Yathindra
06-01-2006, 08:28 PM
Yathindra L Associate Professor - Accessory DesignNational Institute of Fashion Technology(Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India)Bangalore 560 034, Karnataka, India
MISSION
India 2020 - Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam.
India’s human resource base is one of its greatest core competences. It is India’s strength. The technology Vision documents advocate the formation of a human resource cadre that will be of foundation of the action packages of the country in the near future.
“Give me 300 people, I shall change the world” – Swami Vivekananda, this is realistic and more practical even today with lot of inspiration from this great man and the present day youth who can contribute to India’s economy, who are open minded and highly intelligent, India needs to inculcate more of oneness spirit as a driving element.
Technical Education in India – At a Glance
Within a diverse and complex society like India there are about 1346 colleges of Engineering including 7 IITs, 4 IIITs. 3 BITS, DCE and 17 NITs. 7 Technological Universities, 445 colleges of Pharmacy, 228 Institutes of Architecture, around 1500 Management Institutions including 7 IIMs. The Intake for Architecture has about 3560 and 24,672 in pharmacy, the consolidated way the country is producing about 4,39,689 engineering graduates every years this is includes the exportable surplus compared to china where a similar number pass out every year, but major piece of share are absorbed by the domestic industry itself. Among these Karnataka contributes 44,000 engineering graduates from its 180-odd colleges, Tamilnadu contributes 94,000 engineering graduates from its 280-odd colleges, Andhara Pradesh contributes 74,000 engineering graduates from its 250-odd colleges, Maharastra contributes 85,000 engineering graduates from its 260-odd colleges, etc.,
VISION
Few of the pressing problems could be, Lack of Research culture in Institutes, lack of competent teaching career, Obsolescence of Laboratories, Obsolescence of Curriculum, Ever reducing half-life of knowledge, Poor interaction with Industry, etc.,
Creating Enterprise Spirit among the students.
Creative research does not require a large team nor expensive equipments but Innovative projects lead to innovative products. Establish Innovations and Knowledge cells. Promote student’s companies. Establish technology incubators in UG Institutions, the move of making regional engineering colleges, as national institute of technology is more welcoming.
New Horizons
Creating strong foundations for India’s Educational System going beyond today’s educational advantage. To maximize benefits for Indian from Global Knowledge based society, key challenge is to create world-class quality culture, establish networks and set up knowledge centers within the institutions, Transform educational institutions into world class Knowledge Enterprises.
For example: Dual Degree programme like BE & MBA, BE & MTech, etc.,
Develop partnership in new and emerging areas like medical engineering, Bio- informatics, Nano -Technology, VLSI design and embodied systems, Bio-Chips, Bio-sensor, Clean energy technologies, Infrastructure Engineering, Knowledge and innovation management. The 3D Model (Theory, market and experience) is one of kind where an engineering student grasps power could closing be monitored. Build a global campus with quality education and provide educational services across the globe. It is not right to ensure quality by choking capacity,
Building Strong educational Foundations
Create core competence by world-class infrastructure, motivate energetic, enthusiastic and create young minds to take up faculty positions. Develop academic environment turned to scholarship and professional excellence. Integrate creative research and technology incubation in academic environment. Provide support mechanism for transfer of knowledge into prosperity technopreneruship. To give a new dimension, India needs to setup more academies of excellence going to grass-root level to tap talents with a free unbiased growth emphasis.
OPPORTUNITIES
Maximizing benefits for India through Leveraging of ICT to create educational advantage, Revitalizing higher education by extending and diversifying delivery, establish synergetic partnership between educational institutions, industries and R & D organizations, creating the TROIKA. Invest in networking and developing knowledge centers, Create alliances and partnerships with global educational leaders at home and abroad. For example about 3,00,000 engineers are employed alone in Bangalore city as on 2005, which indicates that the huge unfilled gap in demand for quality engineers. Incase all other cities in India just transformed into photocopies of Bangalore, unbeatably India would be the world’s largest technological super power creating horizon of benchmark for all existing developed economies.
