[Assam] Seminar on higher technical education held (The Assam Tribune, 07.02.2009)

[Buljit Buragohain]

Seminar on higher technical education held
 Staff Reporter

 GUWAHATI, Feb 6 – An All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE)-sponsored national seminar on ‘Future Perspective of Higher
Technical Education in North East Region’ was held at the Srimanta
Sankardev Kalakshetra recently under the aegis of Shilling Engineering
and Management College, Jorabat.

The seminar, presided over by
CM Jha, director of the institute, was inaugurated by Dr NK Choudhury,
former Vice-Chancellor of Gauhati University. Several eminent resource
persons, besides over 200 technocrats including engineers,
industrialists, private investors in technical education, professors,
guardians and students, took part in the meet, with some of them
addressing the gathering.

Dr Gautam Baruah, director,
IIT-Guwahati, delivered the keynote address, touching upon various
issues such as the importance of quality and quantity of HS Science
Education, opening of more PG facilities in leading universities in the
NE, to remove the dual regulatory system of the AICTE and University,
etc. Dr UK Sarma coordinated the seminar. 19 research papers were
presented. 

The concluding session made several
recommendations, which include i) setting up of a technical university
in the line of Uni-Tech of New Zealand for affiliating all the
technical institutes offering certificate, diploma and degree courses
in the North-east; ii) ensuring networking among themselves and with
industries, R&D institutes and community centres, and to create a
data base of different facilities for resource sharing, including
meeting teacher shortage; iii) maintaining accountability of all
participants to all stakeholders in the technical education system for
ensuring quality education; iv) enforcement on the part of the
governments making industries and commercial organizations pay to the
universities in different kinds; v) provision for a common admission
test for avoiding appearance in too many tests by the students; vi)
initiating attractive measures to restrict flight of teachers; vii)
including IT courses in all course works, etc.


(The Assam Tribune,07.02.2009)



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