Survey on industry linkages with engineering institutes projects a discouraging picture

Updated on: Saturday, November 03, 2012

The maiden mapping of industry linkages with engineering institutes has spelt bad news with barely 19% of the total 156 engineering institutes surveyed emerging on top of their game. About 63% institutes had moderate linkages, while 18% were rated poor in parameters ranging from inclusion of industry representatives in the management of the institute, curriculum, faculty, infrastructure, placements and social development.

The survey has been conducted by CII and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Institutes scored an average score of 30.9. AICTE chairman S S Mantha said that the regulatory body would consider making changes in its accreditation requirements following the survey's analysis. "So far institutes have concentrated only on getting industry participation in job placements or final year projects. We hope this will encourage industry collaboration in other aspects like curriculum and governance,'' he said.

"This is the first ever attempt to encourage a local eco-system by which industry representatives and educational institutes work together to improve the quality of education," added P Rajendran, CII national higher education committee chairman.

A disappointing factor was the low participation of institutes. Only 156 of the total 1,070 or 14.6% of the institutes that had completed 10 years of functioning participated.

The survey was based on a voluntary participation open to all engineering institutes that had completed 10 years as on 31 August, and offered at least three out of shortlisted six streams of engineering.

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