education, sustenance of quality, pedagogical tools and future outlook.
Developing Sustainable Infrastructure in Education and Research
Rapid technological advancement coupled with ever increasing interconnectedness has been opening the global opportunities for people possessing skills. Amidst rising global population and declining resources, the role of education has become vital, not only meet our present needs but also to find solutions for dynamic societal challenges. Often newer challenges require varied solutions that come from critical thinking younger generation graduates. Tomorrow’s quality of professionals come from today’s excellence in education that nurture knowledge and wisdom. Present scenario of education presents a bleak future as most of our educational policies and systems are designed to produce mediocre professionals. Therefore, it is need of the hour to reengineer and transform our educational system. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to highlight the necessity of paradigm shift in our educational policies. The paper discusses the present scenario of education and future requirements, prerequisites for quality of education and research, infrastructural facilities, pedagogical tools, and limitations of the study.
Historias de mi barrio: contemporary art in a community at high risk of social exclusion
Abstract Historias de mi barrio is a piece of pedagogic research aimed at highlighting the way art can articulate the relationship between the educational context and a neighbourhood at high risk of social exclusion. The starting point for this study was to ask whether this type of research, centred around the arts, was suitable in complex contexts and whether it might eventually lead to pedagogic improvement. The results gathered, and indeed the work carried out by the artists and university lecturers involved, together with pupils 6–12 years old and their instructors in a state school, provide evidence of a positive answer – and notably of the necessity of knowing about the socio-economic reality of the student cohort when planning learning projects and of the importance of the arts as a crucial element in education.