THE DECLINE OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE INSTITUTIONS;

Today whilst I was reading The Times of India Ahmadabad I was not surprised to reach to the news that around 55% seats are vacant in Engineering colleges . I also viewed a program on one of the Marathi channel headed by Mr. Uday Nirgudkar, for the worry of tremendous displeasure of students to take admissions in :Science or Engineering colleges. This is not only a question in states of Gujrat or Maharashtra, but this state is practically in almost all the states of India.

The twenty first century presents a radically different economy and society, which is likely to have profound implications on Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET).

Emerging paradigms in teacher education with focus on TVET surround three issues which this paper will focus on: 1) Globalisation and Sustainability, 2) Emergence of Knowledge Society and ICT Revolution, and 3) Technology Obsolesces and Generic Skills. 

While these issues are not conclusive, they provide timely, if not new, eye-openers on what could be considered as necessary foundations for shaping teacher education and refining the role of teachers and learners in the new, independent and engaging environment that has been created for them.The familiar scenarios that have been existing for a few years now are looked into more closely towards, sustainable development and financial crisis, as cornerstones of the new teacher education models arising in the knowledge-based society.

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It is important for us to be more analytical here for the causes for this sudden decline. The following reasons are perhaps responsible for this:

a)  Our Technical institutions have miserably failed in understanding the needs of today:s industrial attributes. Thus the technical human resource (Candidates) generated by these educational institutions for the industries do not match the trends of the industry.

b) The educational practices adopted -I mean teaching trends are typical traditional, and not much practical oriented. Therefore, the candidates coming out of the nutshells are purely unknown to the industrial world. 

c) There is no facility or rather a scope for one:s creativity or innovation.

d) There is lack of encouragement from the teachers of institutions to such candidates who exhibit creativity or innovation.

e) The teachers work in a typical traditional framework, and are not updated with industrial skills, therefore, there is a kind of  communication gap between the students and candidates.. 

f)  The Techno- educational institutions work like the huge profit making organisations. . The education imparted is not job oriented, but is profit oriented to the institutions. This has created a virtual inflammation of technical literacy.

g) The Institutions need to take care of periodically updating their faculties and staff, with the trends in industries, and then passing it on to their students.

The above said analysis concludes that such a technical or science based education and the system is outdated and needs a strict revival at the earliest. If these are not overcome soon then it will certainly lead to disaster towards technological, economical and social development of our country..

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