The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, (IIM-B) has entered into a partnership with Hughes Escorts Communication Ltd (HECL) to offer a host of long-term programmes to working executives over the Hughes’ Direcway Global Education Platform.

These specialised programmes cater to the needs of a broad spectrum of industries. In the coming years, IIM Bangalore will also target international markets such as Sri Lanka, Singapore and parts of West Asia.

Two new programmes - Advanced General Management Program (AGMP) for IT and ITES professionals (AGMP) and Executive General Management Programme (EGMP) - are slated for launch in the next two months. These on-campus programmes will be beamed live instantaneously to 47 Direcway Global Education classrooms located at 35 cities across India.

NEW DELHI OCT. 5. Using technology once again as the bridging force, the Hughes Direcway Global Education Platform has launched three new courses as part of its new tie-up with Cornell University.

The prestigious university will be offering three of its popular courses in general management, human resource management and hospitality management through the virtual classrooms of Hughes that currently offer management programmes on the same medium through their tie- up with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode and Xaviers Labour Research Institute (XLRI). To be delivered across ten cities of the country, the programme is now open for working professionals.

Founded In 1865, Cornell University is a private endowed university and federal land-grant institution of New York State. A member of the Ivy League and partner of the State University of New York, it established the first four- year school of hotel administration and industrial and labour relations.

The general management courses are for mid level to senior level managers who want to upgrade their existing fundamental skills.

BANGALORE: The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, one of India’s premier business schools, has announced the launch of the first interactive Management Education Programme - the Executive Management Education Programme (eMEP).
The eMEP is a post-graduate certificate programme in management, which will be delivered via the satellite-based DirecWay Global Education platform across 9 cities in India - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Chandigarh and Kozhikode.
The eMEP is a one-year, 240-hour programme to be conducted across 14 centres in 9 cities across India two days a week. More than 3200 potential students had registered on the internet, expressing interest in the program - and 120 students were selected after considering the results of a written entrance test and level of work experience.
The programme is targeted at the working professionals and is designed to impart general management skills to enhance effectiveness of their decision-making and management skills.
The preparatory sessions for the first eMEP course will start off on May 9, 2002 from the HECL Studio at Gurgaon. The estimated cost of the program is Rs 1,05,000.
Announcing the tie-up, AH Kalro, Director, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode said, “The eMEP programme, initiated by The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode is an effort to broad base management education program across India. We have been able to combine IIMK’s competence in creating customised management content - and HECL’s competence in delivering it across the country. We believe that this platform (DirecWay Global Education) offers the perfect balance that redefines the concept of classroom education, retaining all its benefits and improving its reach and enhancing collaborative group learning.”