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Batch size taking a toll on teaching, say IIM professors
10/2/2010
The coveted IIMs may be the best place to get an MBA. However, B-School professors, including those from the IIMs, increasingly feel
that the teaching quality at these premier institutes is on the wane. The IIMs are growing in stature, but unfortunately, also in size. With class strengths increasing by 40% in the last four years, the student to teacher ratio has dropped, thus making it difficult for the institutes to sustain the teaching standards.
However, the quest for quality manpower has been plaguing most of the IIMs who during the recent past have lost quite a number of faculty members to private B-schools who have been offering better perks and working environment. The IIMs have also been unable to attract foreign faculty due to restrictive salary structure set by the Union HRD minister, a sentiment expressed by the IIM-As director Samir Barua himself on several occasions.
Over the last three years, at least 10% of senior faculty members of IIM-Ahmedabad alone have either left the institute for better pastures or have not resumed duties after a long leave without pay, say insiders at IIMA. They have been replaced by new faculty members who are not standing up to the quality set by their predecessors, with the IIMA students themselves showing displeasure over the quality of new faculty recruits on public discussion forums on the internet.
Poor quality of education is also affecting the brand positioning of these premier B-schools, feel insiders. Immediate factors like poor management of the prestigious Common Admission Test (CAT) and closing down of two important courses (including the management education programme (MEP) and public management and policy (PGP-PMP), in 2010 and 2009 respectively) at IIM-A, have also added to the deteriorating brand value of the premier B-school.
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