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by AS Reddy and Kulvir Singh, Thapar University, Patiala Harish Kumar, UCET, Punjab University, Chandigarh JS Saini and KS Mann, Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana
Need
There is a need to expand our higher education systems and
education serves individual good, not the social good Limitations of infrastructure and teaching faculty
Private institutions depend exclusively on the student fee, and
infrastructure and quality teachers and offering relevant and quality education, are very much in need
Objective
Creation of a technical education institution that
Imparts quality and relevant education
Responding to and remaining relevant to the dynamic employment
environment
Is both accessible and affordable Has reliable and continual sources of revenue Functions within the national regulatory framework/environment
business model
Students
Employable graduates
Infrastructure
Faculty
Society
Training and skill development activities Innovation and R&D activities Consultancy and other technical services
Industry
Funds
Private investment and ownership
public involvement limited to monitoring and regulation
innovations, R&D activities and consultancy services Industry sponsored development of infrastructure (specially laboratories and workshops) in return of technical services Endowment grants (alumni, social organizations, and other grants)
Distribution of net revenues to the investor and into a corpus
fund
Infrastructure
Buildings, lecture halls, labs, library, workshops, sophisticated
machinery and equipment, etc. The infrastructure will be created for serving the educational programs Must be effectively used (as is being used in an industry) must also be put to use in R&D activities and to provide technical services To be created from
Investment by the ownership Industry funding infrastructure in return to technical support Sponsored research projects
infrastructure
Faculty
The pyramid of expertise (basic,
extent even the specializations will exist among the faculty members Super-specializations will be electives The pyramid of expertise will not be rigid and can be changed
A faculty member will
for the R&D and consultancy works. receive two components of salary
interest is in competent (educated, trained and skilled) people Can adversely influence the development and review process
Training and skills development will also form part of the
curriculum (project semester and PG research) for enhancing employability of the graduates
However, it will not be at the cost of the education
Extra-educational Activities
The infrastructure created and the faculty employed for
the opportunities of the environment (industry!) As a part of the skill development the students (specially the PG students) will be involved in these activities for enhancing their employability These activities will keep the ranking of the institution up and increasing Part of the revenue earned will be used to compensate the faculty involved in order to create a win-win environment to both the institution and its faculty
Thank You