An Integrated Approach for Restructuring Higher Technical Education

The role of technical education is crucial to nation's development, because it is the major producer of human resource capital. It may be mentioned that education is not so much as what students learn in their classrooms, but it matters how do they learn it. The environment and needs where the potential of this vast capital of human resource is tested and harnessed is changing constantly with time. Therefore, the learning process of the higher technical education should be directed such that students and young faculty members are able to give their best; both in terms of intellectual content and skillful efforts. This paper attempts to analyze the prevailing structure of the centers of higher technical education and suggests strategies to improve their performance. It also attempts to strengthen the importance of Participative Learning Pedagogy, with emphasis on the equal and interactive participation of student in teaching process, in conjunction with generic skills, well-trained faculty, well-equipped laboratories, good student centric learning support, technical manpower support, infrastructure and entrepreneurship programme etc.