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Cover Story View : Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, Welingkar Education
What are the key issues in terms of quality of talent in the postgraduate level?
There are more than 3000 business schools in India, but quality is available only from the top 100 schools. The rest are not able to provide the required level of quality due to lack of a vision community comprising of the board of governors, institutional Leadership, good faculty, industry exposure and interface, teaching learning process among others.
In your opinion, where will we see maximum talent shortage in the coming years?
The maximum talent shortage in the coming years would be sectors/verticals such as e-business, Retail, healthcare, BFSI, Agribusiness, Education, Infrastructure KPO, Travel and Tourism, NGO / Social Sector, Media and Entertainment etc. Business schools will need to design curriculum to develop talent in these sectors.
What can be done to improve the quality of majority of students joining the workforce?
Business schools and corporate need to decide on the practical skills which any student need to have before he/she joins the industry and emphasize on the practical exposure more than the theoretical approach of getting more marks. This exposure can be made mandatory as part of curriculum. Emphasis needs to be laid on developing one’s ability to think independently with a 360 degrees approach, interpret & correlate the happenings in the environment and in turn foresee its impact. This will result in developing a creative mindset with an ability to learn, unlearn and relearn and thereby foster innovation. Innovation driven practices and teaching learning process apart from the infrastructure will aid better learning. I also visualize that the course structure and pedagogy will have to increase focus on character building, transformational leadership and to generate managers with a vision rooted in Indian values and having global perspective.
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Its really encouraging to have read articles from these bigwigs.
Its nice to read little more from these think tanks of India Inc.
A wonder and a thought provoking article by Uday, WE. Uday is forward in his approach to contribute transformation of Indian youth to VALUES, that we (all) stand for. One has to think global, and even beyond, as enunciated by Uday, and compete globally.Uday deserves applause from the business fraternity. Narendera K Gupta
I think Dr. Uday is both sagacious and pragmatic in the most powerful way! I wish we had a few more like him in the world of academia! Satish Pradhan
The last few lines have said it all. Getting this balance of character, leadership with India values and global perspective is a daunting task that Institutions are working towards. But very rightly said by Prof Dr Salunke, that only few are able to achieve this. Over the years, we have seen a lot of industry experts who would like to be associated with academics, but very few are able to transform their experiences into practical teaching points for the students.