POLICIES ON PAPER ARE TANGENTIAL TO THE POLICIES IN PRACTICE: PLIGHT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

POLICIES ON PAPER ARE TANGENTIAL TO THE POLICIES IN PRACTICE: PLIGHT OF HIGHER EDUCATION 

Our custodians are expert planners in making the excellent policies and roadmaps for a crop of quality higher education but there is hardly an effort to identify the good quality seed, farmer and necessary infrastructure for irrigation and organic manure to result in a higher yielding quality crop. Until this is addressed, there can’t be any meaningful output.

There are many Government / Private institutions in the country which are doing gross injustice to their students and consequently to the Nation. Insufficient classrooms, insufficient Laboratories, serious shortage of teaching professionals (Gurus)*, No Technical staff, no Workshop practicals, no engineering drawing halls.

It is very unfortunate that taxpayers' precious hard-earned money is simply going to waste. Is there any way, the custodians can make public the Utilization Factor for the tax-payer’s money spent in the name of higher education? Most unfortunate for the Nation is that the Policies on paper are opposite to the Policies followed in practice.

* Unfortunately institutions are hiring “Teaching Employees'' and not the "Teaching Professionals (GURUS)" because they fail to differentiate between these two terms.

 

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SEEKING ADMISSION TO ENGINEERING? IT’S TIME TO CHECK

"SEEKING ADMISSION TO ENGINEERING? IT’S TIME TO CHECK"

What do the parents look into while selecting a college of engineering for their daughters and sons? 

1. The reputation of the institute.
2. The reputation of the university to which the institute is affiliated.
3. Private or Government owned institution.
4. The only institute that has offered an admission.
5. Parents are desperate to admit their daughters and sons to engineering college for status.
6. The sole criteria is to get your daughters and sons as professionally qualified industry ready engineers.

Any irresponsible decision creates a problem of unemployability, frustration and at times leading to IRREPARABLE loss to the family.

All the parents are sincerely requested to concentrate only on the last point (6). Government or Private is not that important. Kindly ensure that you don’t become the destroyer of the bright careers of your children to which most parents and their ‘paper degree holding’ engineering (in fact non-engineering) daughters and sons won’t agree but start abusing the Government for everything that is going wrong.

There are many Government / Private institutions in the country which are doing gross injustice to their students and consequently to the Nation. Insufficient classrooms, insufficient Laboratories, serious shortage of teaching professionals, No Technical staff, no Workshop practicals, no engineering drawing halls.

The prospective students and the parents may check the placement records, talk to the senior students, quality & sincerity of the faculty, accreditation of the institution and internship plans before seeking admission. 

Make sure that your precious daughter / son doesn’t become a bonafide student of any such Private / Government institutions.

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