The honorable Supreme Court of India is expected to hear today AICTE’s response to the writ petition filed earlier by Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) and Educational Promotion Society for India (EPSI) against the AICTE notification issued on December 28, 2010, which had laid specific provisions for the admissions process of PGDM institutions.
In preparation for the hearing senior representatives of leading management education sector bodies AIMS and EPSI had met noted legal luminary Mr Venu Gopal yesterday, 6 July 2011, to seek his advice on the matter. EPSI has been holding round tables since the past few months across the country to garner support on this important matter.
The SC hearing provides the PGDM institutions another opportunity to show their unity. On March 17, while hearing the writ petition filed by EPSI, AIMS and Group of PGDM institutes against the AICTE notification, the Supreme Court had granted interim stay to the B-schools on AICTE notification.
The interim stay had brought a big relief to the B-schools as they could use any of the five nationally recognized MBA entrance exams like CAT and MAT for the admissions of 2011-13 batch. The B-schools were also free to conduct their own GD PI processes.
The stay had smoothened the admission process this year for more than 500 B-schools like XLRI, XIMB, MDI, IMT, BIMTECH, TAPMI, K J Somaiya etc. These B-schools have not only conducted the admission process, but many of them have already commenced the 2011-13 academic session and some will soon commence their new sessions.
As the interim stay provided relief to the B-schools for this year only, all the PGDM institutions are looking forward to getting the final SC verdict in their favour for admissions 2012 and beyond.
Our readers will recall that on December 28, 2010, AICTE issued ‘provisions’ for regulating the PGDM courses in the country. In eight points, the notification called for much greater role of respective State Governments in running of B-schools, and had many provisions covering almost every aspect of running a management institute – from admissions to fee-structure, to curriculum design and disallowing the globally successful one-year MBA program to run in the country.
Across the country, management education fraternity was irked that government had issued an important notification without any discussions or consultation with B-schools & other stakeholders.
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