Telangana emerging a Dream Destination for higher education in Country

Hyderabad, Dec.22 (Maxim News): Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Telangana in partnership with Department of Collegiate & Technical Education & State Council of Higher Education, Government of Telangana organized the 3rd edition of its flagship Conference EDU Summit with the theme Academic Excellence in Higher Education through Industry Collaborations’ on 21 December 2021 in Hyderabad.

Navin Mittal, Commissioner, Department of Collegiate & Technical Education, Govt of Telangana, said that CII-ALPLA’s Dual Apprenticeship Program has brought amazing positive transformation in the select Diploma students in one year. We are witnessing a serious concern with regard to more and more students opting for CSE/ IT Courses and core courses are not being preferred. The core of growth engine lies with manufacturing sector and few core sector companies could join forces together and work closely with the academia in bringing positive transformation. Under curriculum redesign, soft skills are being included as part of the credit courses and students are bound to complete them. Specialization in minors is being brought into engineering education from this year. More seats are added into new and emerging areas and about 24,000 seats.

Prof. R Limbadri, Chairman, Telangana State Council of Higher of Higher Education, mentioned that Council is taking up many measures to improve the Industry Academia collaboration. Core groups are being formed to strengthen curruiculum, internships etc.

Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy, Vice Chancellor, JNTU Hyderabad said that Industry could consider sponsoring research projects so that the knowledge could flow from industry to the academic institutions. Our institutions need to compete with international academic institutions.

Sameer Goel, Chairman, CII Telangana Said that Education system in India focuses more on knowledge acquisition and less on skills development. However, employers expect their new hires to become productive as soon as they join the organization. Thus, there is a clear case for effective On the Job Training (OJT) for youth to become employable. The rapid pace, at which technological innovations are taking place, has brought OJT to centre stage of training. Collaboration between Academia & Industry will foster the innovation. This will find the right solutions to the right problems and also create value for the Institution, Industry as well as the society for Academic Excellence.

Prof. L Rathaiah, Chairman, Vignan University that we have encourage our youth and motivate them to achieve success. Both Industry & Academia need to fill few gaps and contribute towards knowledge transfer and establishing research labs etc. Define the industry needs well to the academia.

Prof. V Venkata Ramana, Vice Chairman, TSCHE while addressing the valedictory session said that we need to build the institutions designed for students’ success. India is the third largest higher education system and NEP is expected to bring major positive changes in the system.

Dr BVR Mohan Reddy, Chairman, Education Council, CII & Founding Chairman, CYIENT Ltd. said that the academic institutions need to work in developing individual learning pat for the students. NEP 2020 is expected to bring future ready self-reliant new India.

Vikas Gupta, Managing Director- Talent, Deloitte discussed about how models of work are changing continuously and multi disciplinary education could become a norm. He also mentioned about how academia could prepare the students in developing for the new age skills.

The conference was addressed by Mr. Ravi Chandran, Co Convenor, Education & Skills Panel, CII Telangana and Vice Chairman, Sri Vishnu Educational Society, Mr. Sri Bharat, President, GITAM University, Ms. Deepti Varma, Head-HR, Amazon India, Dr Anil Kumar Nassa, Member Secretary, NBA, Prof. S Ramachandram, VC, Anurag University, Ms. Febin, Head- College Connect, L&T EduTech and Prof. T Vijaya Lakshmi, Professor, JNTUH and many more prominent speakers. (Maxim News)

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