The draft national education policy 2019 has been critically assessed with respect to National Technical Teachers Training and Research.

1. A Critical Assessment of Draft Indian
National Policy 2019 with Respect to
National Institutes Technical Teachers
Training and Research
Thanikachalam Vedhathiri, B.E., M.Tech., Ph.D., M.S., FIE., FIGS., FFIUCIE
vthani2025@gmail.com

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3. Objectives of Research
• Conducting Policy Analysis, Investment Analysis, ROI, and the
Institutional Growth under the National Educational Policy
• Critically review the focus of NEP 2019 on the Contributions of
National Institutes of Technical Teachers Training and Research to
Indian Engineering Education and Technical Education.
• Explore the Focus shown on the Polytechnic Colleges by NEP 2019
• Suggest Needed Improvements in NEP 2019 with respect to
Engineering Faculty Development and Technician Education

4. Comparison of Polytechnic Colleges and
Vocational Institutes
Polytechnic Colleges
• Industry Relevant Curriculum
• Entry Level jobs: Middle Level
Supervisors
• Recognition: Well Recognized by
the Industry
• Entrepreneurship: Around 2-5%
• AICTE: Curriculum Approval,
Faculty Training, &
Modernization
Vocational Schools
• Need to Focus on the Entry Level
Jobs and Relevant Skills
• Entry Level Skilled Workers
• Should be focused on the
Industry Requirements
• Very less
• Not coming under AICTE but
under NCERT

5. Quality Improvement and Faculty and
Development
• Polytechnics
• Accreditation by NBA
• Development based on the
industrial growth: World Bank
assisted projects (1991-97 and
2001-2007)
• Capacity development, Quality
improvement, efficiency
improvement
• Administrative Control: Directorate
of Technical Education
• Vocational Schools
• No accreditation
• No development through any
major external funding
• No major initiative
• Administrative control: NCERT and
SCERT

6. Industrial Training and Career Growth
Polytechnics
• Board of Apprenticeship Training
offers industry based training
through various companies
• Competitors: B.E Graduates, &
AMIE.
• Well trained graduates grow
very well in the career ladder.
Vocational Institutes
• Board of Apprenticeship Training
also offers training but a few
candidates are availing the
training
• Severe competition from
industrial training institutes
• Now substantial growth.

7. Faculty Development
Polytechnics
• NITTTRs
• ISTE Summer and winter schools
• Long-term Faculty Development:
NITTTRs, Engineering Colleges/
State Technical Universities offer
B.E./B.Tech, M.E./ M.Tech, Ph.D
Vocational institutes
• NCERT
• Very few
• Long-term Faculty Development:
Only a few Arts and Science
Colleges offer B. Voc. Edn., and
Master of Vocational Education.

8. Role of NITTTRs
Faculty Development
Programs
• Short-term courses based on the
needs of the faculty members.
- Content updating
- Andragogy
- Curriculum Revision, Design
- Industrial Training
- Postgraduate Programs
- Interdisciplinary Research (Ph. D.)
in Engineering Education
Diverse Global Participants
• Short-term and Medium- term
Courses through Ministry of
External Affairs, Ministry of
Finance, & ICCR
• Programs under International
Development Agencies like ADB,
GIZ, UNDP, UNESCO, USAID,
• Under bilateral agreements.
• MOOCs

9. Mode of Executive Training for Industries
Main Institute
• Sponsored Short-Term Courses
based on the Needs of the
employees
• Planning In-House Program
Development for the Executives
and Employees
• Interdisciplinary Postgraduate
Programs and Ph.D. in Engineering
Education
• Work-life Balance
Regional Training Centers/
Executive Development Centers
• Program Planning and
Development
• Policy Planning in Employee
Development
• Training the Trainers
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Environmental Protection and
Management
• Safety in Work Practices

10. Faculty Development
Research Findings
• Plan lecturer induction programs
• Inclusion of Engineering college
faculty based on the
recommendation of the
Bhattacharya committee ( 1991)
• Conducting in-house faculty
development programs based
on the invitation
NEP 2019
• Orientation program for new
faculty (P 13.1.8, p 261)
• Setup Departments of Education
for preparing faculty for
professional education
• Offer the master degree
programs in education.

