AIMS meet on UGC Guidelines on Jan 20 at JKLU, Jaipur

In the backdrop of ongoing controversy related to the UGC draft Guidelines vis a vis technical institutes, Associationof Indian Management Schools(AIMS)is organizing a Round Table of Deans and Directors of B-Schools onDraft UGC Regulations for Professional and Higher Educational Institutionson Monday, theJanuary 20, 2014at JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur.

Some of the prominent deans and directors who will be addressing the roundtable include Dr. H. Chaturvedi, Director, BIMTECH, Greater Noida;Dr. Mukul Gupta, Director, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon;Dr Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai; Dr. Apoorva Palkar, President AIMS and Founder and Dean, MERC Institute of Management, Pune; Dr Upinder Dhar, Vice-Chancellor, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipurand Mr Amit Agnihotri, Chairman MBAUniverse.com.

On December 5, 2013 the UGC had stirred the hornets nest by announcing new draft guidelines to regulate thousands of technical colleges including engineering and management schools in the country. As per the guidelines,Independent B-Schools which follow their own curriculum and set their own course fees, were also required to obey the guidelines and seek affiliation to universities that function under the UGC and adopt their syllabus.

The UGCs new draft guidelines are facing stiff opposition from educational bodies like EPSI, AIMS, FAMPEI and IAABS since the B schools are now concerned about losing their autonomy. It was reported by the Business daily Mint on January 8, 2014, that MHRD has decided not to apply the UGC guidelines regulating the technical institutes to PGDM B-Schools.

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Association of Indian Management Schools(AIMS),founded in1988is an organisation of business schools in India. It is the second largest network of management schools in the world and is the official representative of Indian Management Schools in India as well as in some important International forums. It is a powerful network of over 645 top management schools of national and international repute in the country. Presently Dr Apoorva Palkar is the President of AIMS. She is also the founder and dean of MERC School of Management, Pune.

JK Lakshmipat University (JKLU), Jaipur has been set up under Rajasthan Private Universities Act by Lakshmipat Singhania Foundation for Higher Learning set up by the well-established Lakshmipat Singhania Education Foundation. It offers Graduate, Post Graduate and Ph.D. programs in the professional fields of Management, Engineering, Pharmacy, Law, Bio-technology and other Sciences and Languages.

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