subject: Technical Education Challenges: Reasoning?! [print this page] Technical education under the control of AICTE has its fare share of trials. It handles a massive education system comprising an extensive set of institutes across the country. The variation in the system is huge and that explains the differences at the vertical and horizontal levels. The demand for a technical seat further increases the competition and with each passing year there is pressure to introduce newer systems so as to keep up with the times.
Technical education has an ever increasing requirement in the country as one extends the interest to his future generations comprising a family of engineers. The main concern is the striking difference in terms of infrastructure between the colleges. The suggestion in this regard is to aid the growth of colleges keeping the IITs and IISc to one side. In this manner, the rest of them can also strive to raise the education standard to an IIT level furthering an increase in its admissions. AICTE helps take care of these institutes under its auspices; the government should strive to take a hearty look at the colleges at infrastructure, faculty and mostly the quality of training. Working their way up would thus be encouraged and guided immensely.
An additional feature is a high count of vacant seats available when taken an overview. This would project a big question as the number of engineering aspirants is so many that there should ideally be a scarcity of seats. This vacant plot is to be done away with or there should be a means of filling the seats. The explanation of the AICTE in this regard is that the engineering aspirants fill up the related streams such as the electrical, civil and mechanical while the seats like IT and IN remain empty due to little relevance to the. This clearly indicates a bifurcation as the rural students are ignorant of the advancing technology in the field of IT and IN. They will have to be educated at the secondary school level itself; particularly with computers as these tools are handy irrespective of the field of choice in the future.
The third factor is that of distance education. The AICTE fails to duly support distance education with fewer months of study. This is a positive move as many institutes can take advantage of the pupils ignorance into either shoving the entire portion in a short span of study or teaching only a part of it, thereby stressing the candidate. The fee structure however remains the same and checks on such atrocities help students restore their faith in the distance education system. AICTE aims to encourage only top reputed institutes onto conducting a short term course once it has reassured the quality of the module towards its students.
Another encouraging aspect after standardizing the quality of education in an educational institute is to have a campus recruitment policy from a variety of companies. This would any day be a booster for students especially local ones and this way the local crowd can be valued and encouraged. These challenges are to be addressed at the earliest so as to bring an overall rise in the quality of the education system in India.
