We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. I am proud that i am a teacher .

HI FRIENDS FOR THE LAST 30 DAYS I AM ADDRESSING FRESHERS IN TOP ENGINEERING COLLEGES IN TAMILNADU ONE SOLID OBSRVATION IS THAT 2010 INTAKE STUDENTS ARE MUCH BETTER THAN 2009 INTAKE STUDENTS / ONE MAIN REASON MAY BE THIS THE STUDENTS WHO GOT ADMITTED IN TOP COLLEGES THIS YEAR HAVE SCORED WELL MATHS IN SPITE OF MATHS PAPER BEING TOUGH / ONLY STUDENTS WHO HAS GOT GOOD APPLICATION SKILLS WAS ABLE TO SCORE 195 PLUS IN MATHS OUT OF 200 / LAST YEAR 4032 STUDENTS GOT CENTUM IN MATHS WHILE THIS YEAR ONLY 1756 STUDENTS GOT CENTUM /IT GOOD TO SEE MANY TOP COLLEGES ADMITTING STUDENTS IN MANAGEMENT QUOTA REALLY SEE STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN BOTH 10TH AND 12 TH STD / TIME HAS COME NOW THAT ALL OF US SHOULD JOIN HANDS TO CONCENTRATE ON THE QUALITY OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION RATHER THAN QUANTITY /

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AUGUST 16TH THE INAUGURAL FUNCTION OF 3RD BATCH OF NARSUS SARATHY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WAS GRAND SUCCESS / MY GREAT FRIENDS MR.SRIRAM IYER AND MR.K. RAMACHANDRAN WERE CHIEF GUEST AND GUEST OF HONOUR RESPECTTIVELY / THE HIGLIGHT OF THE WHOLE PROGRAMME WAS THE SPEECH GIVEN BY 3RD YEAR STUDENT PRIYANKA OF COMPUTER SCIENCE / SHE WAS FROM RURAL BACK GROUND TAMIL MEDIUM STUDENT / SHE WAS NOT ABLE TO SPEAK A SINGLE WORD OF ENGLISH WHEN SHE JOINED FIRST YEAR / BUT NOW DURING INAUGURAL FUNCTION HELD YESTERDAY SHE SPOKE SO FLUENTLY IN ENGLISH WITH OUT SINGLE PIECE OF PAPER OR NOTES IN HER HAND IN FROND OF CROWD WHICH WAS MORE THAN 1000 PEOPLE / REAL TRANSFORMATION / VERY HAPPY AND PROVED TO THE WORLD ANYBODY CAN CHANGED TO SUCCESSFUL BY POSITIVE MOTIVATION

HI FRIENDS

THE ENGINEERING ADMISSIONS IN INDIA FOR THE YEAR 2010-11 IS ALMOST GETTING OVER / THE ANALYSIS REVELS VERY CLEARLY THAT THE BOYS HAVE PREFERRED MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND GIRLS ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AS THERE FIRST CHOICES / THE CHOICE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HAS DEFINITELY GONE UP WHEN COMPARED TO LAST YEAR / WHEN WE ANALYSE CLOSELY THE RURAL STUDENTS HAVE PREFERRED MORE OF CORE ENGINEERING BRANCHES LIKE MECHANICAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING WHILE URBAN AND CITY STUDENTS HAVE PREFERENCE FOR ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE /

THE PREFERENCE FOR ALL WOMEN ENGINEERING COLLEGE WAS AS USUAL LESS

ESPECIALLY IN TAMIL NADU STUDENTS PREFERRED CHENNAI AND COIMBATORE BASED ENGINEERING COLLEGES

ALMOST 80 % HAVE GOT FILLED THIS YEAR INCLUDING MANAGEMENT SEATS

IT MEANS ACROSS THE INDIA WE WOULD BE HAVING MORE THAT 7.5 LAKS ENGINEERING STUDENTS WOULD BE PASSING OUT IN 2014

FEW QUESTIONS I LIKE TO ASK MY FRIENDS

DO WE HAVE SUCH HUGE JOB REQUIREMENT IN ENGINEERING SECTOR ?

DO YOU FEEL THE COLLEGES WILL MAKE ALL THOSE WHO PASS WILL BE EMPLOYABLE ?

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Deemed Universities – future of the role of private investors in higher education

A fortnight has passed since the Union HRD Ministry decided to crack the whip on erring private deemed universities, The flush of emotions on all sides is ebbing away and hence it’s time to raise a few pertinent points that an unbiased audience will have.

Of course, this is not to defend any erring institution. Any educational entrepreneur who fails to render quality education to students deserves little mercy from the monitoring and enforcing organizations. In fact, everyone needs to support the Union government’s affidavit before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India that such institutions be shut down and their students relocated.

But only by due process of law.

If enforcers of the statutes need to act against those who transgress the law, and brazenly at that, it is important that the enforcers, act scrupulously by the law which they are charged with enforcing.

Look at the sequence of events in the last 8 – 10 years: private colleges, mostly those money power and political muscle have demanded and got the deemed universities. Some of them have done so due to sheer dint of hard work and the quality systems they have set in place over the years.

Over the years, a due statutory process necessary to evaluate an institution’s claim to become a deemed university has been diluted. In fact, a few years ago, the head of an institution was apprehended with a load of cash in an airport, which was allegedly to be used to bribe people to into getting university status for his college. That he still got such a status is another story!

Now for the larger questions that rise in the present situation:

What has the Union government or the P.N. Tandon committee planned to ensure that someone in the UGC or the Union government assumes full responsibility for granting University status to sub=standard institutions?

Will there be a full scale investigation in how these institution got the status and what will be penalty that should be levied on such erring officials?

Why are the Union HRD Minister and the P N Tandon committee speaking in two voices? The Union Minister Mr. Kapil Sibal is on record asking “why should we have deemed universities?” However, the Tandon committee has reportedly stated that there was nothing wrong with the concept of deemed universities if deserving institutons attain such a status by dint of merit. Who will have the final say on this?

The National Knowledge Commission and even leading academics like Prof. V.C Kulandaiswamy have said India needs another 1500 universities so that academic leadership, high end research and curriculum planning will rest with the Universities and not be spread among the 18,000 affiliated colleges in the country. It is very difficult to imagine a situation where the government alone will create such a large number of universities in the short term. The only other way would be identify the top 10 per cent of the colleges in the country and grant them university status so that they can assume the responsibility of involving in high quality research.

Private enterprise has to necessarily play a significant role in this. Considering the existing legal lacunae that has led to the deemed university fiasco, it is time the government clearly charts out a path for private investment in higher education.

A legal framework that sets rigorous standards for educational delivery and high quality research and academic activity is immediately needed. And the framework would clearly set out a legal course of action for anyone who tries to misuse the statute, dilute standards or seeks to gain university status by an act of con.

Finally, such a legal framework should include the same standards of quality in governance, educational delivery and research excellence for government run institutions too.