11. Internationalization of Education
Research Findings
• Development of NITTTR as
world class institute to provide
services under GATS
• Contributing to diverse global
faculty development through
various projects of International
Development Agencies like ADB,
GIZ, UNDP, UNESCO, USAID and
World Bank
NEP 2019
• Internationalization of higher
education (P 12.4)
• Internationally relevant
education (P 12.4.1)
• Encourage international
collaborations

12. Suggested Teacher Education and Development by
NEP 2019
Setting up departments of
Education for preparing faculty
for professional education
• Department of Education will
have to be setup to strengthen
teacher education in the
professional streams and into
multidisciplinary Higher
Education Institutes.
• To develop curriculum for
teacher education and offer
Master’s degree in teaching and
research
NEP 2019
• P 16.4.1
• NITTTRs have established many
masters and interdisciplinary
degrees for engineering
education.
• Developed curriculum
• Offered interdisciplinary Ph.D.
degrees in Engineering
Education.

13. Suggestions from Research and their
reflections in NEP 2019
Research Findings
• Enhancing institutional
governance beyond the Society’s
Act of 1860
• Administration through Board of
Governors
NEP 2019
• Chapter 17 (p310): Empowered
governance and effective
leadership for higher education
institutes
• Chapter 17.1 (p311): Institutes
are to be governed by an
Independent Board .
• Chapter 18.6.4.: Principles of
good governance

14. Educational Management Ecosystem
Research Finding
• Facilitate the development of
professional competence of CEOs
in Higher Education Institutes
NEP2019
• Chapter 16: Professional Education
must seek to develop individuals
with the capacity to combine a
strong foundation of theoretical
knowledge and specific
competencies;
• Abilities to connect theory to
practice
• An understanding of how the
profession impacts and is impacted
by society.

15. Performance Management
Research Finding
• Performance management and
turnaround mechanism of poorly
performing institutes
• Radical and virtual innovation
center for human resource
development center
• A model for Learning Organization
NEP 2019
• Chapter 17.1: Empowered
governance and effective
leadership
• Institutional governance should be
based on full autonomy: Academic,
Administrative, and Finance
• Chap. : 17.1.14 –Continuous
professional development for
heads of institutions and others in
leadership roles

16. Advanced Educational System
Research Finding
• To undertake International
Projects in the engineering
institutes under globalized
economy
NEP 2019
• Chap. 10: New institutional
architecture with large well-
structured , vibrant,
multidisciplinary institutions for
teaching and research

17. Transformation Models
Research Finding
• Learning Organization
• Desired Ecosystem
• Institutional Transformation and
development in engineering
education to meet Volatility,
Uncertainty, Complexity and
Ambiguity (VUCA)
NEP 2019
• Chap. 10.1.a (p212): HEIs will have
to become multidisciplinary
institutions
• Chap. 9.3 (p 208): Moving towards
faculty and institutional autonomy
• Chap. 17.1.14 (p 317): Continuous
professional development for
heads of institutions and others in
leadership roles.

18. Institutional Development Models
Research Findings
• A Critical Reappraisal of
Leadership Models in Higher
Education with a focus on Indian
Scenario
• Affiliated colleges need to be
facilitated to become deemed
universities
NEP 2019
• Chap. 17.1: Well defined
guidelines for selection of
leadership
• Tier III colleges will be
empowered to offer degrees

19. Faculty Autonomy
Research Findings
• Institutional design to support an
educational transformation in
engineering colleges in India
NEP 2019
• Through faculty autonomy
• Enable and motivate to innovate in
-teaching and pedagogical
approaches, student assessment,
community services and research
- Share the best practices and ideas
with each other university wide and
larger forums in order to
continuously improve.

20. Faculty Autonomy
Research Findings
• Transformation in Indian Engineering
Education through Academic
Autonomy to High Performing Faculty
Teams
NPE 2019
• P 13.1: Putting faculty into the heart
of higher education institutions:
- Motivate and energize to achieve high
quality in higher education
- Ensure service conditions to excellent
teaching and research enabling
vibrant university communities
through faculty empowerment
- Incentivizing excellence through merit
based career management

21. Institutional Culture
Research Finding
• Support the high performing
motivated and competent
faculty teams.
NEP 2019
• P 13.1: Create a culture of
excellence through outstanding
institutional leadership
• Higher education faculty must
be valued and supported with
excellent preparation and
conducive environments (p 258-
59)

22. Creating High Performing Institutes
Research Findings
• Accelerate autonomy to high
performing institutes
NEP 2019
• Institutional autonomy for
recruitment (P 13.1.4)
• Institutional Culture: Empower
and motivate (P 13.1.5)
• Permanent employment track
for university staff (P.13.1.6)

