‘Learning-Teaching process should be given more importance’ believes AICTE (All India Council of Technical Education) Chairman, Professor Anil D Sahasrabudhe. During a two-day National Conference on ‘Crisis in Technical Education’, AICTE chairman on Friday said, “Good Infrastructure and enrolment of students alone will not be able to ensure quality technical education if the teaching-learning process is not given focused attention.”
The two-day conference has been organized at the 49th Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) National Annual Faculty Convention.
During the conference, he said, “In the educational Institutions, the learning process should change as the teacher doesn’t know what and how to teach the students. We need to understand the problem that we are stalking the system.”
He said we need to update the learning process as ‘it is killing education’ because teachers do not appreciate the student’s creativity and inquisitiveness.
He introduced NEP (National Education Policy) which will have ‘all the requisites to address and overcome the issues affecting the technical education system in the country’.
Former Chairman of AICTE, Professor Damodar Acharya said, Our Technical Education of our country is in ‘Deep Trouble’. He said, “There’s an exponential growth in the capacity but an acute shortage in the competent faculty, which is the failure of the system in producing quality, competent, skilled and enjoyable graduates had consumed the attractiveness of engineering, management, architecture education, and pharmacy.”
Professor Suhasrabudhe further said, “The decline in the standard of education is mostly contributed by those educational institutions which take pride in having the facilities to educate students from ‘KG to PG’.”
He said the country’s Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER), which stood at 0.7% before independence had reached 26% today of which one-fourth of the students belonged to technical streams. The focus was on quantity but quality had been neglected.
He said NEP will address the crisis of Technical Education. The curriculum will have 70% questions from creativity and innovation and 30% questions from textbooks.