The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, has set up a committee to review its post-graduate programme in management (PGPM) from all aspects, reports of which will soon be out.
“A committee under Manohar Reddy has been set up to review the PGPM programme of the institute. It will also come up with the suggestion to improve the functioning of the institute,” IIM-B director Pankaj Chandra said on the sidelines of an alumnus award of the institute. He, however, declined to give any timeframe for this. The report would be presented to the governing council for consideration, he added.
Recently, the institute also received an initial corpus of Rs 1 crore from Canara Bank to conduct research on innovation in the banking sector. “The research will be directed towards innovations in the banking sector and will look into various aspects of functioning of a bank,” Chandra said, adding that IIM-B was moving towards a much more efficient research-oriented institute.
Yale University partners IIT Kanpur, IIM Kozhikode
US-based Yale University has partnered with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, to develop academic leadership development programmes for higher education leaders in India from January 2011.
This partnership will entail two new Centres of Excellence for Academic Leadership to be established at IIM Kozhikode and IIT Kanpur.
The partnership will begin with a term of five years and could be renewed thereafter. A six-member committee, with equal participation from the three partnering institutes, would determine the norms and qualifications for participating in these leadership programmes.