President asks NITs to link up with industry associations
Updated: Jul 21, 2014 11:49:31am
New Delhi, Jul 21 (KNN) President Pranab Mukherjee has asked the prestigious National Institute of Technology (NITs) to establish linkages with the local industry and industry associations.
"Academic curricula must have an industry-focus. Industry interface cell must be set up to establish linkages with the local industry and industry associations," the President said while speaking at the inauguration of the Golden Jubilee of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli, yesterday.
In addition, the President said that to address faculty shortage, vacant faculty positions must be filled up on priority and external talent injected by hiring experts from industry, laboratories and foreign universities on short-term basis.
Significantly, although IITs and NITs are front-ranking institutions for engineering education in India, according to prominent international surveys on universities, Indian institutions do not figure in the top two hundred places, the President pointed out.
Reiterating the need to take the rating process seriously, he said it was encouraging to see international rating agencies starting to recognize the quality of Indian institutes.
“Some of our IITs are in the top 50 in civil and electrical engineering. Five institutions are amongst the top 20 universities amongst BRICS nations. The number of Indian institutions in the top 100 in Asia has increased to 10 this year from 3 in 2013,” he said, expressing confidence that the institutes would replicate these initial successes in the overall rankings.
He asked the NIT in Tiruchirappalli to take a cue from successful Indian institutions on how to approach the rating system.
“Featuring in international rankings has several positive spin-offs, in terms of intangibles like boosting the spirits of students and faculty, to more tangible benefits like better placement for students. More importantly, active participation in rankings will propel the development of institutions in the right direction,” he said. (KNN/ES)
"Academic curricula must have an industry-focus. Industry interface cell must be set up to establish linkages with the local industry and industry associations," the President said while speaking at the inauguration of the Golden Jubilee of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli, yesterday.
In addition, the President said that to address faculty shortage, vacant faculty positions must be filled up on priority and external talent injected by hiring experts from industry, laboratories and foreign universities on short-term basis.
Significantly, although IITs and NITs are front-ranking institutions for engineering education in India, according to prominent international surveys on universities, Indian institutions do not figure in the top two hundred places, the President pointed out.
Reiterating the need to take the rating process seriously, he said it was encouraging to see international rating agencies starting to recognize the quality of Indian institutes.
“Some of our IITs are in the top 50 in civil and electrical engineering. Five institutions are amongst the top 20 universities amongst BRICS nations. The number of Indian institutions in the top 100 in Asia has increased to 10 this year from 3 in 2013,” he said, expressing confidence that the institutes would replicate these initial successes in the overall rankings.
He asked the NIT in Tiruchirappalli to take a cue from successful Indian institutions on how to approach the rating system.
“Featuring in international rankings has several positive spin-offs, in terms of intangibles like boosting the spirits of students and faculty, to more tangible benefits like better placement for students. More importantly, active participation in rankings will propel the development of institutions in the right direction,” he said. (KNN/ES)
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