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Follow on Google News |  Taking Goa Institute of Management from Top 20 to Top 10Exchange Programmes with London Business School and Oxford Said Business School are some of the targets that the incumbent Director of GIM hopes to achieve in his tenure
By: PGDM, Education, Part Time Pgdm, MDP, PH.D. In a freewheeling chat, Dr. Joe Arun, SJ, Director, Goa Institute of Management, talks about the reasons for the sudden rise of GIM over the last 3 years, the phenomenal placement record this year, and the future of GIM. Question: What are your thoughts on the current management education scenario in the country? Dr. Joe Arun: Management education is going through a systemic and substantive change. The focus is not just a degree from a reputable B-school. Instead, what a student learns and develops in terms of character formation, skills and attitude, gets him or her not only a suitable job but also helps the student live a meaningful life. Question: To that end, what changes/ developments can we expect in academics at GIM? Dr. Joe Arun: Academic rigor is my major focus. Oxford, where I did my PhD, follows the tutorial system of education, where the faculty guides students in their learning process and challenges them to excel. At GIM, in addition to teaching ideas and concepts, we have effectively begun helping our students think critically and independently. Leaders need to “Think Clearly”, and write and speak their thoughts powerfully. At GIM, learning is not going to be book-centered – instead, students are introduced to innovation and critical analysis. From the time the faculty and students get up in the morning, until they go off to sleep, the focus will be on the foundation of management concepts and leadership qualities. Question: How much can we adopt from the western hemisphere in terms of teaching practices? How much of your experience of doing a PhD from Oxford University do you feel can be applied to the Indian context – GIM in particular? Dr. Joe Arun: Never before has India needed to adapt the educational experience of Harvard and Oxford, as much as it needs to do today. Oxford’s tutorial system is set on imbibing in students skills in thinking, understanding and arguing a case, more than memorising concepts and theories. Learning is student-driven, not teacher-driven. What a teacher can and should do is to accompany the student in the learning process and make it interesting. I will try my best to introduce these best practices. Question: How do you view discipline in management education? Dr. Joe Arun: I do not think that we can achieve anything without discipline. Academic rig our demands a certain kind of discipline. Overcoming inordinate desires, students and faculty members at GIM must focus on learning and on the ways they achieve it. Set your goals in learning and in teaching, follow a pattern of achieving them, deliver the results and evaluate the process to correct any deficiencies. Question: What role do you see for Research in the future GIM? Dr. Joe Arun: Recently, we have put in place a finance lab with ten terminals, which is rare in B-Schools in India. Our faculty must engage in relevant research that contributes to the growth of the country by finding solutions to pressing problems. The outcome of research should be disseminated first in GIM classrooms for critical reflection and later it should be published in international journals. While allowing academic freedom to our faculty, their research must be subject to norms and standards of high-quality research. Question: The median pay package in GIM placement this year stands at a phenomenal 8.8 Lakhs PA. Every student was placed by April – even the students of the 1st batch of HCM. Where does GIM go from here in terms of placements? Dr. Joe Arun: Helping its students get a suitable job is key to the success of a B-School. In GIM, placement is a student-driven affair, although it is assisted, supported, and monitored by the School. We are making serious efforts to increase the average salary package by showcasing the quality of our graduates and building the correct perception of GIM in the corporate world. We’ve got a good network with top B-Schools in Europe and US. Question: Any new course or specialisation you'll be launching at GIM? Dr. Joe Arun: We are considering a course on Leadership. This course will help potential leaders develop their individual visions, rally the organization behind their visions, motivate people to turn the vision into reality, and make changes to perform at the highest level. We are also toying with the idea of introducing a course on Managing Value Creation. This course aims at guiding leaders to turn into Value Creators, by influencing the behavior and decisions of those in their workspace. It is a course that reflects the values of GIM. Question: What other pedagogical innovations are you planning at GIM? Dr. Joe Arun: We are looking to set up a full-fledged Quality Assurance Cell that evaluates what is taught, and what is learnt. GIM must go through an academic audit in the areas of subject knowledge, understanding, and skills that a student has acquired. To do this, we need to have benchmarks for every level of the teaching-learning- Question: What, according to you, will management education be like in 2020? Dr. Joe Arun: Education will become truly personal and portable. Online education will redefine - not replace - the role of physical infrastructure and of teachers. With a PAD (Personal Access Device), one will be able to connect with educational content in order to tailor the most effective approach for an individual student’s education. Virtual reality and simulation will remove lecture methods. As online education expert Stephen Downes envisages, synchronous conferencing systems will become more widespread. 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