City B-school pushes for anti-corruption as MBA course subject

BENGALURU: MBA students at Bangalore University’s Canara Bank School of Management (CBSM) will have anti-corruption as a subject from the next academic year.

The university is already using a UN-developed toolkit to groom young managers to blow the whistle on corporate fraud. Positive response from students has prompted the business school to introduce a subject on anti-corruption from the 2016-17 academic year, CBSM director K Janardhanam said Monday.

“Once the board of studies clears it, we will be the first university in India to have anti-corruption as a subject in our syllabus,” he said. The university has over 6,000 MBA students on its rolls, including 63 affiliated colleges.

“Contents can be modified any time. Once cleared by the board of studies, we will get the remaining statutory approvals for it,” Vice-Chancellor B Thimme Gowda said, on the sidelines of a press conference to announce that the university would host a 2-day international conference themed ‘global convergence of management education and practices’ on November 25-26.

Gowda added that the university would consider introducing anti-corruption as a compulsory subject at the undergraduate level. “It is certainly interesting and useful. We’ll discuss this.”