Using change Agents for offering high quality education at Affiliating-type Universities ‘Scientific prowess is a sine qua non for global power. While emerging powers have to be …… net consumers of knowledge; global powers, on the other hand, have to be at the leading edge of science and technology and inevitably become net producers of knowledge.’ - - Devesh Kapur , D irector of the Centre for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania in “ Can India's higher education be saved from the rule of babus ?” 1.0 Higher Education in India and the world: India has established the world’s largest system of higher education under the Self-Financed Institution (SFI) model. But the quality of education offered in a large majority of these institutions is at best at mediocre levels. The number of students in higher education in China and India may be of the same order during 2016-17. However the enrolment in schools in India is much larg...
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improving the quality of education in India’s Technological Colleges To improve the quality of higher education in two decades, China has used a determined push by an efficient central government. Can India use the relative freedom to act in its large and distributed system of affiliated colleges to obtain the same result in one decade? 1.0 Higher Education in the Technological Field: Our country has today the world’s largest non-governmental higher technological education system. A ccording to the data available in July 2016, S elf-Financed Institutions/ Colleges (SFIs) enroll 89.3% of undergraduate students and about 72.2% of postgraduate students in India , while about 90% of such students in China study in government universities. While the SFI system has disadvantages of having been commercialized in a large measure, the system has the advantage of being nimble and flexible. So it may be amenable to change through a steady, firm and well-mea...
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Today’s Need Preparation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution by India’s Technological Colleges 1.0 The Fourth Industrial Revolution and our needs: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, through convergence of the physical and the digital world, will revolutionize, yet again, the ways in which we live, work and spend our leisure time. The premonitions of the Revolution are already apparent in the developed economies through automation , through increased use of robots in manufacturing etc. It has created fears of loss of regular jobs and stagnant wages in the West and of a slow-down in the growth rates in East Asia. Within the next five years, housing and offices, new machineries and factories, hospitals and hotels, communication and transport systems will all start using innovative products, each of which would use a range of different technologies such as IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), nanotechnology, genetic engineering, biotechnology an...
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Seats in Technological Colleges go abegging vs the Expected Worldwide Shortage of Competent Engineers A recent report: A majority of seats in technological programs in Self-Financed Institutions /Colleges (SFIs) remain empty and the Colleges have started closing down. This Article: Analysis of the phenomenon from the point-of-view of the society, since each of the SFIs institutions is a public trust and since a great deal of funds, generated from the society, may have been invested in these institutions, in addition to the initial donations by the founders. 1.0 Moving from a feverish opening of new colleges to closures: Today seats in technological fields for students, who have passed 12 th standard, are going abegging all over the country. Many Self Financed Instit...