emerging trends and challenges in technical education
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Emerging trends and challenges
ahead
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Often students are taught outdated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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