Here is the evidence, but before that, the preamble. A Professor who did Ph.D 15 years ago and rose to the rank of Professor through 20 years of teaching is indeed mature, experienced and the finest in teaching, the art of which he has developed by repetition over 20 years. But does he know Six Sigma, the latest Mantra of quality product, low cost, least error, and most highly competitive? No. He doesn’t. Because, it was not taught to him 25 years ago when he did his MBA and he surely did not indeed, exceptional cases apart--upgrade himself because it required extremely hard work which a sinecure and safely ensconced person (much worse attitude if he is paid by Government) never does. Compare him with a younger lecturer who learnt the latest subjects in his recently done MBA and knows the latest development of industry (which changes by the day due to technological changes springing up on daily basis) but, indeed, may or may not have finesse in pedagogy but can deliver goods all the same. This does not apply to all the fresh MBA’s but only to MBA’s from those Institutes where updation has been securely built in the culture of continuous learning both by faculty as well as by students.

When you sit in judgment, find evidence of enforced continuous learning system of faculty AND ALSO passing it on to students. Here is the evidence on behalf of IISE.

The task of daily study (not reading) of newspapers and extracting business news of relevance is performed by IISE faculty daily. The marked portions of business news are then sent to Library’s Press Cutting Section where it is cut and pasted to produce. IISE’s own business newspaper ‘Kaizen’ and one copy of it is given to each student through IISE’s own Press. Ask Manager Information to show you the sample. Questions are prepared on the contents of Kaizen and students are given one question each on Monday & Tuesday of every week and given 5-minute time to prepare the presentation and make presentation in 5-minutes before the audience. Marking is done by examiners sitting in the audience. These marks are added as Viva Voce marks of the written examination paper ‘Current Business Affairs’. This is IISE’s procedure of ENFORCING CONTINUOUS UPDATION of both faculty (who award marks) and students (who have to pass the examination). Ask Manager Information to show you the list of questions and live video of Presentation Activity.

Latest Indian and foreign magazines and latest books on Management are other sources of updation which have been fully exploited for student’s and faculty benefit. All articles of Magazines are studied by faculty and each is pegged on 3 subject/topic fields of a computer database. Any student/researcher who wants to scan published material for a particular topic e.g., say strategy, or HLL or economy etc., he just has to open the computer file (available on all computers) and search on a single word and he will get all article references in a row on the monitor screen mentioning the date/name of the Magazine and Article and the page number. He can then ask the Librarian to provide particular issues of the magazine and complete his study in the Library. Ask the Information Manager to give you a live demonstration of this process right at this Information Centre.

For the best 3 books published on Management/IT any where in the world, IISE has subscribed with an American Company to send material. Each of the 3 books is then studied and summarized by a faculty member who makes a power point summary of the book and teaches it in the class. Thus, during 22 months of a PGDBA student at IISE, every PGDBA student is exposed to 66 latest books. The student is thus updated up to the latest best international book published up to the last month of his stay at IISE, before embarking on the journey into the industrial world.