Management education is must have education for many students. The field opens various streams for a bright career. However, good education is only possible with qualitative faculty. Here we talk about accreditation of management teachers.
Non availability of adequate faculty is a major constraint for sustainable growth of quality management education in India. Today there are over 1700 management schools. All of these are in need of faculty. In view of the severity of faculty shortage, B-Schools have not been able to improve the standards – both in faculty, student ratio and senior - junior faculty ratios. Given the demand supply gap, additional faculty needs to be attracted.
In addition to pursuing traditional routes, new support facilities have to be created to overcome faculty shortage. This has also been brought out by NKC Working Group on Management Education in their report submitted to Prime Minister in October 2007.
To meet the demand of management faculty AIMA as a national apex body for professional management in the country has a scheme for Accreditation of Management Teachers (AMT). It aims at identifying capable professionals from any arena not necessarily academics who can effectively impart management education by virtue of their academic achievements and professional experience. It has been well acknowledged that teachers at management institutions should be those who have practiced and practitioners who can teach.
The applicants for AMT certification are screened through the following process: It starts with Screening of Applicants and goes through Psychometric Profiling, Presentation,and lastly an Interview.
Accreditation sessions are conducted at AIMA, New Delhi every third Monday of each month. To facilitate the applicants from western part of the country an accreditation session was held at Pune on 28 June 2008. Another accreditation session for applicants from Kerala is planned in the month of September this year.
Qualification required for this program: Post Graduate Degree or equivalent in a discipline relevant to management education.Post Graduate level regular teaching experience of minimum 3 years. Or Industry / consultancy / training / research experience of minimum 5 years.
The Accreditation Board comprising of highly reputed academician from institutes of excellence, senior practicing HR heads and consultants with proven track record conduct interviews with candidates. The AIMA’s initiative of AMT certification is to create a pool of experienced and knowledgeable management faculty from academia and industry. AMTs can be considered as benchmark of quality management faculty for B-Schools.
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