Letters to the editor
Business schools to make their curricula life-oriented
Sir,
It should prove to be very useful if our universities that offer degrees in business studies, also include courses on the behaviour patterns of the Chinese, Japanese and other fast emerging Asian economies for the obvious reasons that our economic interactions are fast growing with them.. They should reduce their entirely North American tradition.
Jobair is a business graduate from East West University. I asked him whether his academic schooling was of any help when it comes to learning cross cultural business etiquettes. No, it wasnt, he said. Our business schools still dont educate students on the dynamics of cross cultural etiquettes. I had to train and educate myself in real life situations, Jobair said. I talked to Jishu Tarafder last week, a veteran corporate trainer. He commented that the education system in our country is faulty and it is not career oriented. He felt that the business schools need to work a lot to make their curriculum more career oriented, instead of getting the students go through books written in the North American perspective.
And we see the real life reflection of Jishus comments through the experiences Jobair went through. Business schools in Bangladesh could rethink and reshape their curricula to cater to the needs of this era and ever-changing scenario in the highly competitive business arena.
Salahuddin Babar
Niketan, Gulshan
Dhaka
