The Indian School of Business (ISB) has released a curriculum review for the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), responding to the evolving business landscape, according to the press release.
The curriculum review has a three-pronged focus, which includes a move towards a more customised and flexible programme structure, given the diverse needs of the students, who come from backgrounds varying from engineering to the armed forces to art or sports. With it, learnability is the second pillar, as the school aims to apply more activity-based methods that are expected to build the ability to constantly learn. The third key point is a built-in system of renewal in the curriculum which aims to respond to future needs, as detailed in the release.
With this change, the revised curriculum, in its delivery, emphasises personalised and experiential learning opportunities, for which the newly set up Centre for Learning and Teaching Excellence expected to play a key role. It aims to drive continuous improvement in content and curriculum design.
As per the institute, the Technologists and cognitive psychologists will be part of this faculty-driven centre, and innovations will be driven by their expert inputs too.
To make space for innovations in the one-year programme, the school has also realigned the structure. While earlier there were standard six-week terms, now there are four ‘block weeks’ built in — making space for a variety of shorter-term courses in between the usual terms, as outlined in the release.
“In such a period of constant change, what one knows for sure is that people who have a variety of skills will succeed. But if you make the curriculum too rigid and give them what you think is ideal fit for this environment, it is simply not going to be enough for them down the line. So, that was the impetus for us to begin to examine it very carefully,”Madan Pillutla, dean at ISB, said.