This document summarizes a research study that examined the influence of various "people factors" on students' selection of technical educational institutes in India. The study found that geographical and demographic factors of students, such as gender, parents' occupation and income level, are related to the influence of different people in the selection process. These "people factors" included parents, siblings, relatives, friends, teachers, current/past students, and institute staff and management. A survey was conducted of 649 current and past students across different technical programs. The results showed that certain influencers, like parents, had a statistically significant influence on students' selection that differed based on gender. Overall, the study provides empirical evidence that considering geographical/demographic
By The People For The People: People’s Influence On Students In Selecting Tec...Prashant Mahajan
The marketing segmentation of technical education will be better if we consider these reference groups (people mix) as an influencer. It is found that there are some People Mix - influencers - related to the institute and previous schools along with peoples associated with the students. So, it is useful to consider all these influencers rather than considering only traditional students related influencers. This article provides empirical support for the importance of interpersonal influence for educational choices. Different communication strategies can be used for these influencers who motivates students towards their decision in selecting technical education. The paper represents new form of influencers that motivates students in selecting their technical educational institute.
e-Promotion: A Revolution In Technical Education EvolutionPrashant Mahajan
In the era of globalization internet plays a vital role in all spheres of life and industries. Whether you sell products online or not, e-Promotion is essential for virtually every business. Internet users in India growing very fast in India, as per the latest report of Internet and Mobile Association of India, India will overtake the US (as the second largest base). As per the research by US based research firm e-Marketer (2014), India will overtake the US as the second largest market for Smartphone in the world by 2016. With the help of Internet on mobile phones (Smartphone), online news or information can be read anytime and anywhere. This is the biggest opportunities for the Institutes offering TechnicalEducation in India. Creating an e-presence is much more than creating a small website with contact details. An e-presence is the image of an institute that will be created in the eyes of every visitor whenever they access website or come across with any social networking links on the Internet while browsing. These foot prints play a very important role in the virtual brand image creation, attracting students and developing relationship with the community.
Engineering a Woman: Marketing Opportunities and Challenges in IndiaPrashant Mahajan
Equity does not just mean an equal number of women and
men; it means equal chances of success and career
development; average women will succeed as much as average
men. The Indian governments initiatives like National Program
for Education of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL),
Rashtriya Mahilakosh (RMK), Kasturba Gandhi Balika
Vidyalaya (KGBV), Working Women Hostels, National
Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW), Sarva
Shiksha Abhiyan shall be extended and oriented further more
towards engineering education for the dream come true of
Digital India and Smart Cities with more encouragement of
women in engineering. The strategic marketing aim must be to
‘normalize’ engineering as a career choice for women, so that
people inside and outside of engineering no longer presume
that ‘the engineer’ will be men. Marketing efforts to recruit
more women into engineering must avoid appealing to gender
which associate men and masculinity with ‘things technical’
and women with ‘things social’. In sum, we must broaden the
image and vision of engineering work from technical to
techno-social if we are to attract and keep talented women in
engineering. Engineering has room for diverse ‘types’ of
people because it incorporates a wide variety of jobs and roles.
Women engineering education is a multi-dimensional
phenomenon; marketing efforts to attract women in
engineering shall not be limited to the institutes/service
providers, but it shall be responsibility of the government,
NGOs and community as a whole, for India to be Super Power.
If engineering education is a signifier of development, it
should incorporate a gender perspective to it. Perhaps then, we
will see more women enjoying success and fully participating in engineering education.
The opinion of students of Arts and Science Colleges in Tamil Nadu regarding ...journal ijrtem
In this study the researcher has taken the opinion of the students of Arts and Science colleges in
Tamil Nadu, influence of the stakeholders (sources) in imparting the employability skills by using the t-test and
the students are clustered as different groups based on their attitude in utilizing the skills by applying factor
analysis.
