The University Grants Commission is pushing for increasing undergraduate courses by a year with a strong research component to ensure students are better prepared for post graduation.
While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Suppose I pay the increased fee and after that I get into a PSU.What will I do ?Will I not join the PSU? Definitely I will.Even after increasing fees 10 folds,students will drop out if they get PSUs.Reason is PSUs pay a lot.₹200000 fees in nothing as compared to the salaries in PSUs.So,the problem of student dropout will still remain the same.
One thing this move will achieve is it will make sure middle class or lower middle students will not come to do masters because of the fees.They should have first changed the course structure,made it look industry friendly,then ask for this high fees.Will anyone pay ₹2lacs to do Masters at IIT Mandi in CS field.The answer is no.
This gives undue advantage to rich students.Our undergraduates engineering colleges are in bad shape.Masters in IITs allowed students to choose between research and industry.At Undergraduate level very few think about doing PhD.This decision will indirectly effect the quality of PhD in the country.
Certain IIT’s have M.Tech programmes in non-conventional, interdisciplinary streams. For e.g.Technology and Development (T&D) in IIT-B. In this case, those who graduate from this programme are expected to work in the development sector if not (immediately) interested in pursuing research.
Part of the students enrolling in this programme would like to work in this sector while rest may want to explore other opportunities at IIT-B.
Since our government-bureaucratic system is yet to acknowledge the utility of having young T&D graduates in their machinery, most job offers currently are from nongovernmental organizations whose remunerations (though improved over the years) is not par with mainstream institutions. Historically, the attrition rate from T&D is between 0-2/ year. Implying that most students join the programme for being part of the larger developmental cause. The intended changes in the M.Tech fee and stipend structure may have an adverse effect on T&D and similar offbeat programmes in IIT’s elsewhere. After all, they too have to support their families and have aspirations.
Well said…I was also thinking to join ctara in 2020…but now i can’t…because i can’t take more money from parents and already having a education loan of 4lacs for btech.
The MTech courses are there to keep the faculty busy. This is the reality. Now with the fee increase there will be a drop in the students enrolling and the teachers will have less amount of teaching work.
Suppose I pay the increased fee and after that I get into a PSU.What will I do ?Will I not join the PSU? Definitely I will.Even after increasing fees 10 folds,students will drop out if they get PSUs.Reason is PSUs pay a lot.₹200000 fees in nothing as compared to the salaries in PSUs.So,the problem of student dropout will still remain the same.
One thing this move will achieve is it will make sure middle class or lower middle students will not come to do masters because of the fees.They should have first changed the course structure,made it look industry friendly,then ask for this high fees.Will anyone pay ₹2lacs to do Masters at IIT Mandi in CS field.The answer is no.
This gives undue advantage to rich students.Our undergraduates engineering colleges are in bad shape.Masters in IITs allowed students to choose between research and industry.At Undergraduate level very few think about doing PhD.This decision will indirectly effect the quality of PhD in the country.
Certain IIT’s have M.Tech programmes in non-conventional, interdisciplinary streams. For e.g.Technology and Development (T&D) in IIT-B. In this case, those who graduate from this programme are expected to work in the development sector if not (immediately) interested in pursuing research.
Part of the students enrolling in this programme would like to work in this sector while rest may want to explore other opportunities at IIT-B.
Since our government-bureaucratic system is yet to acknowledge the utility of having young T&D graduates in their machinery, most job offers currently are from nongovernmental organizations whose remunerations (though improved over the years) is not par with mainstream institutions. Historically, the attrition rate from T&D is between 0-2/ year. Implying that most students join the programme for being part of the larger developmental cause. The intended changes in the M.Tech fee and stipend structure may have an adverse effect on T&D and similar offbeat programmes in IIT’s elsewhere. After all, they too have to support their families and have aspirations.
Well said…I was also thinking to join ctara in 2020…but now i can’t…because i can’t take more money from parents and already having a education loan of 4lacs for btech.
The MTech courses are there to keep the faculty busy. This is the reality. Now with the fee increase there will be a drop in the students enrolling and the teachers will have less amount of teaching work.
Courses are not producing quality candidates