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Business school being set up at Technopark

Special Correspondent

Institute to be a Rs. 30-crore venture

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Asian School of Business (ASB), an elite management institute, will start functioning in the Technopark Campus from July this year.

The institution will offer three management programmes: a full-time MBA course, a post-graduate course in management for working professionals and a post-graduate course in management for entrepreneur managers. Unlike the university programmes, the ASB courses will be flexible in terms of timings, according to its director, G. Vijayaraghavan.

At a press conference here on Thursday, Mr. Vijayaraghavan said the speciality of the ASB would be the management course for entrepreneur managers. It is meant for those who are about to take charge or are already leading family business concerns. Such people are not looking for jobs, but have the responsibility of employing and managing managers. This programme is designed to equip them to run their business independently and attract the right kind of talent in their organisations. George M. Thomas, president of the ASB, said the teaching faculty would include management experts from the United States.

The institution will also offer post-graduate programmes designed to train professionals to manage and lead institutions engaged in social welfare, according to M.N.V. Nair, former dean of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, who too is associated with this Rs. 30-crore venture. The ASB proposes to take 60 students under the first batch of its two-year MBA course beginning in July.

The programme meant for working professionals is a part-time one spread over three years and it is conceived as a course for creating excellent managers for the IT industry. To start with, the ASB will be functioning from a 12,000-sq.ft. centrally air-conditioned building at the Technopark here.

The institution expects to shift to its own campus in a 15-acre property close to the Technopark by 2007.

It will have a Board of Governors comprising professionals and academics, Mr. Vijayaraghavan said.

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