By The People For The People: People’s Influence On Students In Selecting Tec...Prashant Mahajan
The marketing segmentation of technical education will be better if we consider these reference groups (people mix) as an influencer. It is found that there are some People Mix - influencers - related to the institute and previous schools along with peoples associated with the students. So, it is useful to consider all these influencers rather than considering only traditional students related influencers. This article provides empirical support for the importance of interpersonal influence for educational choices. Different communication strategies can be used for these influencers who motivates students towards their decision in selecting technical education. The paper represents new form of influencers that motivates students in selecting their technical educational institute.
e-Promotion: A Revolution In Technical Education EvolutionPrashant Mahajan
In the era of globalization internet plays a vital role in all spheres of life and industries. Whether you sell products online or not, e-Promotion is essential for virtually every business. Internet users in India growing very fast in India, as per the latest report of Internet and Mobile Association of India, India will overtake the US (as the second largest base). As per the research by US based research firm e-Marketer (2014), India will overtake the US as the second largest market for Smartphone in the world by 2016. With the help of Internet on mobile phones (Smartphone), online news or information can be read anytime and anywhere. This is the biggest opportunities for the Institutes offering TechnicalEducation in India. Creating an e-presence is much more than creating a small website with contact details. An e-presence is the image of an institute that will be created in the eyes of every visitor whenever they access website or come across with any social networking links on the Internet while browsing. These foot prints play a very important role in the virtual brand image creation, attracting students and developing relationship with the community.
Engineering a Woman: Marketing Opportunities and Challenges in IndiaPrashant Mahajan
Equity does not just mean an equal number of women and
men; it means equal chances of success and career
development; average women will succeed as much as average
men. The Indian governments initiatives like National Program
for Education of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL),
Rashtriya Mahilakosh (RMK), Kasturba Gandhi Balika
Vidyalaya (KGBV), Working Women Hostels, National
Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW), Sarva
Shiksha Abhiyan shall be extended and oriented further more
towards engineering education for the dream come true of
Digital India and Smart Cities with more encouragement of
women in engineering. The strategic marketing aim must be to
‘normalize’ engineering as a career choice for women, so that
people inside and outside of engineering no longer presume
that ‘the engineer’ will be men. Marketing efforts to recruit
more women into engineering must avoid appealing to gender
which associate men and masculinity with ‘things technical’
and women with ‘things social’. In sum, we must broaden the
image and vision of engineering work from technical to
techno-social if we are to attract and keep talented women in
engineering. Engineering has room for diverse ‘types’ of
people because it incorporates a wide variety of jobs and roles.
Women engineering education is a multi-dimensional
phenomenon; marketing efforts to attract women in
engineering shall not be limited to the institutes/service
providers, but it shall be responsibility of the government,
NGOs and community as a whole, for India to be Super Power.
If engineering education is a signifier of development, it
should incorporate a gender perspective to it. Perhaps then, we
will see more women enjoying success and fully participating in engineering education.
The opinion of students of Arts and Science Colleges in Tamil Nadu regarding ...journal ijrtem
In this study the researcher has taken the opinion of the students of Arts and Science colleges in
Tamil Nadu, influence of the stakeholders (sources) in imparting the employability skills by using the t-test and
the students are clustered as different groups based on their attitude in utilizing the skills by applying factor
analysis.
FAMILY FINANCIAL STATUS AND STUDENTS’ ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION: THE MEDIATOR...IAEME Publication
The paper investigated whether entrepreneurship education mediates the
relationship between students’ family financial status income and their
entrepreneurial intentions or not. Family financial status is defined in this study in
terms of parent’s annual income. Questionnaire was employed to collect data from a
total sample of 320 final year under graduate students of higher education institutions
in Northern Nigeria. The students were selected by using multi-stage stratified random
sampling technique. Mediation analysis using PROCESS MACRO was employed and
bootstrapping technique was used to test the hypothesis of the study. The result
indicates that Family Financial Status (FFS) is indirectly related to students’
Entrepreneurial Intentions (EI) through its relationship with Entrepreneurship
Education (EE). First, the result showed that Family Financial Status had significant
effect on Entrepreneurship Education, and the observed effect on Entrepreneurship
Education was subsequently related to higher Entrepreneurial Intention. The
bootstrap samples indicated that the indirect effect of Family Financial Status on
students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions through Entrepreneurship Education was
completely above zero, which led us to conclude that Entrepreneurship Education
mediates the relationship between Family Financial Status and Student’
Entrepreneurial Intentions. The study recommends that entrepreneurship education
should be encouraged as it proves to be a powerful stimulant for promoting
entrepreneurship intention among students
Features MPM's K-12 Journey Map and a discussion of mentoring's impact on youth academic outcomes. Quality In Action webinar, hosted monthly by Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota. June 2, 2010.
