Chennai:
In the changing world of technology, expert feel that the next
generation teachers should have industry experience so that they are
aware of the skill sets the industry wants to employ the youngsters.
Speaking during a ThinkEdu Conclave’s session on ‘Should Employment be
the key focus of education’, the experts highlighted the difference
between premier institutions like IITs and IIMs and said that the
basic issue for poor employability is that conventional colleges don’t
go in for problem solving approach and teachers in the affiliated
college system don’t have accountability.
Uday Desai, director of IIT Hyderabad highlighted how IITs are
planning to evolve new modules of education to help the students keep
pace with the industry requirements. “The education system is focusing
only on employability at the present tense. This will become redundant
as technology is changing at a rapid pace,” he said.
He also highlighted how the IT industry is going through a crisis in
middle management with the change in technology.
Desai said that IITs are planning to atomized the whole programme in
multiples of modules. Some modules would be geared up for education
while theer will also be a separate seven hour module. “This won’t be
taught by the faculty. A person from industry will be teaching them,”
he said.
Citing example of how Estonia, a tiny nation, has developed the spirit
of entreprenuership among its students, he said the country should
take a lesson from that country.
Phatak also slammed the conventional college teachers stating that
many are not able to set question papers. “Only four countries are
following the colonial system of education. They include India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh and sri Lanka,” he said.
Deepak Phatak, professor of department of CSE, IIT Bombay, stressed on
the need for sustainable employment and said that the education should
focus on inculcating entrepreneurial thought.
He also said that skill training is totally different from
conventional education. The education system focus on how to make
students constantly learn as well as on job rather than teach them how
to learn.
He said the emphasise of organizations like IITs is on how to learn
and the ethos of the system of premier institutions can be brought
into conventional system.
He also said that employability and unemployability depends on number
of opportunities available. “Even in 60s we had few engineering
colleges but there was unemployability. Now we have 1.25 students who
join engineering colleges of which 25 per cent are employable. That
means 250,000 engineers are able to get jobs,” he said.
He also highlighted the need for technology devices to be provided at
affordable rate to the students so that it could be a gamechanger in
education system while highlighting Aakash project where one lakh tabs
were provided to engineering students.
He also highlighted how IIT Bombay is working on Open Source
Courseware Animations Repository. This provides a repository of
web-based interactive animations and simulations, that we refer to as
learning objects (LOs). These learning objects span topics in science
and engineering at the college level, and maths and science at the
school level. Students and teachers can view, run and download these
learning objects.
Krishnakumar Natrajan, managing director and chief executive officer
of MindTree stressed on the need for building engineers of tomorrow
who can solve and tackle problems. He also said that the education
institutions not focus on how many placements its students. The focus
should be rather on providing quality engineers.
Natrajan also said that there is need for faculty to work with
enterprises and find what they need. The learning method needs to be
different and should have relevant technology with proper pedagogy
method.
He also stressed on the need for creating Nexgen pedagogy for future engineers.
Dr S Vaidyasubramaniam, dean planning and development, Sastra
University, who chaired the session, highlighted the lack of
recognition given to successful entrepreneurs. He also stressed the
need to encourage entrepreneurs.
Lalitha Balakrishnan, principal of MOP Vaishnav College in Chennai,
stressed the need to introduce value compenent subtly in the course
component. She said the focus of the education system is to stimulate
the intellect besides fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship.
“We require a right eco-sytem as young people will emerge as
innovators,” she said.
In the changing world of technology, expert feel that the next
generation teachers should have industry experience so that they are
aware of the skill sets the industry wants to employ the youngsters.
Speaking during a ThinkEdu Conclave’s session on ‘Should Employment be
the key focus of education’, the experts highlighted the difference
between premier institutions like IITs and IIMs and said that the
basic issue for poor employability is that conventional colleges don’t
go in for problem solving approach and teachers in the affiliated
college system don’t have accountability.
Uday Desai, director of IIT Hyderabad highlighted how IITs are
planning to evolve new modules of education to help the students keep
pace with the industry requirements. “The education system is focusing
only on employability at the present tense. This will become redundant
as technology is changing at a rapid pace,” he said.
He also highlighted how the IT industry is going through a crisis in
middle management with the change in technology.
Desai said that IITs are planning to atomized the whole programme in
multiples of modules. Some modules would be geared up for education
while theer will also be a separate seven hour module. “This won’t be
taught by the faculty. A person from industry will be teaching them,”
he said.
Citing example of how Estonia, a tiny nation, has developed the spirit
of entreprenuership among its students, he said the country should
take a lesson from that country.
Phatak also slammed the conventional college teachers stating that
many are not able to set question papers. “Only four countries are
following the colonial system of education. They include India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh and sri Lanka,” he said.
Deepak Phatak, professor of department of CSE, IIT Bombay, stressed on
the need for sustainable employment and said that the education should
focus on inculcating entrepreneurial thought.
He also said that skill training is totally different from
conventional education. The education system focus on how to make
students constantly learn as well as on job rather than teach them how
to learn.
He said the emphasise of organizations like IITs is on how to learn
and the ethos of the system of premier institutions can be brought
into conventional system.
He also said that employability and unemployability depends on number
of opportunities available. “Even in 60s we had few engineering
colleges but there was unemployability. Now we have 1.25 students who
join engineering colleges of which 25 per cent are employable. That
means 250,000 engineers are able to get jobs,” he said.
He also highlighted the need for technology devices to be provided at
affordable rate to the students so that it could be a gamechanger in
education system while highlighting Aakash project where one lakh tabs
were provided to engineering students.
He also highlighted how IIT Bombay is working on Open Source
Courseware Animations Repository. This provides a repository of
web-based interactive animations and simulations, that we refer to as
learning objects (LOs). These learning objects span topics in science
and engineering at the college level, and maths and science at the
school level. Students and teachers can view, run and download these
learning objects.
Krishnakumar Natrajan, managing director and chief executive officer
of MindTree stressed on the need for building engineers of tomorrow
who can solve and tackle problems. He also said that the education
institutions not focus on how many placements its students. The focus
should be rather on providing quality engineers.
Natrajan also said that there is need for faculty to work with
enterprises and find what they need. The learning method needs to be
different and should have relevant technology with proper pedagogy
method.
He also stressed on the need for creating Nexgen pedagogy for future engineers.
Dr S Vaidyasubramaniam, dean planning and development, Sastra
University, who chaired the session, highlighted the lack of
recognition given to successful entrepreneurs. He also stressed the
need to encourage entrepreneurs.
Lalitha Balakrishnan, principal of MOP Vaishnav College in Chennai,
stressed the need to introduce value compenent subtly in the course
component. She said the focus of the education system is to stimulate
the intellect besides fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship.
“We require a right eco-sytem as young people will emerge as
innovators,” she said.
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