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There is a considerable need to reduce the gap between the educational quality expected by employers and the quality of graduates being produced in many developing countries, including India and China (see the section,
“Background on the Quality Crisis in
Education”). Advances in information technology have made national boundaries more porous and made collaborations easier and has made it easier for individuals to provide coursework across countries. To
achieve this goal, we are organizing a Conference
on Quality
Education Challenges and Opportunities during May
9-12, 2010 in Las Vegas, USA, and publish the Journal
of Innovative Education Strategies with an objective to both
raise issues of the supply and demand of education from all perspectives
including challenges in meeting the demand from both the employer and
educational institution perspective, challenges from the government
perspective, potential solutions including strategies used to
efficiently deliver education. International
Educators Group invites you to submit one page abstracts, completed
papers and proposals for Panel Discussions and Special Sessions at its
First Annual Conference to be held in Las Vegas, U.S.A. Papers on
all topics addressing (i) issues of the supply and demand of education
from all perspectives including challenges in meeting the demand from
both the employer and educational institution perspective, and
challenges from the government perspective, (ii) potential solutions
including strategies used to efficiently deliver education. are invited.
We specially encourage stakeholders in addition to professors,
i.e., administrators of educational institutions, government
administrators, and politicians to submit papers and proposal for
sessions. Selected
articles would also be published in our peer reviewed journal: The Journal
of Innovative Education Strategies(ISSN: 1555-5429, also
listed in Cabell’s). Please
email a one-page the abstract or completed paper on any issue dealing
with the delivery of education in general and higher education in
particular, as a MS Word attachment, to Conference@Intl-Academy.Org.
Contact
Information Background
on the Quality Crisis in Education The
demand for education in emerging economies has been increasing at a very
fast pace. In India, for example, number of MBA programs has experienced
800% growth since 1991. When economic reforms were introduced in China
in 1978, there were only 405 institutions of higher learning, which
increased to 1867 in 2006. With 23 million students, China has the
largest education system in the world. In countries like Vietnam, the
increase has been a robust 25% year after year. Universities are facing
problems in recruiting faculty as number of students pursuing PhDs has
not increased at the needed pace. In
India, for example, number of students doing PhD in management has
experienced a meager growth of 4%. Thus, while there has been a
mushrooming growth of business schools in India, the number of quality
faculty has not kept pace. “About 70 percent of Indian business
schools have fewer than seven faculty members, and usually they do not
have a doctorate.” Similarly, except for, maybe, the top 30 business
schools, recruiters are not sure of the quality of MBA programs at most
of these schools Thus, employers are not able to hire students coming
from many of these educational institutions since the institutions are
producing graduates with very little or no input from industry regarding
their needs. Therefore, much more needs to be done to reduce the gap
between the educational quality expected by employers and the quality of
graduates being produced. To
address the quality issue, i.e., to expose these students to skills
needed in the market place, various institutes have started programs to
cover the content not covered in the degree programs. These
include training programs to learn skills needed by certain businesses
or the use of certain software, for example, as well as the so called
'soft skills' that were not traditionally covered in degree programs.
Various universities are also introducing these training programs as
part of their curricula. This has lead to students earning credit
at traditional universities for training programs completed at training
institutions, e.g., students earning a year's worth of credit in the
Master of Computer Applications degree program for GNIIT certification
from NIIT, a premier computer training institution in India. Other
initiatives to improve education include student evaluation of teaching,
introduction of cases in the curricula and in some instances have case
base courses. Student Evaluations, while started as a way of
providing informal input to the professor, are now being included in
decisions for assessment of the performance of professors, and many
professors are now taking steps to teach so as to improve student
evaluations. This, in some
cases, has lead to changes in the course content so that more students
are happy customers while they may or may not have mastered the course
content. Grade inflation is cited as one of the results of this
practice. Several such practices have been introduced. The
preceding background provided the impetus for the formation of the
International Educators Group, which hopes to reduce the gap between the
educational quality expected by employers and the quality of graduates
being produced in many developing countries. |
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