Olson, james caring and the college professor focus v8 n1 2014William Kritsonis
William Allan Kritsonis, Editor-in-Chief, NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS (Founded 1982). Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, Distinguished Alumnus, Central Washington University, College of Education and Professional Studies, Ellensburg, Washington; Invited Guest Lecturer, Oxford Round Table, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Hall of Honor, Prairie View A&M University/Member of the Texas A&M University System. Professor of Educational Leadership, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin.
An Investigation into Gaps in the Flow of Communication at Institutional Leve...ijtsrd
This study investigated the communication challenges between staff members and management within universities in Lesotho. These communication flow gaps are mainly caused by top to bottom mode of communication with management concentrating on channeling information down to subordinates leaving little room for subordinates to express themselves freely by initiating communication with management. This mode of communication has the negative effect of demoralizing staff causing high staff turnover in the institutions of higher learning and this is detrimental to the progress of the learner. The study gathered information through questionnaires and the data was presented and analyzed quantitatively through tables and graphs. The results reflect that the top to bottom communication model predominantly used by management in Lesotho is not effective in bringing the best out of university staff. Mukurunge | Takura Bhila "An Investigation into Gaps in the Flow of Communication at Institutional Level: Case of Universities in Lesotho" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-2 , February 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd21402.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/other/21402/an-investigation-into-gaps-in-the-flow-of-communication-at-institutional-level-case-of-universities-in-lesotho/mukurunge
Unfinished: Insights From Ongoing Work to Accelerate Outcomes for Students Wi...Jeremy Knight
Despite some gains over the past 20 years, significant numbers of students are not meeting grade-level expectations as defined by performance on academic assessments. Meanwhile, few schools are able to support the sort of accelerated academic learning needed to catch students up to grade-level expectations.
Evidence indicates this is not for lack of educator commitment or dedication. Instead, many educators lack clarity about how to help students catch up. Common messages about holding a high bar for academic rigor and personalizing learning to meet students where they are can be perceived as being at odds with one another.
“Unfinished: Insights From Ongoing Work to Accelerate Outcomes for Students With Learning Gaps” synthesizes a broad body of research on the science of learning in order to inform efforts to help students close gaps and meet grade-level expectations. This deck argues that helping students catch up is not about rigor or personalization — classrooms need both.
Closing learning gaps requires students to be motivated and engaged to grapple with challenging, grade-level skills and knowledge — while also having their individual learning needs met.
The report identifies what must happen among educators, systems-level leaders, teacher developers, instructional materials providers, and technology experts to move beyond the dichotomy of “rigor versus personalization” and toward a future that effectively blends the two.
Abstract- This study aims to determine and classify the barriers experienced by students to start entrepreneurship. This type of research is exploratory. The sampling technique used proportionate stratified random sampling with a total sample of 262 people. The Data analysis technique used is Factor Analysis. The collected data is processed statistically using SPSS version 24.0. The result of the research shows that there are seven new factors that can hamper the students to start the business, first the basic ability of entrepreneurship, the two factors of striving, the three factors of future uncertainty, the four factors of courage, the five resource factors, the six risk factors, the seven information factors.
