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Mahesh

29/09/22 06:01 AM IST

The lack of quality engineering education

In News 
  • The Union Ministry of Education released the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings.
  • An analysis of the top 200 institutes of technology and engineering colleges is a worrying picture.
Concerns 
  • The ‘hard work pays’ and ‘institutions matter’, these stories attract prospective students and justify increasing fees.
  • Lack of clarification from Engineering colleges: The reported packages are the rupee equivalent of U.S. salaries in dollars with no regard for the cost of living or for purchasing power parity.
  • Take-home salaries: The take-home salaries are only a fraction of what is mentioned in the headlines.
  • Sign-on bonus for the job: It is rarely paid upfront, instead, it is usually disbursed over about 24 months.
  • Rare offers: Placement headlines rarely reveal that such offers are rare, limited to only a minuscule number of graduates
  • International placements: The placements are generally confined to international placements, mostly in the Information Technology sector.
  • Children are often forced to take time off from their studies to focus on admissions
  • Parents and peer pressure: Children are forced to realize the dream that their parents and peers have seen for them and become doctors and engineers.
NIRF rankings 
  • The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was approved by the Ministry of Education (Erstwhile Ministry of Human Resource Development) in September 2015.
  • It is the first-ever effort by the government to rank Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the country.
  • Participation in NIRF was made compulsory for all government-run educational institutions in 2018.
Source- The Hindu 

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