VISAKHAPATNAM: Current education system in the engineering colleges is not allowing students to acquire employability skills, which had led to 80 per cent of engineering graduates coming out of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Kakinada) not getting placed anywhere.
The aptitude of students and quality of education/infrastructure was not up to the mark, said JNTU-K Vice-Cancellor Allam Appa Rao at a regional conference of affiliated colleges here on Sunday. The backlog of papers for students had risen to above 60 per cent and they were being allowed to complete it within 8 years (10 years for SC/ST).
Discussing various measures to be initiated by the university in the colleges to improve the quality of education and employability of those passing out, he lamented at the drastic drop in the number of research projects and students opting to pursue post-graduate studies.