A Study on Life Skills among Arts and Science College Studentsijtsrd
The study investigated life skills among college students. The respondents of the survey were 300 young adults aged 18 to 28 years from six colleges in Coimbatore. Life skills Development Inventory College Form was used to measure life skills in four domains interpersonal communication, decision making, health maintenance and identity development. The findings revealed there is a significant in a study on life skills among arts and science college students with respect to College Locality, Type of Group and Parents Education and not with Gender, Medium of Instruction, Type of Family and Parents Income. Ms. D. Siva Shankari | Dr. K. Eagavalli ""A Study on Life Skills among Arts and Science College Students"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25110.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/25110/a-study-on-life-skills-among-arts-and-science-college-students/ms-d-siva-shankari
Organizational Justice and Academic Staff Performance among Public and Privat...ijtsrd
The organizational conflicts among employers and employees in tertiary institutions most especially public institutions has remained a recurring spike in Nigeria that undermine the overall performance of lecturers and students outcomes in the institutions. The specific objective of this research is to investigate the extent of significant differences in organizational justice among lecturers in public and private universities in relation to academic staff commitment in tertiary institutions in South South States in Nigeria which is also in line with the research question and hypothesis. The research adopted a descriptive survey research design, the population of the study is 400. Factorial analysis of variance was used to test hypothesis with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS version 20. Cronbach alpha was used to test the reliability of the instrument. The findings revealed that there is level of significant differences in interactional justice in relations to lecturer students relationship between academic staff in public and private universities in South South Nigeria, in conclusion equitable distribution of resources, fair procedures for job decisions, with appropriate allocation of resources and fair communication of decisions will result in high academic staff performance towards higher academic excellence. The researcher recommends among others that management of both public and private universities should come out with supportive policies as a way of promoting interactional justice toward maintaining lecturer student relationship which can be done through integrating the philosophy of target education programme established in 1990 by Aumua and Drake 2002 . Musah Ishaq | Prof. Lilian O. Orogbu | Dr. Ndubuisi-Okolo Purity U. ""Organizational Justice and Academic Staff Performance among Public and Private Tertiary Institutions in South-South States of Nigeria"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-2 , February 2020,
URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30205.pdf
Paper Url : https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/general-management/30205/organizational-justice-and-academic-staff-performance-among-public-and-private-tertiary-institutions-in-south-south-states-of-nigeria/musah-ishaq
Approach to Employability Skills in Technical Education & its impact on satis...Prashant Mahajan
Ample of the current motivation to teach and assess employability skills will decide India’s ability to compete in the world economy. For a win-win situation, there must not be any differences in Institute’s perception and students’ experience in accessing employability skills for future prospective. What this paper aims to demonstrate is that, although as academics/service providers, we can use a general term “Employability skills”, we need to describe what is meant by this term to students, and colleges also need to recognize how their services and skill development are impacting on satisfaction of students while accessing employability skills. The purpose of this study is to examine the importance perceived by the institutes and experience realized by the students and to connect employability skills’ growth on students’ satisfaction of selection of an institute of Technical Education.
ONLY EDUCATION IS NOT ENOUGH: A NECESSITY OF ALL-INCLUSIVE SERVICES FOR TECHN...Prashant Mahajan
In addition to create challenging and congruent learning opportunities, it is important for Technical Education providers to create a supportive learning environment to help learners acclimate, connect with others and as well as access well-matched student support services to help them complete their studies and make them employable.Skill building is verycrucial to ensure employability of academia to understand and make sure good jobs. Unfortunately, most of the Technical Education institutes in India have not identified the importance of such services, resulting huge unemployment and dissatisfied students. The purpose of this paper is to highlight supporting and extension services in connection to operating services in Technical Education and students‘ perception on them.
FAMILY FINANCIAL STATUS AND STUDENTS’ ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION: THE MEDIATOR...IAEME Publication
The paper investigated whether entrepreneurship education mediates the
relationship between students’ family financial status income and their
entrepreneurial intentions or not. Family financial status is defined in this study in
terms of parent’s annual income. Questionnaire was employed to collect data from a
total sample of 320 final year under graduate students of higher education institutions
in Northern Nigeria. The students were selected by using multi-stage stratified random
sampling technique. Mediation analysis using PROCESS MACRO was employed and
bootstrapping technique was used to test the hypothesis of the study. The result
indicates that Family Financial Status (FFS) is indirectly related to students’
Entrepreneurial Intentions (EI) through its relationship with Entrepreneurship
Education (EE). First, the result showed that Family Financial Status had significant
effect on Entrepreneurship Education, and the observed effect on Entrepreneurship
Education was subsequently related to higher Entrepreneurial Intention. The
bootstrap samples indicated that the indirect effect of Family Financial Status on
students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions through Entrepreneurship Education was
completely above zero, which led us to conclude that Entrepreneurship Education
mediates the relationship between Family Financial Status and Student’
Entrepreneurial Intentions. The study recommends that entrepreneurship education
should be encouraged as it proves to be a powerful stimulant for promoting
entrepreneurship intention among students
Features MPM's K-12 Journey Map and a discussion of mentoring's impact on youth academic outcomes. Quality In Action webinar, hosted monthly by Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota. June 2, 2010.