Creating Advantage to India in Higher Education by mounting a national mission on creating teaching excellence. Promote team teaching by leveraging ICT, to improve Teaching Quality. Create research relevance by collaborative research - focus largely on current problems. Foster research and innovative product development thereby creating joy of learning.
CHALLENGES
Challenges to be faced are, explosion of knowledge, management of knowledge, using technology to leverage advantage education, Integrating ICT with education. Major challenges of higher education in India are attracting motivated faculty, curriculum innovation and examinations reforms, establishing synergetic partnerships with industries and R & D organizations, developing a research culture, creating enterprising spirit in students, creating world-class infrastructure.
1. Challenge of curriculum design: Make curriculum flexible and create a thinking curriculum. Give more emphasis on simulation, modeling and advance computations in order to bridge the gap between a Graduate Engineer and a Professional Engineer. Seminars, group discussions and industry presentations must be given regular slots. Utilize more Case studies, more opportunities for exposure through minor projects and industry oriented major projects. Develop course on professional values and engineering ethics.
2. Challenge of R & D Culture: In our country 99% of technical institutions are UG institutions. The challenge of R & D can be met by promoting research orientation at UG level as is done in advanced countries. Lap innovative and research capabilities of talented UG students. Promote post graduation in institutions, which are more than five years old. Promoting creative research.
3. Challenge of Lab excellence: The Present laboratories are mere demonstration units, which Lack Innovative experiments, Lack knowledge oriented experiments, do not inspire students to improve state of art.
Corrective measures
Promote innovation, develop experiments to invoke a sense of inquiry & computer-assisted experiments, create laboratories to promote research orientation. Utilize laboratory facilities for industrial consultancy to recover cost of investment.
1. Faculty shortage
· Teaching not a preferred profession.
· Lack of appreciation of role of teaching
· Require teachers to perform a triple role – expert teacher, investigating scientist and practicing technologist simultaneously
· Joy of life long learning and enlightenment to be the inspiration
2. Meeting Faculty Shortage
· Some of the suggested measures
· Team teaching – core teacher, industry expert, expert from leading institutions on India and abroad
· IT-enabled academic environment and EDUSAT utilization
· Teaching cum research assistant ships in selected institutions
· Review of QIP programmes for faculty development.
3. Challenge of teaching excellence
· Delivering curriculum to meet the end objectives
· Object oriented teaching
· Preparing learning material and its advantage dissemination
· Improve teaching effectiveness by including greater use of ICT enabled environment
4. Enhancing Teaching effectiveness
· Develop learning resources
· Create web-enabled classrooms
· Improve classroom deliveries by combining text with multimedia
· Monitor pace of learning by carefully designed feedback systems
· Interactive dialogue in classrooms & bulletin boards
5. Creating world-class infrastructure
· Technology savvy campus
· Good laboratory practices
· Energy efficiency and environmental Awareness
· Campus practicing well designed academic and professional codes
· Conformance to world class Quality in teaching & research
6. Working in a global era
· Age of alliances, collaborations and co-operation
· Co-operation and collaborations to create advantage education, advantage research advantage product development, advantage global reach and finally creating and sharing wealth and prosperity
· Working together is absolutely necessary.
Conclusion
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) should increase its intake to around 30,000 from the current 1200. Although India is good at Asian level, but from global perspective a lot has to be done in management, life sciences and engineering. Incase we wish to take the current $ 800 billion GDP growing at 7 to 8% across our immediate neighbor of $1.7 trillion China GDP, which is growing at 9%, then we would just need another 400 another IITs to suffice.
Concluding remarks are All Indian Board of PG Studies of HRD having the privilege to revitalize higher education should focus immediately focus with priorities on these five point agenda:
1. Curriculum innovation
2. Promoting teaching excellence
3. Promoting research culture
4. Motivating institutions to create world-class infrastructure
5. Create environment for innovation & KM
The three commands
For all “every one – knows something, but me one knows everything”
For Faculty “Network, synergies and excel else perish”
For students “Go beyond the limits of the knowledge of your teachers”
MISSION
India 2020 - Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam.
