One day before we celebrated our foundation day, on 24th of November the college decorated itself for the purpose of hosting an event that would be the first of its kind. We wanted to invite the principles and directors of all the nearby colleges to discuss about MBA and what the students want and what they need to become successful in their careers and life. Being a part of the Indian education system, we planned to contribute to bring about a “Shrestha Bharatâ€?, or atleast try and make our contributions to achieve it. There were a lot of things that we had planned on discussing on that particular day, about the policy chum, the regulating and accrediting bodies, Management and graduate institutes, but above all we intended to discuss how all these could affect GEN-Y and vice versa (of course). On the eve of the conclave we saw many new faces appearing on campus. We were egar to show our guests around campus and a few of us got that opportunity too. The next morning with all of us assembled on the venue the conclave started. An introduction was given by Gita Madhuri madam who stated that culture defines education and also told us a snippet from Ramanujanâ€&#x;s life. All in all a wonderful start. After Gita madam Professor Gopal took the dais, GI (as we call him) welcomed the dignitaries present and introduced our college to them, our vision and our values. Once that was done he came to the main point of the conclave. He stated that fewer people were getting into MBA, it had lost its charm. He also spoke about the tussle with AICTE, since 2010. He spoke at length about the National skill qualification framework (NSQF), where we stand on it and the challenges faced by us. He also laid an outline about how we were to continue our meeting. After him our resource person Dr.Jugandhi from Chetana College Bijapur, took the dais. He spoke about the challenges faced by the education system and how it was outdated. He stated that we constantly needed to revise this system or like any system it would settle in and rot. He tried to motivate the students by telling us to find out point of difference he asked us to find out how we were different from the others. He narrated many success stories and stated that in a college it was extremely important to have a self-motivated staff to motivate the students. He then turned his attention to the staff and told them to build up an industry-Institute interface. One that would let the college know what the company/industry is looking for and let the industry know what the college has to offer. Then came Mr. Sunil Kumar, Principle Nutana Institute of Management. Mr.sunil proved to be an excellent speaker, one who gave an light hearted and jovial speech. He explained in detail about the education system in Finland, the status of a teacher there and the level of prosperity in their education system. He spoke about the need to develop our employability skills and how entrepreneurship is a booming career opportunity for our generation. He then spoke about a decentralized education system and the importance to centralize it. He then concluded his speech by telling us the Skills required to enter the top 5 MBA colleges. Our last speaker for the day was Dr. Shiv Prakash Hiramauth. He spoke about a variety of things in his 45 minutes speech one that covered almost all aspects of conclave schedule. He told us in detail about the regulatory bodies of higher education and explained to us what they are all about and how do they function. He then spoke about the most important factor of the education industry, its stake holders us. He told us that these stake holders, students needed to show real passion. He advised to advocate a faculty exchange programme like we would go about in a student exchange programme. He advocated a change in the way and method of teaching.
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