Kerala - Kozhikode   

Thirty per cent of MBA graduates unemployable: educationist

Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE: Thirty per cent of MBA graduates of the country are unemployable, Member of Prime Minister's National Advisory Council and High Power Tribunal for AICTE Chairman Parthasarathi has said.

Dr. Parthasarathi was inaugurating a convention on `Competency Development — Challenges of Management Education,' organised by the Calicut Management Association (CMA) here on Friday evening.

He said there was a need to develop talent for taking up economic activities and for managing enterprises efficiently.

The best people were selling credit cards, toilet soaps, mobile phones etc. Only the mediocre get into academic institutions. Even after 60 years of independence, only four per cent of the youth were getting educated in the country's higher education institutions. It is a big question that who would develop the competency of the youth, he said.

Dr. Parthasarathi said the cream of society should come to the teaching profession. Teachers must be offered better salary and deserve better esteem.

Dr. G.R.C. Reddy, Director, National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C), chaired the session. CMA president P. Mohan, secretary A.V. Venugopal, and Malabar Chamber of Commerce president P. Zakeer spoke on the occasion.

Dr. Parthasarathi also gave away the CMA's Management Leadership Award 2007 to V.K.S. Menon for his outstanding contributions to management and social sectors.

The technical sessions were addressed by Calicut University Dean A.K. Sarada, IIM-K associate professor Saji Gopinath, Mukunda Das of the Indian Institute of Technology and Management, Kerala and Govindankutty Nair, retired professor of Calicut University.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

A day to cherish for tiny tots
Thirty per cent of MBA graduates unemployable: educationist
Air show on April 12
MTP: man files case against wife
Programme on skill upgradation ends

Copyright © 2007, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu