A Critical Assessment of Draft Indian National Policy 2019 with Respect to National Institutes Technical Teachers Training and Research Thanikachalam Vedhathiri, B.E., M.Tech., Ph.D., M.S., FIE., FIGS., FFIUCIE vthani2025@gmail.com
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Objectives of Research • Conducting Policy Analysis, Investment Analysis, ROI, and the Institutional Growth under the National Educational Policy • Critically review the focus of NEP 2019 on the Contributions of National Institutes of Technical Teachers Training and Research to Indian Engineering Education and Technical Education. • Explore the Focus shown on the Polytechnic Colleges by NEP 2019 • Suggest Needed Improvements in NEP 2019 with respect to Engineering Faculty Development and Technician Education
Comparison of Polytechnic Colleges and Vocational Institutes
Polytechnic Colleges
Vocational Schools
• Industry Relevant Curriculum • Entry Level jobs: Middle Level Supervisors • Recognition: Well Recognized by the Industry • Entrepreneurship: Around 2-5% • AICTE: Curriculum Approval, Faculty Training, & Modernization
• Need to Focus on the Entry Level Jobs and Relevant Skills • Entry Level Skilled Workers • Should be focused on the Industry Requirements • Very less • Not coming under AICTE but under NCERT
Quality Improvement and Faculty and Development • Polytechnics
• Vocational Schools
• Accreditation by NBA • Development based on the industrial growth: World Bank assisted projects (1991-97 and 2001-2007) • Capacity development, Quality improvement, efficiency improvement • Administrative Control: Directorate of Technical Education
• No accreditation • No development through any major external funding
• No major initiative • Administrative control: NCERT and SCERT
Industrial Training and Career Growth Polytechnics
Vocational Institutes
• Board of Apprenticeship Training offers industry based training through various companies
• Board of Apprenticeship Training also offers training but a few candidates are availing the training • Severe competition from industrial training institutes • Now substantial growth.
• Competitors: B.E Graduates, & AMIE. • Well trained graduates grow very well in the career ladder.
Faculty Development Polytechnics
Vocational institutes
• NITTTRs • ISTE Summer and winter schools • Long-term Faculty Development:
• NCERT • Very few • Long-term Faculty Development:
NITTTRs, Engineering Colleges/ State Technical Universities offer
Only a few Arts and Science Colleges offer B. Voc. Edn., and Master of Vocational Education.
B.E./B.Tech, M.E./ M.Tech, Ph.D
Role of NITTTRs Faculty Development Programs • Short-term courses based on the needs of the faculty members. - Content updating - Andragogy - Curriculum Revision, Design - Industrial Training - Postgraduate Programs - Interdisciplinary Research (Ph. D.) in Engineering Education
Diverse Global Participants • Short-term and Medium- term Courses through Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Finance, & ICCR • Programs under International Development Agencies like ADB, GIZ, UNDP, UNESCO, USAID, • Under bilateral agreements. • MOOCs
Mode of Executive Training for Industries Main Institute
Regional Training Centers/ Executive Development Centers
• Sponsored Short-Term Courses based on the Needs of the employees • Planning In-House Program Development for the Executives and Employees • Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Programs and Ph.D. in Engineering Education • Work-life Balance
• Program Planning and Development • Policy Planning in Employee Development • Training the Trainers • Environmental Impact Assessment • Environmental Protection and Management • Safety in Work Practices
Faculty Development Research Findings
NEP 2019
• Plan lecturer induction programs • Inclusion of Engineering college faculty based on the recommendation of the Bhattacharya committee ( 1991) • Conducting in-house faculty development programs based on the invitation
• Orientation program for new faculty (P 13.1.8, p 261) • Setup Departments of Education for preparing faculty for professional education • Offer the master degree programs in education.
