Present education process stifles innovative thoughts

Updated on: Thursday, December 08, 2011

The present education process has resulted in lack of skills among students and this was preventing them from possessing an innovative thought process necessary to become entrepreneurs, State Planning Commission member (Education) E. Balagurusamy said here on Wednesday.

The former Anna University (Chennai) Vice-Chancellor blamed the Information Technology sector for dire shortage of skilled workers in the manufacturing and other core sectors. Professors were teaching only knowledge with no set of skills being imparted.

He was addressing the valedictory function of the first batch of Faculty Development Programme in Entrepreneurship organised here between November 21 and 3 by the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED). Sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, a total of 31 teachers including two research scholars took part.

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“Eighty per cent of the country's engineers are unemployable because they do not have the skills. One cannot innovate without asking questions and without innovation, one cannot become an entrepreneur. But teachers, consciously or unconsciously, ensure that students never raise queries,” he added. Dr. Balagurusamy said, the country has deteriorated in the last ten years with the share of agriculture falling to 4 per cent from over 50 per cent. Yet the number of billionaires was increasing. Speaking earlier, M. Shanmugam, Regional Director, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Madurai Regional Centre, said that IGNOU offered entrepreneurship courses that students could take concurrently during college studies.

R. Murugesan, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University of Technology-Madurai, said that a World Bank Report on India had stated that skill shortage was impeding the nation's economic growth. E.B. Perumal Pillai, Registrar, AUT-Madurai, said that entrepreneurship development was a core aspect of human resource development.

M. Lakshmanan, Founder Chairman of CED, R. Dharmar, its Founder Trustee, and R. Jayaraman, Member Secretary, spoke.

 

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