India’s human resource base is one of its greatest core competences. It is India’s strength. The technology Vision documents advocate the formation of a human resource cadre that will be of foundation of the action packages of the country in the near future.
“Give me 300 people, I shall change the world” – Swami Vivekananda, this is realistic and more practical even today with lot of inspiration from this great man and the present day youth who can contribute to India’s economy, who are open minded and highly intelligent, India needs to inculcate more of oneness spirit as a driving element.
Technical Education in India – At a Glance
Within a diverse and complex society like India there are about 1346 colleges of Engineering including 7 IITs, 4 IIITs. 3 BITS, DCE and 17 NITs. 7 Technological Universities, 445 colleges of Pharmacy, 228 Institutes of Architecture, around 1500 Management Institutions including 7 IIMs. The Intake for Architecture has about 3560 and 24,672 in pharmacy, the consolidated way the country is producing about 4,39,689 engineering graduates every years this is includes the exportable surplus compared to china where a similar number pass out every year, but major piece of share are absorbed by the domestic industry itself. Among these Karnataka contributes 44,000 engineering graduates from its 180-odd colleges, Tamilnadu contributes 94,000 engineering graduates from its 280-odd colleges, Andhara Pradesh contributes 74,000 engineering graduates from its 250-odd colleges, Maharastra contributes 85,000 engineering graduates from its 260-odd colleges, etc.,
VISION
Few of the pressing problems could be, Lack of Research culture in Institutes, lack of competent teaching career, Obsolescence of Laboratories, Obsolescence of Curriculum, Ever reducing half-life of knowledge, Poor interaction with Industry, etc.,
Creating Enterprise Spirit among the students.
Creative research does not require a large team nor expensive equipments but Innovative projects lead to innovative products. Establish Innovations and Knowledge cells. Promote student’s companies. Establish technology incubators in UG Institutions, the move of making regional engineering colleges, as national institute of technology is more welcoming.
New Horizons
Creating strong foundations for India’s Educational System going beyond today’s educational advantage. To maximize benefits for Indian from Global Knowledge based society, key challenge is to create world-class quality culture, establish networks and set up knowledge centers within the institutions, Transform educational institutions into world class Knowledge Enterprises.
For example: Dual Degree programme like BE & MBA, BE & MTech, etc.,
Develop partnership in new and emerging areas like medical engineering, Bio- informatics, Nano -Technology, VLSI design and embodied systems, Bio-Chips, Bio-sensor, Clean energy technologies, Infrastructure Engineering, Knowledge and innovation management. The 3D Model (Theory, market and experience) is one of kind where an engineering student grasps power could closing be monitored. Build a global campus with quality education and provide educational services across the globe. It is not right to ensure quality by choking capacity,
Building Strong educational Foundations
Create core competence by world-class infrastructure, motivate energetic, enthusiastic and create young minds to take up faculty positions. Develop academic environment turned to scholarship and professional excellence. Integrate creative research and technology incubation in academic environment. Provide support mechanism for transfer of knowledge into prosperity technopreneruship. To give a new dimension, India needs to setup more academies of excellence going to grass-root level to tap talents with a free unbiased growth emphasis.
OPPORTUNITIES
Maximizing benefits for India through Leveraging of ICT to create educational advantage, Revitalizing higher education by extending and diversifying delivery, establish synergetic partnership between educational institutions, industries and R & D organizations, creating the TROIKA. Invest in networking and developing knowledge centers, Create alliances and partnerships with global educational leaders at home and abroad. For example about 3,00,000 engineers are employed alone in Bangalore city as on 2005, which indicates that the huge unfilled gap in demand for quality engineers. Incase all other cities in India just transformed into photocopies of Bangalore, unbeatably India would be the world’s largest technological super power creating horizon of benchmark for all existing developed economies.
