International Comparative Study : Engineering Education in India
The central and state governments of India have been pursuing several reforms in the higher education sector. In engineering education, the government has already embarked on several reforms within the current legislative framework. Given this dyna...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/04/17844321/international-comparative-study-engineering-education-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16562 |
| Summary: | The central and state governments of
India have been pursuing several reforms in the higher
education sector. In engineering education, the government
has already embarked on several reforms within the current
legislative framework. Given this dynamic momentum, the
engineering education sector in India is expected to receive
a significant boost over the next few years. It is therefore
timely to take stock and review the position of the sector
internationally. This study thus aims to provide the
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), the All India
Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and relevant
stakeholders with key facts, reliable data, and the results
of relevant international comparisons to establish a common
ground and to help in measuring the performance of the
current engineering education system in India. The
government also recognizes the importance of lessons that
may be learned from the other Brazil, the Russian
Federation, India, and China (BRIC) countries, and these
countries were therefore selected for the comparison. This
report is organized as follows: section one gives
introduction; section two briefly discusses the background
of both general higher education and engineering education
in India. Section three reviews earlier comparative studies
on international engineering education. Section four
describes the scope of the study. Section five explains the
methodology of data collection and identifies the data
sources. Section six outlines the analysis of the collected
data and the findings. Section seven presents conclusions.
The appendixes describe the engineering education systems of
the various countries examined in the study, the related
challenges and opportunities, and the future policy goals in
each country. |
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