Internationalization of Education Research Findings
NEP 2019
• Development of NITTTR as world class institute to provide services under GATS • Contributing to diverse global faculty development through various projects of International Development Agencies like ADB, GIZ, UNDP, UNESCO, USAID and World Bank
• Internationalization of higher education (P 12.4) • Internationally relevant education (P 12.4.1) • Encourage international collaborations
Suggested Teacher Education and Development by NEP 2019
Setting up departments of Education for preparing faculty for professional education • Department of Education will have to be setup to strengthen teacher education in the professional streams and into multidisciplinary Higher Education Institutes. • To develop curriculum for teacher education and offer Master’s degree in teaching and research
NEP 2019 • P 16.4.1 • NITTTRs have established many masters and interdisciplinary degrees for engineering education. • Developed curriculum • Offered interdisciplinary Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Education.
Suggestions from Research and their reflections in NEP 2019 Research Findings
NEP 2019
• Enhancing institutional governance beyond the Society’s Act of 1860
• Chapter 17 (p310): Empowered governance and effective leadership for higher education institutes • Chapter 17.1 (p311): Institutes are to be governed by an Independent Board . • Chapter 18.6.4.: Principles of good governance
• Administration through Board of Governors
Educational Management Ecosystem Research Finding
NEP2019
• Facilitate the development of professional competence of CEOs in Higher Education Institutes
• Chapter 16: Professional Education must seek to develop individuals with the capacity to combine a strong foundation of theoretical knowledge and specific competencies; • Abilities to connect theory to practice • An understanding of how the profession impacts and is impacted by society.
Performance Management Research Finding
NEP 2019
• Performance management and turnaround mechanism of poorly performing institutes • Radical and virtual innovation center for human resource development center • A model for Learning Organization
• Chapter 17.1: Empowered governance and effective leadership • Institutional governance should be based on full autonomy: Academic, Administrative, and Finance • Chap. : 17.1.14 –Continuous professional development for heads of institutions and others in leadership roles
Advanced Educational System Research Finding
NEP 2019
• To undertake International Projects in the engineering institutes under globalized economy
• Chap. 10: New institutional architecture with large wellstructured , vibrant, multidisciplinary institutions for teaching and research
Transformation Models Research Finding
NEP 2019
• Learning Organization • Desired Ecosystem • Institutional Transformation and development in engineering education to meet Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA)
• Chap. 10.1.a (p212): HEIs will have to become multidisciplinary institutions • Chap. 9.3 (p 208): Moving towards faculty and institutional autonomy • Chap. 17.1.14 (p 317): Continuous professional development for heads of institutions and others in leadership roles.
Institutional Development Models Research Findings
NEP 2019
• A Critical Reappraisal of Leadership Models in Higher Education with a focus on Indian Scenario • Affiliated colleges need to be facilitated to become deemed universities
• Chap. 17.1: Well defined guidelines for selection of leadership • Tier III colleges will be empowered to offer degrees
Faculty Autonomy Research Findings • Institutional design to support an educational transformation in engineering colleges in India
NEP 2019 • Through faculty autonomy • Enable and motivate to innovate in -teaching and pedagogical approaches, student assessment, community services and research - Share the best practices and ideas with each other university wide and larger forums in order to continuously improve.
Faculty Autonomy Research Findings
NPE 2019
• Transformation in Indian Engineering Education through Academic Autonomy to High Performing Faculty Teams
• P 13.1: Putting faculty into the heart of higher education institutions: - Motivate and energize to achieve high quality in higher education - Ensure service conditions to excellent teaching and research enabling vibrant university communities through faculty empowerment - Incentivizing excellence through merit based career management
Institutional Culture Research Finding
NEP 2019
• Support the high performing motivated and competent faculty teams.
