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‘Focus will be on research oriented courses’

SALEM: The Directorate of Technical Education has been initiating various programmes to make technical education in the State a quality-based one in the competent environment, said Principal Secretary and Commissioner of Technical Education V.K. Jeyakodi.

Addressing the valedictory function of AICTE-sponsored staff development programme, organised by Thiagarajar Polytechnic College here on Friday, Mr. Jeyakodi said that the Directorate had already taken up a project under the Phase I scheme in which a programme on technical education quality improvement was implemented in 8 Government Engineering Colleges and 3 Polytechnic colleges. “Under the Phase II, we will be concentrating more on research oriented programmes and postgraduate courses,” he added.

These schemes not only improve the standard of faculty but also the capacity building of students in those institutions.

At present, the Directorate was having 400 engineering and 400 polytechnic colleges. Southern States and Maharashtra, he said, accounted for two third of technical education institutions in the country.

“Ensuring quality technical education is a nation-wide problem. Excellent infrastructure and qualified faculty will solve 90 per cent of the ills that plague the quality education,” he said and added that high quality engineering programmes were the essential requirements.

Mr. Jeyakodi said that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) had emerged as the major stream in all sectors of technology with thrust on multiple disciplinary skills.

While 75 per cent of engineering students did not get decent employments, nearly 90 per cent of arts and science streams remained underemployed with lack of skills being the primary drawbacks.

College Chairman C. Valliappa presided.

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