23. Impact of Project Polytechnics under the World
Bank assisted projects (1991-1997 & 2001-2007)
Research Findings
• Impact of project polytechnics
on the human capital
development
• Increasing the state
competitiveness
• Social innovation in the North
Eastern States
NEP 2019
• NO RECOGNITION
• NO GUIDELINES FOR THE
GROWTH OF POLYTECHNIC
COLLEGES

24. An Integrated Model for Institutional
Development
Research Findings
• Create excellence in technical
education
• Strengthening and sustaining of
Industry- Academics-
Government- Society
Partnership
• Industry-Academia Interaction
through Professional
Associations
NEP 2019
• Chap. 17: High quality education
requires intellectual ferment in a
culture which ids determined by
the higher education institutes.
• Chap. 16.9.3/: Encourage
Industry Interactions

25. Industry Relevant Curriculum Planning
Research Finding
• An integrated, interdisciplinary,
and flexible curriculum
development model incorporating
the PEOs, COs, validated by
formative evaluation, exposure to
industrial practices,
interdisciplinary research,
summative evaluation and
supported by the results of
longitudinal Research.
NEP 2019
• Curriculum, pedagogy, assessment
and student support have to be
revamped (P 9.4)
• Curricula must be reviewed with a
focus on the opportunities to
engage deeply with the field and
be more inclusive of other
disciplines)P 16.9.2)
• INAE WILL DEVISE APPROPRIATE
CURRICULA (p 308).

26. Narrowing the Gap between Engineering
Education and Industry
Research Findings
• MODEL: SCIENCE including
mathematics, TECHNOLOGY
including engineering,
ECONOMICS, MANAGEMENT, FIRE
FIGHTING (STEMFF)
NEP 2019
• Encouraging Industry Interactions:
-Industry-Academic Collaborations
-Appointing Faculty with Research
and Industry Experience
-Industry Experts on the Board of
Studies
-Internships
Sharing the state –of- the art-
resources

27. Impact of Knowledge Capital and Analyses
Research Findings
• Review the graduate and
postgraduate programs
periodically against the growth
of technology and industrial
growth.
NEP2019
• National Higher Education
Qualification Framework
(NHEQF) for learning goals (P
12.1.3 and P12.1.4)
• Stimulating learning experiences
through effective teaching and
pedagogical resources.

28. Assessment
Research Findings
• Introduce Valid and reliable
grading and evaluation system in
engineering education
NEP 2019
• Assessment for development
and not for judgement (P 12.1.6)
• Curriculum and pedagogy are to
be assessed.

29. Entrepreneurship Development
Research Findings
• Intrapreneurners can bring the
concept of entrepreneurship
development, patenting, start- ups,
angle investors,
• The avenues for start-ups can be
included in the curriculum
• The dissertations of the
postgraduate students could be
used to undertake projects from
MSMEs
NEP 2019
• Entrepreneurship has been
suggested.

30. Encouragement for Self Regulated Learning
Research Findings
• Strategies for sell regulated
learning are offered.
• Encourage autonomous learning
based on the research needs
• Provide advanced courses and
electives.
• Provide industry sponsored
dissertations based on the
career needs.
NEP 2019
• Provide meaningful
opportunities for all social
engagement for all students in
higher education (P 12.1.5)

31. Interdisciplinary Research in Engineering
Research Findings
• Enhance interdisciplinary
research in engineering
education
• Narrow the gaps between
engineering education and
industry
• Create a research cluster
NEP 2019
• Postgraduate education and
research have to be
strengthened considerably.
• Postgraduate students acquire
knowledge, skills, self-
confidence and
entrepreneurship training,.
• Enable them to contribute to
social and national productivity.

32. Future of NITTTRs
Research Findings
• Develop NITTRs as Research
University in Engineering
Education.
NEP 2019
• New Institutional Architecture for
Higher Education (P10.2, 10.3, a).
• Type I Research University
• Can offer undergraduate, masters,
Ph.D., Professional and Vocational
Programs
• Centrally Funded Technical
Institutions will be developed into
Type-I institutions

33. Conclusions
• The contribution of NITTTRs have to be reviewed and could be
elevated to Tier I institute.
• Based on the expert committee evaluation reports, the NITTTRs could
be contributing to:
- Faculty development
- Develop interdisciplinary postgraduate and doctoral programs
- Can undertake diverse global faculty development
- Can contribute to the development of engineering executives
- The growth of polytechnics have to ensured under NEP 2019.

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