• P 13.1: Create a culture of excellence through outstanding institutional leadership • Higher education faculty must be valued and supported with excellent preparation and conducive environments (p 25859)
Creating High Performing Institutes Research Findings
NEP 2019
• Accelerate autonomy to high performing institutes
• Institutional autonomy for recruitment (P 13.1.4) • Institutional Culture: Empower and motivate (P 13.1.5) • Permanent employment track for university staff (P.13.1.6)
Impact of Project Polytechnics under the World Bank assisted projects (1991-1997 & 2001-2007)
Research Findings
NEP 2019
• Impact of project polytechnics on the human capital development • Increasing the state competitiveness • Social innovation in the North Eastern States
• NO RECOGNITION • NO GUIDELINES FOR THE GROWTH OF POLYTECHNIC COLLEGES
An Integrated Model for Institutional Development Research Findings
NEP 2019
• Create excellence in technical education • Strengthening and sustaining of Industry- AcademicsGovernment- Society Partnership • Industry-Academia Interaction through Professional Associations
• Chap. 17: High quality education requires intellectual ferment in a culture which ids determined by the higher education institutes. • Chap. 16.9.3/: Encourage Industry Interactions
Industry Relevant Curriculum Planning
Research Finding
NEP 2019
• An integrated, interdisciplinary, and flexible curriculum development model incorporating the PEOs, COs, validated by formative evaluation, exposure to industrial practices, interdisciplinary research, summative evaluation and supported by the results of longitudinal Research.
• Curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and student support have to be revamped (P 9.4) • Curricula must be reviewed with a focus on the opportunities to engage deeply with the field and be more inclusive of other disciplines)P 16.9.2) • INAE WILL DEVISE APPROPRIATE CURRICULA (p 308).
Narrowing the Gap between Engineering Education and Industry
Research Findings
NEP 2019
• MODEL: SCIENCE including mathematics, TECHNOLOGY including engineering, ECONOMICS, MANAGEMENT, FIRE FIGHTING (STEMFF)
• Encouraging Industry Interactions: -Industry-Academic Collaborations -Appointing Faculty with Research and Industry Experience -Industry Experts on the Board of Studies -Internships Sharing the state –of- the art- resources
Impact of Knowledge Capital and Analyses Research Findings
NEP2019
• Review the graduate and postgraduate programs periodically against the growth of technology and industrial growth.
• National Higher Education Qualification Framework (NHEQF) for learning goals (P 12.1.3 and P12.1.4) • Stimulating learning experiences through effective teaching and pedagogical resources.
Assessment Research Findings
NEP 2019
• Introduce Valid and reliable grading and evaluation system in engineering education
• Assessment for development and not for judgement (P 12.1.6) • Curriculum and pedagogy are to be assessed.
Entrepreneurship Development Research Findings
NEP 2019
• Intrapreneurners can bring the concept of entrepreneurship development, patenting, start- ups, angle investors, • The avenues for start-ups can be included in the curriculum • The dissertations of the postgraduate students could be used to undertake projects from MSMEs
• Entrepreneurship has been suggested.
Encouragement for Self Regulated Learning Research Findings
NEP 2019
• Strategies for sell regulated learning are offered. • Encourage autonomous learning based on the research needs • Provide advanced courses and electives. • Provide industry sponsored dissertations based on the career needs.
• Provide meaningful opportunities for all social engagement for all students in higher education (P 12.1.5)
Interdisciplinary Research in Engineering Research Findings
NEP 2019
• Enhance interdisciplinary research in engineering education • Narrow the gaps between engineering education and industry • Create a research cluster
• Postgraduate education and research have to be strengthened considerably. • Postgraduate students acquire knowledge, skills, self-confidence and entrepreneurship training,. • Enable them to contribute to social and national productivity.
Future of NITTTRs Research Findings
NEP 2019
• Develop NITTRs as Research University in Engineering Education.
• New Institutional Architecture for Higher Education (P10.2, 10.3, a). • Type I Research University • Can offer undergraduate, masters, Ph.D., Professional and Vocational Programs • Centrally Funded Technical Institutions will be developed into Type-I institutions
Conclusions • The contribution of NITTTRs have to be reviewed and could be elevated to Tier I institute. • Based on the expert committee evaluation reports, the NITTTRs could be contributing to: - Faculty development - Develop interdisciplinary postgraduate and doctoral programs - Can undertake diverse global faculty development - Can contribute to the development of engineering executives - The growth of polytechnics have to ensured under NEP 2019.
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