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  • JNTU-K working to improve quality, employability of students: V-C

    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. “Only those not accepted by the industry were coming to the teaching profession severely impacting the quality of pedagogy, for improving this situation we propose to hold summer training programmes for faculty members on a cost-sharing basis,” the Vice-Chancellor said.

    Lashing out at the Government for not allocating sufficient funds to the universities for taking up any quality improvement initiatives, he pointed out that while the University Grants Commission had allocated Rs.170 crore, it had released only Rs.12 crore. He said that on the contrary Central Universities or top-level institutions had abundant funds, but spent barely 50 per cent of it. He termed the dream of Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal to improve the current Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of 12.4 per cent, to around 30 per cent by 2020 as difficult task as there was very little infrastructure available.

  • AP tech colleges, council differ over cut-off marks.

    The AICTE head made it clear that all the engineering colleges should reserve up to five per cent seats for economically backward students.

    The chairman of the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Prof. S.S. Mantha, was cornered by the managements of private engineering colleges over the new norms at an interactive session held at JNTUKukatpally on Saturday.

    While Prof. Mantha said the 50 per cent cut off marks in 10+2 is compulsory for engineering admissions from this year irrespective of the Eamcet rank, the college managements said this rule will push hundreds of colleges into crisis. They pointed out that already 95,000 seats remained vacant out of 2.8 lakh seats available in the state, and the new cut-off norm will further aggravate the problem. He also made it clear that all the engineering colleges should reserve up to five per cent of their seats for students from economically backward classes from this year. The managements also opposed this norm.
    Moreover, they found fault with the AICTE for insisting on the managements to implement the revised pay scales for faculty and for effecting steep increase in processing fee for various administrative works without addressing the “low tuition fee structure” implemented in AP.

    “The fee for engineering courses in AP is `31,000 per annum, which is the lowest in the country. With this meagre amount, you want us to maintain world-class standards. You want us to implement revised pay scales for faculty. When you are so particular about quality, you should also ensure that we are paid fees accordingly,” said Mr Madhusudhan Rao, a representative of engineering college.

    Source : DC

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