appreciate on-the-ground
realities and challenges faced by those at the bottom of the pyramid.
The local NGO partners serve as a liaison and
host for the students.
The students have to execute predefined group
assignments to develop an understanding of socio-economic status and resources
of a village through participatory rural appraisal methods.
Students conduct for
example door-to-door surveys, focus group discussions and informal discussions.
Because of the classroom lessons
on Indian social and political environment,
students show solid knowledge when
preparing and executing their assignments.
Some of the assignments that IIMU
students have previously undertaken are:
assessing the opportunity gap that
exists for village youth and understanding the daily workload of rural women
and analyzing
how this affects their health.
The assignments are recognized
locally as the student’s finding on malnutrition and open defecation
in the
villages was covered in the local media and presented to the local
administration and government officials.
Because of the rural immersion
program, IIMU students are better equipped to craft policies or come up with
new programs or strategies at the rural level.
Learn more: iimu.ac.in/values-based-education-through-rural-Immersion
Upcoming Events
Annual Accreditation Conference:
Asia Pacific
26–28 May 2019 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Assurance of
Learning Seminar I
27–28 March
2019 | Bangkok, Thailand
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Learning Seminar II
29–30 March
2019 | Bangkok, Thailand
Business
Accreditation Seminar
25–26 March
2019 | Bangkok, Thailand
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Conference and Annual Meeting (ICAM)
14–16 April
2019 | Edinburgh, Scotland
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24 May 2019 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Standards and Tables Workshop
24 June 2019
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