Students of professional courses like management, information technology and engineering will now have to pay more attention to practical learning.
Higher and Technical Education Minister Rajesh Tope has announced that practicals in these courses will get 60 per cent weightage, while theory will get 40 per cent.
Rajesh Tope
Tope, who visited the board of Kangan Institute in Australia last week, found this system ideal to yield better results. He has signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Co-operation with the institute, which is owned by the Victorian state government.
Mumbai Mirror had published a report some time ago saying Mumbai University students are not good enough by industry standards.
Many corporates had told Dr Vijay Khole, then Vice-Chancellor, that MBA, engineering and commerce students were not being trained enough.
In an interaction between head honchos of India’s biggest companies and university officials, the former complained that varsity students lacked practical knowledge to take up corporate jobs, and companies are forced to invest considerable amount of time and money in training them.
“When I visited Australia to collaborate with the institute, I was surprised that they are so advanced in their education system. They had 75 per cent weightage for practicals and 25 per cent for theory in their courses.
They focus on hands on training and give importance to skills. Now we have decided to follow the same in our syllabus. I am asking colleges to increase industrial visits and arrange more workshops,” said Tope.
He added, “I also found that in Australia there are many jobs for skilled labour, but they don’t find people.
Hence they have tied up with our ITI. Every three months experts will come and select students from ITI. For this we identified ITIs in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Aurangabad.”
J D Bhutange, director Institute for Vocational Education and Training who accompanied the minister said, “Schools and colleges give more importance to practicals than theory. Now we are also preparing a report on how we can incorporate the same in ITIs.”
A senior official from the department said, “The institute will begin conducting refresher courses for teachers across the management, IT and engineering faculties that form the bulk of entry-level workforce.”
Higher and Technical Education Minister Rajesh Tope has announced that practicals in these courses will get 60 per cent weightage, while theory will get 40 per cent.
Rajesh Tope
Tope, who visited the board of Kangan Institute in Australia last week, found this system ideal to yield better results. He has signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Co-operation with the institute, which is owned by the Victorian state government.
Mumbai Mirror had published a report some time ago saying Mumbai University students are not good enough by industry standards.
Many corporates had told Dr Vijay Khole, then Vice-Chancellor, that MBA, engineering and commerce students were not being trained enough.
In an interaction between head honchos of India’s biggest companies and university officials, the former complained that varsity students lacked practical knowledge to take up corporate jobs, and companies are forced to invest considerable amount of time and money in training them.
“When I visited Australia to collaborate with the institute, I was surprised that they are so advanced in their education system. They had 75 per cent weightage for practicals and 25 per cent for theory in their courses.
They focus on hands on training and give importance to skills. Now we have decided to follow the same in our syllabus. I am asking colleges to increase industrial visits and arrange more workshops,” said Tope.
He added, “I also found that in Australia there are many jobs for skilled labour, but they don’t find people.
Hence they have tied up with our ITI. Every three months experts will come and select students from ITI. For this we identified ITIs in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Aurangabad.”
J D Bhutange, director Institute for Vocational Education and Training who accompanied the minister said, “Schools and colleges give more importance to practicals than theory. Now we are also preparing a report on how we can incorporate the same in ITIs.”
A senior official from the department said, “The institute will begin conducting refresher courses for teachers across the management, IT and engineering faculties that form the bulk of entry-level workforce.”
0 comments:
Post a Comment