I think "Bread and Butter" issues should be an integral part of education. As they say in India "Bhuke Bhajan Na Hoi Gopala, Yeu leo apni kanthi mala"'! In the modern society, we have coined the phrase"Living well" but it does require resources and money these days. In the same spirit, Shakespear also mentioned, that " I am yet to meet a philosopher bearing his toothache patiently!" Of course, education has many other purposes other than just preparing for a job. We need to look where we are today and what is needed to survive at this time. Even Indian Babas, priests and brokers of spirituality are rolling in money.
Kuldeep Nagi, PhD66-846374466
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Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Industry consultation in engineering colleges: Useless idea from AICTE
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--The employability of engineering graduates in India has been a matter of concern for the last several decades. Many reports have stated that only 20-25% of the graduates are employable in industry. A recent report has mentioned that only 5% of computer science and information technology graduates (a majority of our engineers are in these disciplines) have any reasonable programming skills, which is the most basic skill for such a graduate. Another 15% can still be trained to perform tasks in IT industry.
Whenever a new report comes out, there are immediate calls for greater interaction between industry and academia and to have more industry-focussed curricula in colleges. And seeing that such calls have not had any impact on the ground level, AICTE has announced that such interaction will now be mandatory. Each college must have an industry consultation committee to rework the curriculum of each course taught there every year.
AICTE appears to have forgotten that it regulates only affiliated colleges, and it has very little regulatory control over universities. Affiliated colleges have no control over their curriculum. They teach the curriculum that the affiliating university decides. These universities are expected to have a Board of Studies for each program, and that board invariably has members from industry as well. So there is already an industry input to the curriculum design. Now, if a college creates such a committee and the industry person advises even small modifications to the courses, can the college implement these modifications? The answer, unfortunately, is in the negative for all colleges, barring a few "autonomous" ones.
Source: HT
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