Assuring quality in management education: the Indian context
Abstract
The increasing demand for postgraduate education in management in India has resulted in a steep rise in the number of institutes offering such education. However, the quality of education offered in many institutes is seriously being debated by students and prospective employers. The efforts to improve quality appear minimal, resulting in little or no improvement in quality. Provides a summary of status of quality in management education and critically analyses the issue of quality with the backdrop of problems, constraints, and conflicts. Further, the paper describes the structure and pattern of post‐graduate management education as offered in India, along with a description of regulatory agencies existing in the country to monitor the standards of management education. Towards the end, suggests appropriate solutions with several alternatives, to improve quality, discussing also their feasibility. The general objective is to provide help to develop strategies for improving quality of postgraduate education in management.
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Citation
Jagadeesh, R. (2000), "Assuring quality in management education: the Indian context", Quality Assurance in Education, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 110-119. https://doi.org/10.1108/09684880010372707
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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