New Delhi, Nov 03 : Failing to evolve consensus on having a common counseling for admission, the IIM Council on Wednesday decided that the institutes would share their admission information and co-ordinate their counseling systems. For the first time, IIMs have decided to go beyond the world of finance and business management and begin courses in areas like energy management, academic institution management, health management, agriculture management etc. A taskforce for establishing the contours of such programmes has been set up.
In a bid to attract foreign students so that IIMs have a more diverse mix, the Council decided that IIMs should have a road show abroad. The older IIMs after completing their counseling session would share information about those who have not been able to make it and the other IIMs — mostly the new ones — would be free to take students from that pool. However,other IIMs would be free to have their own counseling sessions. “Admission policy of each IIM is sacrosanct.
In order to ease pressure on students and assist the new IIMs in their admission processes it was decided that the institutes would share their admission information and co-ordinate their counseling systems,” the HRD ministry said.
Source : The Times of India