emerging trends and challenges in technical education

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Emerging trends and challenges

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of technical education

Kuldeep Chourasia

MTECH.ED

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CHALLENGES IN TECHNICALEDUCATION

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Quality of pass outs

A huge gap between requirement of industry

and Proficiency of pass outs

1 million graduate engineers pass outs everyyear in India.

NASSCOM reports says that only 10% of them

are skilled for job

There is still a great requirement of competent

engineers

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Quality of pass outs

Quantitative expansion in Technical Education

without simultaneous Quality assurance

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Rapid change in technology

There is continuous and rapid change in

technology in most branches of engineering

The present system of education adoptchanges very slowly

Curriculum evaluation and curriculum reforms

are done occasionally.

Often students are taught outdated

curriculum and irrelevant content

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Lack of competent faculties

Technical Students prefer to make their career

in development fields.

Teaching is not given respect as job and isconsidered as second option.

Government has halted recruitment process in

public institutes.

Teachers are appointed on contract basis.

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Lack of competent faculties

Teachers are little interested in updating

themselves.

Institutes pay little attention on training oftheir teachers

Lack of availability of PhDs in Engineering for

faculty positions

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Imperfect policies

The policies designed and implemented by

GOI and AICTE are not designed perfectly and

have flaws.

This gives rise to bureaucracy , corruption ,

malpractices and mismanagement.

Monitoring of institutes and Implementationof programmes has pitfalls.

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Economic Fluctuations

The economic fluctuations creates imbalance

between various discipline

The recent boom in IT industry caused a

increase in admission capacity in this area ,

and other disciplines such as Civil were

closed.Later , recession in 2009 caused decline

in IT field and Unemployment grew

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Growing Demands

India is 2nd largest populated country(1.3

billion) with a growth rate of 8%.

There is a high need of skilled humanresources in engineering , production fields

A large number of youth look forward to make

their career in technical field

There is a great need for capacity expansion

of technical education

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Geographical Challenges

Geographically distributed learners.

Geographical barriers makes it difficult to

reach learners . non-uniformity in the distribution of Technical

Institutions in the country, causing regional

imbalances, and inter-state migration of

students

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Geographical Challenges

The Institutions in the rural and industrially-

backward areas are not as popular , leading to

unfilled capacity in these institutions.

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Social Challenges

Culture , society prevent learners to go for

higher education

Less females go for engineering education ascompared to boys.

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Finance

Talented students seek financial assistance

Scholarship system based on caste system

instead of ability and requirement. High Bank Interest for Education loans

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Infrastructure

Private institutes have no financial assistance

from government

There is deficiency of resources particularlylaboratory equipments instruments , IT

infrastructure and learning material

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Curriculum Gaps

Less attention is given for development of softskills such as communication , interpersonal ,creativity.

Evaluation system follows traditionalsummative approach which encouragescramming and focus is on certification ratherthan improvement in learning.

Less attention is given on extra-curricular andco-curricular activity

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Research

The research trend/culture in technical

education is deficient.

Plagiarism is often noticed. Students are not trained to take research

There is lack of proper guidance and support

financial assistance is lacking

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EMERGING TRENDS

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Capacity expansion

Scheme of the setting up of20 new IIITs on

PPP model

Involving private sector for Growth anddevelopment of technical education .

Involving foreign universities , countries to set

up campus in india.

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Capacity Expansion

Offering distance education programmes

through IGNOU and other Open Universities

(SOU).

Flexibility in education in term of time ,place

content through MPECS , correspondence

courses , part time courses ,online courses.

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Curriculum innovation

Integration of IT in all curriculum

Development of entrepreneurial skills through

entrepreneurship development programmes Competency based curriculum ,learning and

evaluation

Starting Integrated Courses such asMechatronics , MBA-TECH ,MTECH.ED.

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Curriculum Innovation

Focus on continuous assessment.

Eco friendly practices/methods

-Green curriculum-education for sustainable development

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Quality improvement

Use of ICT in Education is encouraged andassisted by GOI.

Quality assurance through accreditation and

certification by NBA , NACC , ABET , ISO

Assistance by World Bank through TEQUIPproject(1 & 2)

India is a provisional member of WashingtonAccord which helps in mobility and in creatinga global student.

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Quality Improvement

Certification from industry(employers)

Industry-institute-Interaction

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Quality improvement

Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP)

The Ministry of Human Resource Development launched inDecember, 2002 the Technical Education Quality ImprovementProgramme of Government of India (TEQIP) which aims toupscale and support ongoing efforts in improving quality oftechnical education and enhancing existing capacities of theinstitutions to become dynamic, demand-driven, qualityconscious, efficient and forward looking, responsive to rapideconomic and technological developments occurring both at

national and international levels. The Programme was conceivedand designed as a long term project to be implemented in 10-12years in 3 phases to support excellence and transformation inTechnical Education in the country.

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