Olson, james caring and the college professor focus v8 n1 2014William Kritsonis
William Allan Kritsonis, Editor-in-Chief, NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS (Founded 1982). Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, Distinguished Alumnus, Central Washington University, College of Education and Professional Studies, Ellensburg, Washington; Invited Guest Lecturer, Oxford Round Table, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Hall of Honor, Prairie View A&M University/Member of the Texas A&M University System. Professor of Educational Leadership, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin.
An Investigation into Gaps in the Flow of Communication at Institutional Leve...ijtsrd
This study investigated the communication challenges between staff members and management within universities in Lesotho. These communication flow gaps are mainly caused by top to bottom mode of communication with management concentrating on channeling information down to subordinates leaving little room for subordinates to express themselves freely by initiating communication with management. This mode of communication has the negative effect of demoralizing staff causing high staff turnover in the institutions of higher learning and this is detrimental to the progress of the learner. The study gathered information through questionnaires and the data was presented and analyzed quantitatively through tables and graphs. The results reflect that the top to bottom communication model predominantly used by management in Lesotho is not effective in bringing the best out of university staff. Mukurunge | Takura Bhila "An Investigation into Gaps in the Flow of Communication at Institutional Level: Case of Universities in Lesotho" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-2 , February 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd21402.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/other/21402/an-investigation-into-gaps-in-the-flow-of-communication-at-institutional-level-case-of-universities-in-lesotho/mukurunge
Unfinished: Insights From Ongoing Work to Accelerate Outcomes for Students Wi...Jeremy Knight
Despite some gains over the past 20 years, significant numbers of students are not meeting grade-level expectations as defined by performance on academic assessments. Meanwhile, few schools are able to support the sort of accelerated academic learning needed to catch students up to grade-level expectations.
Evidence indicates this is not for lack of educator commitment or dedication. Instead, many educators lack clarity about how to help students catch up. Common messages about holding a high bar for academic rigor and personalizing learning to meet students where they are can be perceived as being at odds with one another.
“Unfinished: Insights From Ongoing Work to Accelerate Outcomes for Students With Learning Gaps” synthesizes a broad body of research on the science of learning in order to inform efforts to help students close gaps and meet grade-level expectations. This deck argues that helping students catch up is not about rigor or personalization — classrooms need both.
Closing learning gaps requires students to be motivated and engaged to grapple with challenging, grade-level skills and knowledge — while also having their individual learning needs met.
The report identifies what must happen among educators, systems-level leaders, teacher developers, instructional materials providers, and technology experts to move beyond the dichotomy of “rigor versus personalization” and toward a future that effectively blends the two.
Abstract- This study aims to determine and classify the barriers experienced by students to start entrepreneurship. This type of research is exploratory. The sampling technique used proportionate stratified random sampling with a total sample of 262 people. The Data analysis technique used is Factor Analysis. The collected data is processed statistically using SPSS version 24.0. The result of the research shows that there are seven new factors that can hamper the students to start the business, first the basic ability of entrepreneurship, the two factors of striving, the three factors of future uncertainty, the four factors of courage, the five resource factors, the six risk factors, the seven information factors.
A Study on Life Skills among Arts and Science College Studentsijtsrd
The study investigated life skills among college students. The respondents of the survey were 300 young adults aged 18 to 28 years from six colleges in Coimbatore. Life skills Development Inventory College Form was used to measure life skills in four domains interpersonal communication, decision making, health maintenance and identity development. The findings revealed there is a significant in a study on life skills among arts and science college students with respect to College Locality, Type of Group and Parents Education and not with Gender, Medium of Instruction, Type of Family and Parents Income. Ms. D. Siva Shankari | Dr. K. Eagavalli ""A Study on Life Skills among Arts and Science College Students"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25110.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/25110/a-study-on-life-skills-among-arts-and-science-college-students/ms-d-siva-shankari
Organizational Justice and Academic Staff Performance among Public and Privat...ijtsrd
The organizational conflicts among employers and employees in tertiary institutions most especially public institutions has remained a recurring spike in Nigeria that undermine the overall performance of lecturers and students outcomes in the institutions. The specific objective of this research is to investigate the extent of significant differences in organizational justice among lecturers in public and private universities in relation to academic staff commitment in tertiary institutions in South South States in Nigeria which is also in line with the research question and hypothesis. The research adopted a descriptive survey research design, the population of the study is 400. Factorial analysis of variance was used to test hypothesis with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS version 20. Cronbach alpha was used to test the reliability of the instrument. The findings revealed that there is level of significant differences in interactional justice in relations to lecturer students relationship between academic staff in public and private universities in South South Nigeria, in conclusion equitable distribution of resources, fair procedures for job decisions, with appropriate allocation of resources and fair communication of decisions will result in high academic staff performance towards higher academic excellence. The researcher recommends among others that management of both public and private universities should come out with supportive policies as a way of promoting interactional justice toward maintaining lecturer student relationship which can be done through integrating the philosophy of target education programme established in 1990 by Aumua and Drake 2002 . Musah Ishaq | Prof. Lilian O. Orogbu | Dr. Ndubuisi-Okolo Purity U. ""Organizational Justice and Academic Staff Performance among Public and Private Tertiary Institutions in South-South States of Nigeria"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-2 , February 2020,
URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30205.pdf
Paper Url : https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/general-management/30205/organizational-justice-and-academic-staff-performance-among-public-and-private-tertiary-institutions-in-south-south-states-of-nigeria/musah-ishaq
Approach to Employability Skills in Technical Education & its impact on satis...Prashant Mahajan
Ample of the current motivation to teach and assess employability skills will decide India’s ability to compete in the world economy. For a win-win situation, there must not be any differences in Institute’s perception and students’ experience in accessing employability skills for future prospective. What this paper aims to demonstrate is that, although as academics/service providers, we can use a general term “Employability skills”, we need to describe what is meant by this term to students, and colleges also need to recognize how their services and skill development are impacting on satisfaction of students while accessing employability skills. The purpose of this study is to examine the importance perceived by the institutes and experience realized by the students and to connect employability skills’ growth on students’ satisfaction of selection of an institute of Technical Education.
ONLY EDUCATION IS NOT ENOUGH: A NECESSITY OF ALL-INCLUSIVE SERVICES FOR TECHN...Prashant Mahajan
In addition to create challenging and congruent learning opportunities, it is important for Technical Education providers to create a supportive learning environment to help learners acclimate, connect with others and as well as access well-matched student support services to help them complete their studies and make them employable.Skill building is verycrucial to ensure employability of academia to understand and make sure good jobs. Unfortunately, most of the Technical Education institutes in India have not identified the importance of such services, resulting huge unemployment and dissatisfied students. The purpose of this paper is to highlight supporting and extension services in connection to operating services in Technical Education and students‘ perception on them.
Promoting an Institute: An essential obligation for Technical Education Evolu...Prashant Mahajan
Purpose:Technical education in India contributes a major share to the overall education system and plays a
vital role in the social and economic development of the nation. Despite of rapid growth of technical
education in last decade in terms of the no. of institutes and intake capacity in India, institutes failed to
attract enrollments. Last three years saw, increasing gap in between the actual no. of enrollments and intake
capacity; 46% of seats were vacant in Technical Education in India in 2015. The purpose of this paper is to
highlight institute’s role in promoting enrollments in Technical education.
