RE: [MTC Global] Business schools fail to attract students

Hello friends, grateful for the learned group for continuing with some progressive thoughts and views, which I hope will start getting implemented at various levels over time.

 

Most of the times the management schools are blamed when a student does not do well or does not get a job or is not skilled enough to secure a “good” job. I do not deny that most management schools had made themselves as “MBA factories” rather than education institutions, that today has resulted in the inevitable situation of closing them down; in fact, they were cutting the same branch that were sitting on. But this is how most businesses function and unfortunately this has become a business rather than education.

 

While every student cannot have the “calibre” or “affordability” to become engineers or doctors their obvious choice has been MBA and with the increase in population it became a terrific business sense to start MBA institutions. I am not sure as to what percent of students get into engineering, medicine, management etc and my guess is that at least 25% of the pass-outs are getting into MBA.

 

What I am trying to point out is that the whole system of education (?) is not standing on right foundation or fundamentals. When some students are being taught in an MBA class we wonder  - how the hell did he come to this level? Who passed him or her in their graduation? Which means there is a problem in the godown itself which has resulted same products in the showroom too! At a PG level can a professor turn a donkey into a horse? By the time the student comes to the PG level he or she would have already become a fully grown donkey which is an impossible situation from any angle you see it.

 

The basics have to be changed, the last level is not the place to change or mould them. It is too late. It is like trying to straighten a bent coconut tree when it is fully grown rather than straightening it when it was still a sapling. The blame may not be squarely put on MBA institutes, some onus has to be on the whole education system.

 

Warm Regards,

Balaji Rao

 

P.S.: The shadow education system by way of tuitions and tutorials are one of the biggest disappointments (a menace) of our education system where the mainstream system has let it grow and is thriving better than the main one.

 

From: join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Varun Arya
Sent: 02 September 2013 09:24
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [MTC Global] Business schools fail to attract students

 

I have been reading with great concern and keenness the various mails relating to the failure of business schools to attract the students and also closure of many business schools. While the blame may possible be because of a number of factors but the question is who is the main culprit. I have compiled a status report which is attached and the people may draw the conclusion themselves.

Thanks and best regards

Varun Arya
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At 09:01 02/09/2013, Virendra Goel wrote:

My own experience is that students coming from high end schools, who have good soft skills too, are also failing to get respectable jobs because management programs today do not focus on competency building – they focus on passing the written exams based on theories. Unless rigor of the management programs is pushed to the same level as M.B.B.S. program or that of IIMs and ISB programs, MBA will remain a degree for marriage market not for employment.
Regards
Virendra Goel

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