ENGINEERING EDUCATION ON OXYGEN, IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED
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Most dangerous and deadly are the “Literate & Uneducated” Teachers particularly in the institutes of higher learning today. The proof is the un-employability & utter frustration on the faces of our youth whose future is at stake. Custodians are kept in the dark in a very scrupulous manner by the Pseudo-Intellectuals. They aren’t able to read between the lines. They are not able to recognize this hard fact.
The GOI gave full academic autonomy to these institutes thinking & taking it granted that these institutes will be managed by the “Literate & Educated” faculty but unfortunately this freedom has been grossly misused leading to having majority faculty falling in the category of Pseudo-Intellectual Faculty only. Following are the main acts of academic impropriety:
- Curriculum has been manipulated to minimize the teaching load to the extent of teaching at times only one to two courses per year.
- Multiple courses have been carved out from one single course to fool the students and the system.
- These similar courses are shown / claimed / adjusted as handling too much of teaching load per semester by the unscrupulous faculty.
- Many courses can be easily scanned to find at times 30~40 % overlap.
- Pseudo-Intellectual Faculty is successful in introducing list of irrelevant courses by dropping many desired core courses from the curriculum because they just can’t handle the hard core technical courses.
- Workshop practice and laboratory content has been put on the back burner. Step taken to kill the engineering education and skill.
- Hands on experience in Engineering Drawing has been eliminated despite knowing the fact that it is a language of an engineer.
Of course the first major dilution of engineering education in the country was made in 1977 when GOI introduced 10+2+3 system of education in the country. Our visionary custodians of engineering education simply took off one year from then existing five year engineering degree programme. Our selfish Pseudo-Intellectual Faculty responsible for handling engineering courses very comfortably took off at least ten hard core engineering courses rather than taking off some of the courses from the pure sciences stream which got shifted to one extra year that was introduced at the secondary school level. This decision taken in a hurry or unscrupulously was the first nail in the coffin of engineering education.
Our industry is on oxygen in real sense. Technically qualified engineers are not coming out of such institutes who can assume responsibility of sustaining & nurturing the knowledge & skill starved industries. Please remember that the degree holding engineers are of no use to the industries other than becoming the liability. It is due to the failure of Pseudo-Intellectual Faculty in Technical Institutes in grooming Educated Engineers that the GOI has to consider “Make in India” programme for taking care of unemployed & frustrated degree holding engineers.
Why is that IIT graduates don't opt for Industry jobs? Is GOI pumping in thousands of crores of precious taxpayer’s money to sustain IITs for feeding and nurturing multinational companies? This act of Pseudo-Intellectual Faculty is sinful and almost falls in the category of sedition.
Honest accountability of such pseudo intellectual teachers must be fixed. This can be done only by a team of honest & committed intellectuals. Believe me it is a very difficult task until there is a will power to put our engineering education on the track.
