Assessing Private Engineering Colleges

Perhaps now we've more private engineering colleges than we require.The way these colleges have mushroomed almost overnight it's not expected they would impart quality education.Nor has the ministry of education ever assessed their standard.What the administration has done is routine inspection which provides no idea regarding the standard of students or the quality of education these institutes can afford.A standard engineering college must have duly qualified faculty,proper infrastructure that includes well equipped laboratories and libraries rich in reference and text books.Above all it needs good quality students whose performance in examinations and later in service life earn any institute a good name.

Govt tries to assuage the quality of private engineering colleges by comparing the marks a student gets in internal assessment done by the college and in the test conducted by the expert committee of WBUT.If the difference between these marks is quite high the concerned college must explain it.In fact it's no way to judge the quality of the college, rather it's means to assess its honesty and integrity.In fact almost all colleges award higher marks in internal assessment.However,by this process the marks obtained by the student in expert Committee's test might have reflection on the quality of this student and for that matter the quality of the college.

What's most worrying is save a few private colleges the rest get average students who've ranked low in JEE or even those who've not ranked at all but have passed XIISc exam with only 45% marks each in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.If qualifying marks for admission to an engineering college is kept such abjectly low how could one expect the standard of engineering education would be satisfactorily high in private engineering colleges?

The teaching and non teaching staff of most of the Pvt engineering colleges are not properly paid.Very few colleges have offered new pay scale to the staff.So good students hardly opt for teaching assignment in these engineering colleges. While assessing the standard of tech colleges the proposed committee should look into the grievances of the teaching and non teaching staff of pvt colleges..
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