Indian Institute of Technologies (IIT) have approached Government to consider issuing B.Sc. Engineering to academically weak students. This will be given after three years.
The reason being:
The latest move comes amid worries over a high attrition rate in the IITs that saw over 2,461 students dropping out from the 23 institutes in the last two years (both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level), according to data shared by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in Parliament in July. Most of the dropouts occurred in the older IITs — Delhi tops the list with 782 dropouts, followed by 622 in Kharagpur, 263 in Bombay, 190 in Kanpur and 128 in Madras, a report by Hindustan Times on the HRD data said.
Poor academic performance of students has been highlighted as one of the main reasons behind the students dropping out. Even Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank highlighted the issue in the Rajya Sabha.
“..the drop out in undergraduate programmes is attributed to withdrawal due to wrong choices filled, poor academic performance of students, personal and medical reasons,” he said.
Questions:
1. Who is responsible for such faulty admissions? Students alone or the IIT selection process?
2. Why IIT should be sympathetic for such students who have wasted Government resources?
3. Instead of awarding partial degrees Government should collect extra amounts from them for using Government resources?
4. Are students academically weak or the teaching staff of IIT are incapable of improving them?
5. Why the Dean / Professors income is not linked to the student attrition rates? More attrition less incentives?
6. Can other institutions like IIMs can issue such partial degrees?
7. Is this the direct outcome of the Cramming sessions of coaching classes at Kota?
8. Is this a cover-up procedure for faulty education system in these great institutions?
9. It is assumed by IITs that their teaching staff is of excellent quality or the root lies in its faulty selection of Professors?
10. Is it academically weak students or academically weak professors?
It is understandable why no universities from India appeared in the top 300 universities in the world.
Prophetic statement by Narayana Murthy (INFOSYS founder) way back in 2011:
“Thanks to the coaching classes today, the quality of students entering IITs has gone lower and lower,”
“They somehow get through the joint entrance examination. But their performance in IITs, at jobs or when they come for higher education in institutes in the US is not as good as it used to be. “This has to be corrected. A new method of selection of students to IITs has to be arrived at.”
Lets remember Swami Vivekananda "The Guru has to bear the disciple's burden of sin."
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