FOUNDATION FOR LIBERAL AND MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (FLAME) – FLAME SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
POST GRADUATE PROGRAM
Management Education in India evokes images of professionalism, competencies, capabilities, and excellence. There is a vision of breaking new frontiers of knowledge, identifying appropriate state of the art skills and generating relevant attitudes. Management Education is associated with efficiency, effectiveness, quality, productivity and taking the Indian organizations into the globalized economy in liberalized India. Management Education also evokes images of premier management institutions like Indian Institutes of Management with world-class faculty, brilliant students – the intellectual capital and resource of the country, guaranteed jobs and high flying and high living life styles of the young professionals. The media splash and cover the placement activity of the management institutions in general and IIMs in specific where the young graduates are being wooed by the national and international recruiters to the fast track career path to become the future CEOs of national and global organizations.
FLAME also offers Management Education as a unique discipline as compared to the disciplines of science, arts and commerce. Management Education is all about real life situations of work settings, business environment both national and global, organization strategies, structure, systems and processes, the multiple functions, leadership roles and people across levels of the organization and their dynamic interplay with each other. FLAME also anchors its management education in the context of the social, cultural, economic and business realities of the country as well as the present times of growth and vibrancy of the youth. Moreover, management education also constantly deals with embedded and emerging business and people realities. These issues have to be addressed and resolved in the context in which they are occurring. Borrowed solutions, theories and theoretical frameworks and concepts available through research and literature may not really work. As such, management education and its curriculum and content are closely linked to the context in which the issues are to be addressed and to the industry, its focus and changes occurring in the industry and the country.
FLAME offers a two year residential post graduate program anchored in Liberal Education (LE). This means that the students of management also take courses in humanities, social sciences and performing arts. FLAME has designed and structured its management curriculum with global courses wherein UGs and PGs jointly study philosophy, psychology, sociology, comparative religion, managing multi cultures and similar other courses. The other unique features of FSB are:-
i. Induction labs to facilitate transition from home and education to residential education institutions.
ii. Sports (both individual and team sports) is mandatory.
iii. Understanding of Developmental Activities through NGOs ( Developmental Activity Program)
iv. Discover India Project (DIP) to touch and experience the heritage of the country and ones own identity.
v. International languages such as French, German Spanish and Japanese
vi. Elite leadership program for high performing students which ends with an army exercise
vii. Personal growth and Identity labs to understand their self in the larger socio-cultural and human existence.
viii. Mentoring wherein a faculty works with 8-10 students.
ix. Students live in apartments of one, two and three bedrooms so that they live study and learn from each other.
x. FLAME Investment Lab
xi. Entrepreneurship which includes Discover India Project, Development Activity Program
xii. Rural Marketing Fair
xiii. Rural Entrepreneurship Appreciation Program
The very fact that students from multiple programs at FLAME live on the same campus and share the same infrastructures of dining, sports, Elite Leadership, Performing Arts and various activities creates spaces where silos of age barriers, learning and specific programs opens up for students to relate with each other.
FLAME creates an environment where students meet and live with a diverse set of people. This helps to accept similarities and differences and understand why people behave the way they do. Students experience and discover the context from where each one has come and grown up in. Each one comes from different socio-economic, socio cultural and educational backgrounds and a very different upbringing from families. They live with each other and discover their own and others stereotypes as well learn to appreciate each others strengths and uniqueness. Students learn to appreciate the richness of diversity and the plurality of our country.
Faculties at FLAME are from diverse educational backgrounds with rich cumulative experience and wisdom. They have taught both in national and international settings. Visiting Faculty from prestigious national and international institutions teach their domain expertise courses while spending time on the Campus. The Visiting Faculty are available to the students for dialogues and discussions. Four international languages are offered and with possibilities of visits to the country of the language the students are learning. FLAME has several international collaborations wherein the students have the possibility of exchange visits. Students participate in competitive sports, FLAME Fest and also visit other campuses to show their talent. FLAME has won many awards in prestigious events like MOOD Indigo. FLAME has placement facilities with a very active academic industry interface. Speakers from industry, financial sector, investment sector, NGOs, IT sector and other sectors frequently and regularly visit FLAME to address and interact with the students.
FLAME is a place and a space for each student to discover their intellectual abilities, reaching out to life and people, discovering the art of bringing their best to themselves to enter the world of work. The students have the time and the space to grow up in an intellectually stimulating environment so that they carry the art of life, dedication and commitment to the spaces they will create, shape and build.
Welcome to FLAME which helps you discover your moreness – www.flame.edu.in.
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