IIFT ties up with global B-Schools

KOLKATA: In an effort to maintain its pre-eminence as one of the leading B-Schools in the country, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) is set to embrace new global partners to offer new courses in the state-of-the-art education on business management, international trade and marketing.

The institute, which has been awarded the deemed university status, is in talks with two global B-Schools now.

“Discussion is on with a German institute for a partnership in offering a new MBA course for aspiring business consultants. The purpose behind this is to have a faculty exchange programme and secure the opportunity for students to go to that German institute for completing part of the course curriculum under the programme,” said IIFT director KT Chacko.

IIFT is also eyeing a partnership with a London-based royal institute to explore the opportunity of offering a specialised course in logistics and supply chain management. Without divulging the name of the royal institute, Mr Chacko said the deal in this regard may be struck by early next month.

In step with its strategy to help create a pool of skilled workforce for different industries, IIFT is soon going to introduce an exclusive PG diploma course exclusively for the executives of Larsen & Toubro.

IIFT, as a nodal institute for offering training and education programmes on bilateral and multilateral trade issues in developing countries, has been invited by the governments of Namibia and Rwanda to launch those programmes in those states, in collaboration with local Bschools . “Two such programmes are planned to be launched in those African countries in the first week of December and another one in Cambodia in January next year,” said Mr Chacko.

These programmes are being facilitated by multilateral trading fora/funding agencies, including WTO, UNCTAD and Swiss International Development Organisation.

Earlier in the year, IIFT, under the regional resource development programme, had conducted two programmes on management development for SMEs at Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and at Kuo-Ming in China , in collaboration with the local institutes.

Right now, the institute offers courses on 35 streams within the broad spectrum in business and international trade management.

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