Presentation on Standardisation of Education at ITU-GISFI-DS-CTIF

Presentation on Standardisation of Education at ITU-GISFI-DS-CTIF Standards Education Workshop Niels Jernes Vej 14, 4-111, Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark on October 8-9, 2012 by Dr.M.D.Tiwari Chairman, Electronics & Computer Division, BIS & Director, IIIT, Allahabad

Standardisation of Education in India The level of educational system in India: Primary Secondary and Tertiary The focus will be on tertiary level

Standardisation of Education in India There are following size of education Institutions: o Universities more than - 500 Categories are: o Central Universities - 50 o Institutes like IITs, IIITs and NITs – 40 o State owned Universities-275 o Deemed-to-be-Universities-130 o Private Universities-90 o Colleges – 25,000 including State owned, Central Government owned and private owned

Standardisation of Education in India Role of Federal Government and State Governments: o In India education is in concurrent list. o The Central Government-Ministry of Human Resource Development has management control on Institutions established by it. o Other Universities including private ones managed by Provincial Governments.

Standardisation of Education in India o Policies enumerated by Federal Government are communicated to Provincial Governments. However, Provincial Governments are all liberty to accept them or not.

Standardisation of Education in India The Governing Bodies: UGC-General education AICTE-Technical Education MCI-Medical Education DCI-Dental Education PCI-Pharmaceutical Education NCI-Nursing Education and so on These agencies provide directions for maintaining standard of education and opening of courses. The Management is also partly looked by them

Standardisation of Education in India Financial Supporting Agencies: India has a number of agencies to support education and research in various sectors. Example are: MHRD, UGC, AICTE, DST, MEA, Ministry of Ocean Development, Ministry of Energy, Department of Space, DRDO, Ministry of Health, CSIR and others. These agencies normally provide for R&D fund and establishing Centre of Excellence in identified thrust areas.

Standardisation of Education in India Maintain Standard: In view size and varied type of educational institutions maintaining of standards are difficult task. However, agencies mentioned above do circulate norms for maintaining the standards of education in the country.

Standardisation of Education in India Governance: It is a very important aspect for maintaining the standards. The key aspects: Creating a vision Create vision to help in your change effort. Develop strategies to achieve vision. Communicating the vision. Communicate the new vision and strategies to human resources. Develop new behaviour for achieving goals. Empowering human resources to act. Contd .

Standardisation of Education in India Governance: Obstacles Removal to act on Vision Develop Programme to remove obstacles for the change. Modifying systems undermining the vision Encouraging taking risk and nontraditional ideas, activities and action. Establish a Sense of Urgency. Identify and discuss crises and major opportunities. Examine societies need and competitive realities. Contd .

Standardisation of Education in India Governance: Developing a Powerful Guiding Coalition Appoint a group of people with enough power to lead the change effort. Encourage the group for team work Plans for short and long term wins Develop plans for improving performance feasibility Use enhanced credibility to make a optimum systems Promoting and encouraging employees for extraordinary achievements Contd .

Standardisation of Education in India Governance: Institutionalizing in new approaches Develop processes for new projects, themes and change vision Connect between the new behaviours and overall success Develop means to ensure leadership development and succession The above points raise the question as whether leaders are born and can be made. Contd .

Standardisation of Education in India Whether leadership is endogenous to the system, that is, every society gets leadership that it deserves. The view is that leadership can be exogenous, that is, either able to convince or mobilize the society towards higher or differential interests. The need is that there may be balance leader to lead the social system towards transformation.

Standardisation of Education in India New Efforts: The Federal Government has taken immense efforts to have a vertical as well as horizontal growth in education system. Maintenance of quality and standards are the prime objectives of the Government. Society has to transform in accepting the transformations which may not be a day’s/month’s plan.

Standardisation of Education in India Coming to IIIT-A We are maintaining high standard for teaching, learning, research and development in various areas of IT. Courses: UG Courses: B.Tech. in Information Technology and B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Five years M.Tech. Course in Biomedical Engineering along with PG courses: M.Tech. in eight areas,, MBA (IT), Master of Science in Cyber Law and Information Security and Doctoral programs.

