Emerging trends and challenges ahead

of technical education

Kuldeep Chourasia
MTECH.ED

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CHALLENGES IN TECHNICAL
EDUCATION

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 Quality of pass outs
• A huge gap between requirement of industry
and Proficiency of pass outs
• 1 million graduate engineers pass outs every
year in India.
• NASSCOM reports says that only 10% of them
are skilled for job
• There is still a great requirement of competent
engineers

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 Quality of pass outs
• Quantitative expansion in Technical Education
without simultaneous Quality assurance

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 Rapid change in technology
• There is continuous and rapid change in
technology in most branches of engineering
• The present system of education adopt
changes very slowly
• Curriculum evaluation and curriculum reforms
are done occasionally.
• Often students are taught outdated
curriculum and irrelevant content

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 Lack of competent faculties
• Technical Students prefer to make their career
in development fields.
• Teaching is not given respect as job and is
considered as second option.
• Government has halted recruitment process in
public institutes.
• Teachers are appointed on contract basis.

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 Lack of competent faculties
• Teachers are little interested in updating
themselves.
• Institutes pay little attention on training of
their teachers
• Lack of availability of PhDs in Engineering for
faculty positions

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 Privatization
• Technical institutes are started by private
societies/people who have no experience and
no relation to education.
• Most private societies/people operate
institutes as business ventures.
• Such institutes lack vision ,mission ,
willingness ,ability to work for technical
education

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 Imperfect policies
• The policies designed and implemented by
GOI and AICTE are not designed perfectly and
have flaws.
• This gives rise to bureaucracy , corruption ,
malpractices and mismanagement.
• Monitoring of institutes and Implementation
of programmes has pitfalls.

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 Economic Fluctuations
• The economic fluctuations creates imbalance
between various discipline

• The recent boom in IT industry caused a

increase in admission capacity in this area ,
and other disciplines such as Civil were
closed.Later , recession in 2009 caused decline
in IT field and Unemployment grew

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 Growing Demands
• India is 2nd largest populated country(1.3
billion) with a growth rate of 8%.
• There is a high need of skilled human
resources in engineering , production fields
• A large number of youth look forward to make
their career in technical field
• There is a great need for capacity expansion
of technical education

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 Geographical Challenges
• Geographically distributed learners.
• Geographical barriers makes it difficult to
reach learners .
• non-uniformity in the distribution of Technical
Institutions in the country, causing regional
imbalances, and inter-state migration of
students

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 Geographical Challenges
• The Institutions in the rural and industrially-
backward areas are not as popular , leading to
unfilled capacity in these institutions.

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 Social Challenges
• Culture , society prevent learners to go for
higher education
• Less females go for engineering education as
compared to boys.

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 Finance
• Talented students seek financial assistance
• Scholarship system based on caste system
instead of ability and requirement.
• High Bank Interest for Education loans

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 Infrastructure
• Private institutes have no financial assistance
from government
• There is deficiency of resources particularly
laboratory equipments instruments , IT
infrastructure and learning material

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 Curriculum Gaps
• Less attention is given for development of soft
skills such as communication , interpersonal ,
creativity.
• Evaluation system follows traditional summative
approach which encourages cramming and
focus is on certification rather than
improvement in learning.
• Less attention is given on extra-curricular and
co-curricular activity
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 Research
• The research trend/culture in technical
education is deficient.
• Plagiarism is often noticed.
• Students are not trained to take research
• There is lack of proper guidance and support
• financial assistance is lacking

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EMERGING TRENDS

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 Capacity expansion
• Scheme of the setting up of 20 new IIITs on
PPP model
• Involving private sector for Growth and
development of technical education .
• Involving foreign universities , countries to set
up campus in india.

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 Capacity Expansion
• Offering distance education programmes
through IGNOU and other Open Universities
(SOU).
• Flexibility in education in term of time ,place
content through MPECS , correspondence
courses , part time courses ,online courses.

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 Curriculum innovation
• Integration of IT in all curriculum
• Development of entrepreneurial skills through
entrepreneurship development programmes
• Competency based curriculum ,learning and
evaluation
• Starting Integrated Courses such as
Mechatronics , MBA-TECH ,MTECH.ED.

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 Curriculum Innovation
• Focus on continuous assessment.
• Eco –friendly practices/methods
-Green curriculum
-education for sustainable development

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 Quality improvement
• Use of ICT in Education is encouraged and
assisted by GOI.
• Quality assurance through accreditation and
certification by NBA , NACC , ABET , ISO
• Assistance by World Bank through TEQUIP
project(1 & 2)
• India is a provisional member of Washington
Accord which helps in mobility and in creating a
global student.
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 Quality Improvement
• Certification from industry(employers)
• Industry-institute-Interaction

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 Quality improvement
• Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP)

The Ministry of Human Resource Development launched in December, 2002

the “Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme of Government
of India (TEQIP)” which aims to upscale and support ongoing efforts in
improving quality of technical education and enhancing existing
capacities of the institutions to become dynamic, demand-driven,
quality conscious, efficient and forward looking, responsive to rapid
economic and technological developments occurring both at national
and international levels. The Programme was conceived and designed as a
long term project to be implemented in 10-12 years in 3 phases to support
excellence and transformation in Technical Education in the country.

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Thank you

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