Experts for uniform, competitive curriculum

Vice Chancellor of Assam Science and Technology University, Guwahati P K Goswami stressed the need for evolving a uniform and competitive curriculum for various courses designed carefully to match the international standard.
Goswami said the choice based credit system (CBCS) introduced by the University Grant Commission (UGC) would enable the students to acquire communication, technology, thinking, professional and information skills, besides discipline knowledge and understanding and international perspective.
He was speaking at a national conference on creating employment opportunities through professional and technical education, organised by A P Goyal Shimla University (APGSU) here.
Stressing on need to include the basic skill training courses for engineering students, Goswami said the students must have basic knowledge with uniform course curriculum, besides practical and industrial knowledge, and they should attain certain amount of soft skills and basic skills through skill development programmes to be employable.

Pro Vice Chancellor of APGSU B Ramaswamy underscored the need to eliminate vocational educating consisting of low level courses, job training and single electives and replacing these with academically rigorous, integrated and sequenced programmes of study that lead to postsecondary education.
He also recommended expansion and upgradation of vocational education and training, redesigning of education pattern at school level to facilitate skill development, promotion of entrepreneurial programmes and expansion and upgradation of higher and technical education.

"As all students of mathematics would not become engineers, the training in logic and the understanding of how machines work will enable them to be engaged in any and every course of life and career they pursue," said director of Discourse Academy Publications (AVP) Rakesh Kumar Jha.

Ajit Nedungadi, director (admissions and marketing) at APGSU said that the Indian youth have huge potential and if trained properly they would reach great heights.
He said 38 per cent of doctors in the US are Indians, 12 per cent of scientists in the world are Indians, 36 per cent of NASA employees are again Indians.