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IIMs want
more girls, non-engineering students
Monday November 15, 2010 10:58:51 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata:
The Indian Institutes of Management are now looking to rope in
more girl students and those with non-engineering background to
get a more diversified variety on their rolls.
Directors of five IIMs from across the country Monday held a
conference and felt the need to change the quantitative bias in
the Common Admission Test (CAT) to draw in more students in their
classrooms from diverse academic backgrounds.
Giving a wrap-up of the discussion, Indian Institute of
Management-Calcutta director Sekhar Chowdhury said the issues
would be dealt with seriously though it was not yet certain that
the changes could take place from next year's CAT.
"In many cases, despite efforts to get in students from other
backgrounds, the number of engineering students has increased. The
blame is on our admission process. We need to change how we admit
students and how CAT is organised," said IIM-Lucknow director Devi
Singh.
Singh said though a large section of the faculty would not have
been favourably disposed to the idea of having a greater diversity
in students, "now the realisation has dawned on them and in the
next few years we may see a change in the system".
IIM-Bangalore director Pankaj Chandra felt girl students found the
CAT examination with its stress on mathematics a deterrent.
"That's the reason many girl students do not sit for the entrance
test".
Statistics show that about 2 lakh students take the annual CAT
examination for admission to 2,000 seats in the country's ten IIMs.
Of them, the percentage of engineers gaining entry into the
premier B-Schools is over 90 per cent, while the percentage of
female students is only 10-15 percent taking all the IIMs
together.
Chowdhury said while the world has a nearly 50:50 ratio of men and
women, "why cannot we have a similar or more or less equal
representation in the classroom? After all, the class should
represent life."
He said on the contrary, private management institutes had a 40-45
percent girl students.
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