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IIPM and will shut its campuses across India one by one
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Controversial business school Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), run by Arindam Chaudhuri, has decided to stop offering management courses and confine itself to research and training, the institute said on its website.
IIPM has stopped admitting students directly from the current year, and will shut its campuses across India one by one.
“From 2015, IIPM has entered into technical collaboration of knowledge sharing with various institutions in India and has stopped taking direct admissions," the announcement on the website said.
“All IIPM campuses now only have old students and these campuses are being shut down as and when old batches finish their courses," the admission section in the website said.
“IIPM will be operative only in Delhi as a research and training institution, the training will be imparted only to corporates or institutions who enter into a technical collaboration of knowledge sharing with IIPM," the announcement added.
A few months ago, IIPM put out an advertisements in The Times Of India newspaper calling itself IIPM 2.0; it was in the nature of a teaser advertisement that didn’t elaborate on the institute’s intention.
IIPM has attracted controversy in the past. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has warned on occasions that IIPM was not recognized by it. The apex higher education regulator also cautioned that IIPM wasn’t a university and isn’t eligible to grant degrees.
Last year, the Delhi high court censured IIPM and its founder Chaudhuri for misleading students into believing that it possessed the approvals to offer master of business administration (MBA) and bachelor of business administration (BBA) programmes. Chaudhuri said then that IIPM would challenge the ruling.
Chaudhuri said over the phone on Thursday that he had already reduced the number of campuses from 12 in 2011 to six in 2012 and now decided to pare the number to one. He said that instead of catering to a few thousand students, IIPM will now cater to hundreds of thousands by forming partnerships with other institutions.
“We are transforming," he said. “IIPM will now basically come back through knowledge partnership as IIPM 2.0… The aim is to give our real edge in economics, entrepreneurship, leadership and strategy to lakhs instead of thousands through knowledge partnerships with hundreds of institutions…," Chaudhuri said.
IIPM has already tied up with two institutes—one in Greater Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi and the other in Hyderabad—and aims to form partnerships with 30 institutes by the year end, Chaudhuri said.
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