Standardisation of Education in India Centre of Excellence Indo-Russian Centre of Biotechnology Indo-US Centre of Language Technology Indo – Danish Centre for Wireless Communication & Sensors Indo-Swiss Centre for Microelectronics Patent Referral Centre Plagiarism Detection Centre S&T Discovery Park for Rural Empowerment, Amethi Centre for Physically Disabled Persons (Being developed) I4CT, Denmark (Being established)

Standardisation of Education in India Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing & Microelectronics Bioinformatics Computer Networking and Network Security Signal Processing & Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision Child Security Carbon Trading & impact in Environment GIS & Remote Sensing Image processing Finance, Marketing, Digital Divide

Standardisation of Education in India Research Areas: Natural Language Processing Robotics Including Humanoid Robots Real-time Embedded & Computer Controlled Systems Software Engineering Wireless Communication & Sensor Networks Interactive tech. & Human Comp. Interaction Processing Disaster Management its financial risk magnitude & mitigation, financial multiplayer gaming

Standardisation of Education in India INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh California University, Riverside, USA State University of New York, Buffalo Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Korea Canberra University, Australia The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Louisiana , Switzerland Centre for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF), Aalborg University, Denmark Russian New University (RosNOU), Moscow, Russia Purvanchal University, Nepal* Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration , Ghana* University of Michigan, USA Caledonian College of Engineering, Muscat, Oman Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Standardisation of Education in India INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS Southern Taiwan University, Taiwan Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands Erasmus MC: University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Moscow, Russia The University of Lincoln, U.K. Putera Sampoerna Foundation (PSF), Jakarta M.H.Alsya Co. W.L.L., Kuwait Ohio State University & Cornell University BioLink Institute, Link Campus University, Rome, Italy Shenyang University, China

Standardisation of Education in India COLLABORATIONS with Industries: Maple Leaf India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi M/s. Corinex, Canada Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Mumbai Artificial Limb Manufacturing Corporation (ALIMCO), Kanpur, Govt. of India FORTIS Hospital, Noida, Uttar Pradesh Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Bangalore Zensar Technologies Ltd., Pune Indian Oil Corporation, Faridabad Microsoft IBM NIKSUN India Rivers Company, UK Biomedical Foundation, Canada

Standardisation of Education in India Language (Nos. 5 & cost 6 crs.) HCI - (No.1 & cost 1.50 crs.) Industry/Society (Nos.2 & cost 3.30 crs.) Education/Society (Nos. 4 & cost 7 crs.) Bioinformatics (Nos.10 &cost 4.75 crs.) Projects DST, DBT, MHRD, ICMR, MCIT, AICTE, Industries Completed - 21 Ongoing - 27 General (Nos.11 & cost- 10 crs.) Health – (Nos.3 & cost- 1 crs.) Electronics (No.1 & cost- 50 lac) Sensor – (No.1 & cost- 25 lac)

Standardisation of Education in India Science Promotion The Institute has organized the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Science Conclaves and INSPIRE Programs of GoI, MHRD & DST during December 14-21, 2008, December 08-14, 2009, December 08-14, 2010 and November 26 to December 02, 2011 respectively in which about 1500 selected young scientists, teachers and researchers actively interacted with about a dozen Nobel Laureates of repute and about 150 eminent academicians from India and abroad. The 5th Science Conclave has been planned during December 08-14, 2012 to continue the efforts being made to promote the cause of general sciences.

Standardisation of Education in India Several Questions Are we really educated? Country is rich in tradition, crafts and arts. The exploitation of rich values needs a thorough overhauling of the system. Old value systems in India has been modified. At present it is facing transition. Young generation tries to copy western culture. However, they are not a dole drum between Indian and western situations.

Standardisation of Education in India Making education high utilitarian This needs a high provoken and support from society. The capability of research in our country is extremely high. Financial support is appreciable. Slight management standard of educational system may improve education as well as research for which the Federal Government is serious and sincere to achieve in given time.