Creating Advantage to India in Higher Education by mounting a national mission on creating teaching excellence. Promote team teaching by leveraging ICT, to improve Teaching Quality. Create research relevance by collaborative research - focus largely on current problems. Foster research and innovative product development thereby creating joy of learning.
CHALLENGES
Challenges to be faced are, explosion of knowledge, management of knowledge, using technology to leverage advantage education, Integrating ICT with education. Major challenges of higher education in India are attracting motivated faculty, curriculum innovation and examinations reforms, establishing synergetic partnerships with industries and R & D organizations, developing a research culture, creating enterprising spirit in students, creating world-class infrastructure.
1. Challenge of curriculum design: Make curriculum flexible and create a thinking curriculum. Give more emphasis on simulation, modeling and advance computations in order to bridge the gap between a Graduate Engineer and a Professional Engineer. Seminars, group discussions and industry presentations must be given regular slots. Utilize more Case studies, more opportunities for exposure through minor projects and industry oriented major projects. Develop course on professional values and engineering ethics.
2. Challenge of R & D Culture: In our country 99% of technical institutions are UG institutions. The challenge of R & D can be met by promoting research orientation at UG level as is done in advanced countries. Lap innovative and research capabilities of talented UG students. Promote post graduation in institutions, which are more than five years old. Promoting creative research.
3. Challenge of Lab excellence: The Present laboratories are mere demonstration units, which Lack Innovative experiments, Lack knowledge oriented experiments, do not inspire students to improve state of art.
Corrective measures
Promote innovation, develop experiments to invoke a sense of inquiry & computer-assisted experiments, create laboratories to promote research orientation. Utilize laboratory facilities for industrial consultancy to recover cost of investment.
1. Faculty shortage
· Teaching not a preferred profession.
· Lack of appreciation of role of teaching
· Require teachers to perform a triple role – expert teacher, investigating scientist and practicing technologist simultaneously
· Joy of life long learning and enlightenment to be the inspiration
2. Meeting Faculty Shortage
· Some of the suggested measures
· Team teaching – core teacher, industry expert, expert from leading institutions on India and abroad
· IT-enabled academic environment and EDUSAT utilization
· Teaching cum research assistant ships in selected institutions
· Review of QIP programmes for faculty development.
3. Challenge of teaching excellence
· Delivering curriculum to meet the end objectives
· Object oriented teaching
· Preparing learning material and its advantage dissemination
· Improve teaching effectiveness by including greater use of ICT enabled environment
4. Enhancing Teaching effectiveness
· Develop learning resources
· Create web-enabled classrooms
· Improve classroom deliveries by combining text with multimedia
· Monitor pace of learning by carefully designed feedback systems
· Interactive dialogue in classrooms & bulletin boards
5. Creating world-class infrastructure
· Technology savvy campus
· Good laboratory practices
· Energy efficiency and environmental Awareness
· Campus practicing well designed academic and professional codes
· Conformance to world class Quality in teaching & research
6. Working in a global era
· Age of alliances, collaborations and co-operation
· Co-operation and collaborations to create advantage education, advantage research advantage product development, advantage global reach and finally creating and sharing wealth and prosperity
· Working together is absolutely necessary.
Conclusion
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) should increase its intake to around 30,000 from the current 1200. Although India is good at Asian level, but from global perspective a lot has to be done in management, life sciences and engineering. Incase we wish to take the current $ 800 billion GDP growing at 7 to 8% across our immediate neighbor of $1.7 trillion China GDP, which is growing at 9%, then we would just need another 400 another IITs to suffice.
Concluding remarks are All Indian Board of PG Studies of HRD having the privilege to revitalize higher education should focus immediately focus with priorities on these five point agenda:
1. Curriculum innovation
2. Promoting teaching excellence
3. Promoting research culture
4. Motivating institutions to create world-class infrastructure
5. Create environment for innovation & KM
The three commands
For all “every one – knows something, but me one knows everything”
For Faculty “Network, synergies and excel else perish”
For students “Go beyond the limits of the knowledge of your teachers”