From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji
Panaji, Dec 10: Goa Institute of Management (GIM) has been selected by the prestigious Aspen Institute, New York, as part of its Teaching Innovation Programme – India (TIP – India) an international consortium of key influencers in business education in India. The TIP India convening will be held at the Goa Institute of Management on 11th and 12th December 2009.
The objectives of the programme are to develop a pilot set of classroom tools that meet the standards of the top business schools in India, actively involve business executives from Human Resources or Leadership Development and share tools with select education institutions throughout India.
India’s vibrant markets and intellectual capacity are paving the way for unprecedented economic opportunity. But this opportunity is fragile. Without a strong pool of managerial talent India will struggle to maintain its growth and to strengthen the social and environmental conditions that are critical to a robust business environment over the long term. Indian businesses report that too many of today’s graduates are not prepared to consider how decisions they make on the job will affect India’s environment or its local communities. TIP-India is designed to tackle this challenge.
TIP-India’s approach is unique. Rather than teach sustainability as a stand alone topic, cutting edge classroom tools are developed - case studies and interactive simulations - that artfully weave these thorny issues into finance, marketing, and operations courses.
In 2007 TIP - India, jointly developed with the Confederation of Indian Industry, kicked off with India’s top business schools and leading businesses including Goldman Sachs, Infosys, Hindustan Unilever, Mahindra, Tata, L&T, Dempo, Zuari Industries, Salgaocars and Sesa Goa. By 2010 TIP – India expects to have delivered their first set of curriculum and will distribute them free of charge to higher educational institutions across India.
GIM has always aimed to impart not just managerial skills to its students but also inculcate in them a sense of social responsibility. The institute lays emphasis on working towards inclusive growth in the society. Aspen Institute’s TIP - India programme will immensely help GIM take this thought forward.
About Goa Institute of Management
The Goa Institute of Management was started in 1993 by Fr. Romuald D’Souza supported by a team of professionals and industrialists and has risen to one of the finest management schools in the country. It is now embarked on raising its level to be among the top 10 in the country and the top 70 in the world with international accreditation.
As part of this effort and in order to afford the higher faculty salaries that this effort calls for, it has launched the construction of a new campus at Poriem in Sattari Taluka in a plot of 50 acres nestled in the idyllic foothills of the Western Ghats. The new campus will have the state of the art infrastructure and wifi internet and intranet connectivity and access to the best on line data banks needed for management education. The proposed admission of 240 students a year will give economy of scale which will afford a higher level of faculty. There will also be a higher interaction with industry and an exposure to entrepreneurship.