The Swiss Consulate General for South India, Rolf Frei, visited the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) Satellite Campus at Infopark, Kochi.
The Consul General, who visited the campus yesterday, was welcomed and facilitated on a tour of campus by a team of IIMK faculty members and staff comprising C. Raju (Chairman, EPGP), Abhilash Nair (Faculty in Finance), Cedric Thomas (Academic Administration) Bhupesh (Campus Development Officer).
IIMK would soon be launching an Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management - Part Time in April. This would be followed by a one-year full time, residential advanced post-graduate programme in management for participants with substantial experience.
Debashis Chatterjee, Director, IIMK, said as IIMK aims to work as a catalyst for creating serious academic collaborations with internationally reputed institutions for offering high-end executive programmes, the visit of Swiss Consulate General to the Kochi campus has given a major fillip to our endeavours.
Frei spoke of various facets of Switzerland including its education system and commerce. He spoke on the vocational skill development programme offered by the institutions in Switzerland as a public-private partnership initiative.