This is about my bad experience of the Course conducted by IIM Calcutta which is conducted in coordination of Hughes education and Access education.
Access education is the local training institute for us and it will be different for different cities.
They have a misleading excellent marketing literature and have all the marketing steps to attract news students.
I fell to that, the course was promised to start on a certain date and a huge advance in the tune to Rs 80, 000/- was taken, but the course is delayed by 3 months. They do not bother to convey the right reason, it is obvious that they enjoy the interest on this huge amount.
They also take all the fee in advance.
Ultimately the course starts and here is the experience that I had,
1) With regards to the way in which this class is conducted, the best way would be to give a example :)
Here is a example of the Finance class
Class No#1 :- Professor repeats the same things that he had taught in the Campus visit, he was exhausted and was yawning throughout the class.
Class No#2 :- Was comparatively a good class and it went good, apart from seeing a exhausted professor.
Class No#3 :- Network problem, class starts late, Professor calls Hughes in front of us to check the status, Hughes says everything is fine, Professor says I can't do anything and he will finish the class and we can hear the recordings later on. He does the class with 30 to 40 attendees (out of a batch of 170) and with continuous network problems.
Class No#4 :- He starts the discussion on 2 Case Studies which were never given to us, even on repeatedly telling he does it and ultimately stops to check from their executive if they have been given to us. She incorrectly tells that they have been uploaded and he again starts, but when we all again tell the reality he stops that class. He finishes the remaining class by discussing another topic which he had already discussed while we were in the campus.
Class No#5 and 6 were comparatively good.
None of these things are my complaints, there are recordings of these sessions and any one can check the ground reality of this course.
To give a few other examples,
One particular professor spends 50% of the class time in changing the controls to the user and back to him, even though it is a known fact that technology never works that too with a huge batch to 170 students.
In another professors class, students openly tell him that he is boring us by not teaching correctly, unfortunately he is having a huge experience and is supposed to be a good professor. We end up attending a boring Marketing class which should have been one of the most interesting one.
Most of the professors use the ready-made slides given by the book manufacturers and just read them out, there is no creative original teaching one can easily read the slides and learn the topic taught by the professor, there is no need to learn from a institute like IIM.
There are professors who come consistently late and do not acknowledge it.
To sum up, the professors are supposed to be the best in the world and hence we cannot raise our voice, on the other hand for them it is one of the least important thing and hence they do not show the dedication or interest in teaching for us.
I don’t say all the courses went on like this, but the trend is similar, incidents might be different.
2) Exams, they have a schedule which is never followed, exams are cancelled/postponed frequently and that too at the last minute, results are declared on a huge follow up, they say is percentile based but it is not, the exam will be online and expect huge delay while moving from one question to another and also network outage which is not acknowledged by them.
It is a pain to attend classes in such a way after paying such a huge amount and attending the classes with lot of time management.
3) Books, they never reach on time, they are delayed again no response or positive response from Hughes, IIM or Access education. But luckily the exams can be given without books, the presentation slides and attending the class will help. On the other hand that also tells the level of this course.
4) they say that we need to do a project, even after submitting the project topic as per their deadline we do not know if we should do it or not even after 2 months of that deadline. No guide assigned yet, no reply to emails from the all the responsible entities. Again, that tells the seriousness of the institutes.
5) Schedule changes, Quite frequently, difficult for a working professional to plan. Actually the course runs as per the convenience of the professors and there is no consideration given to the 170 students attending this course.
To Sum up:-
There is no seriousness on the part of professors. It is a course for the Professors, Hughes and Access Education to make some good money at their convenience, there is no seriousness on delivery of the content or the concern of 150 guys enrolled in it. We cannot raise the voice against any one as there are 3 entities and the host organization and professors who teach us are supposed to be the best in the world. There are 4 program directors from IIM and hence it is difficult to approach any one of them to get firm input, rather there are cases where we see that they do not have coordination between themselves. It is like a blame game, if we talk to professors they tell us to talk to Hughes and other way round.
On the other hand they are very sincere about the fees, deadlines are rigid and they disable the ID if we do not pay it one time. In our case, after paying all the initially agreed fee they come up with a new amount which is supposed to be service tax and they disabled the ID for that new fee requested by them without any consideration for the 99% fee that has been already paid to them.
Be aware that this course has no recognition and is just a training program, rather be aware that any course in India which is taking service tax is not a recognized course. Government does not charge tax for recognized courses. Government is intelligent in taxing all such courses which are for pure money earning and have no education aspect involved in them.
Do not get carried away by the brand name of IIM Calcutta and the false promises done by the marketing literature.
My ID is disabled for the amount that they have requested now any almost 50% of my fess is lying around them and I cannot attend the classes.
They do not meticulously reply to emails or any other mode of communication and hence I am not able to get it right.
I have lost my money.
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