Is IGNOU on the right track with its tourism school?
Hospitality Biz India reports that India’s top distance learning university, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is setting up a new school on tourism and hospitality management. And here is what is highly different and interesting about it - it plans to churn out 2.5 million students in ten years to feed manpower requirement tto the expanding hospitality industry.
The ‘School of Tourism and Hospitality Service Sectoral Management,’ will offer Bachelors, Masters, MPhil and PhD degrees. The learners will be taught and trained through a mix of online, face-to-face and open distance learning mode, said the officials.
I think this is a great move - we need all the manpower and more. My only concern is hat they will not be industry ready when they finish unless the university also comes up with a plan for some kind of mandatory industry training as part of the course.