All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman, Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe today said academic curriculum alone is not enough for the development of students.
Education should be the manifestation of excellence as academic curriculum alone is not enough. There should be enough of co-curricular activity in academic institutes to provide holistic development of students, Sahasrabudhe said, according to a press release by XLRI.
He was addressing an interactive session on the topic "The Future of Higher Education in India-Management Education in India" at XLRI-School of Management here.
The AICTE chairman said good infrastructure, laboratories, libraries are part of the input.
However, an out-based education is where focus is on student achievement after undergoing the course, recruitment of distinguished set of faculty members and an institute having a well-defined vision and values to guide its curriculum, he said.
Highlighting his ideas about future managers and management education in India, Prof Sahasrabudhe said, "Managers should look beyond business and profit and should be imbibed with moral and ethical values."
He said managers cannot be followers, but they have to be leaders. They must assert themselves in giving back to the society. Being innovative and thinking out-of-the-box is the key thing.
He highlighted AICTEs initiative called Marg Darshan or Mentorship wherein faculty from institutes struggling to achieve standards of excellence are invited to the cream institutes to observe their teaching policies and methodology.
This practice of competition and collaboration can help in expanding the quality of education beyond the 100 best B-schools, the AICTE chairman said.
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