Design methodology: A qualitative research by a survey (through a structured questionnaire) of students
who are presently enrolled (Current-students) and those who have completed their study (Alumni) belonging
to the institutes offering Technical Education situated in Khandesh region of India and affiliated to the
North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon.
Findings: The study found that diversified characteristics of enrollments are related with the promotion mix
of TE institute in selection of technical educational institute. This study investigates the usefulness of school
visits, institution publications, websites, campus visits, word-of-mouth (friends, alumni, school teachers),
advertisements (radio, television, magazines) and events on campus, as a tool of promotion. Social
Networking and Institute’s Website are the new forms of promotion mix in selection TE institute in rural
part of India.
Research limitations: The survey is delimited to the enrollments of technical education belonging to North
Maharashtra University, Jalgaon and located in Khandesh region of India.
Practical implications
60-70% of population belongs to rural part of India. Different promotional strategies of promotion mix can
be used based on geographic and demographic segmentation. This will enhance, making awareness,
fondness regarding Technical Education in the rural part and will act as lubricant in decision making of
selecting their technical educational institute.
Keywords: Enrollments, Segmentation, Promotion Mix, Technical Education.
ARE THE SERVICES DELIVERED EMPLOYABLE? A SCENARIO OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN R...Prashant Mahajan
One of the most appalling challenges in India is persistently rising unemployment, explicitly in
the rural region. More than 20% of Indian youth between the ages of 15 and 24 years are “seeking
or available for work,” as per 2011 census data. There will be no peace and prosperity in the
country unless jobless people get appropriate channel. In India deficiency of skills is among the
main constraints for recruitment of Technical Education. Productivity of Technical Education in
not entirely absorbed due to lack of skills required by the employers. Along with the ample
arguments, taking place in recent times, regarding reformation in the productivity of Technical
Education, this present study syndicates focus on services delivered and its impact on employability
skills. The objective of this paper is to find out whether Technical Education institutes in rural part
are keen to focus on the employability skills? The paper also focuses on distinguished skills
required by the employer for recruitment. The study also emphases on the services offered by the
Institutes and their correlation on skills development.
Downcast Enrollments: A Desperate Need of Holistic Marketing for Technical Ed...Prashant Mahajan
Modern history has shown that only those countries, which could acquire capability to develop and apply science and technology, have found great success to grow their wealth and improve living conditions of their population. Technical education in India contributes a major share to the overall education system and plays a vital role in the social and economic development of the nation. There is a rapid growth of technical education in last decade in terms of the no. of institutes and intake capacity in India, however, institutes failed to attract enrollments which observed noticeable gap in between the actual no. of enrollments and intake capacity. In the year 2015-16, 46% of seats were vacant in Technical Education in India. The purpose of this paper is to highlight holistic marketing approach with promotion mix on diversified enrollments to motivate enrollments in selecting institute of Technical education.
Recovery: Job Growth and Education Requirements Through 2020CEW Georgetown
Recovery: Job Growth and Education Requirements Through 2020: Projections of jobs and education requirements through 2020. This report shows where the jobs will be by education level, occupation and industry. Recovery 2020 is an update to our Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018.
3 hard facts shaping higher education thinking and behaviorGrant Thornton LLP
Expansion in tuition, enrollment, faculty, buildings, and everything else ― is fast becoming a thing of the past. Institutions will have to carefully pick initiatives, making clear choices about what to do and, most significantly, what not to do. Download 2016 State of higher education >> http://gt-us.co/1UbUF56
African Americans: College Majors and Earnings CEW Georgetown
While college access has increased among African Americans, they are overrepresented in majors that lead to low-paying jobs. In our new report, African Americans: College Majors and Earnings shows that African Americans are underrepresented in the number of college majors associated with the fastest growing, highest-paying occupations. Read the full report: http://bit.ly/20M28d1
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Encouraging Enrolments by People’s Influence; A desperate need for Technical Education Evolution
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Encouraging Enrolments by People’s
Influence; A desperate need for Technical
Education Evolution
Mahajan P. T #1
, Golahit S. B.*2
# Registrar, R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur, Maharashtra, India
*
Associate Professor, KVPS’s, S.P.D.M. College, Shirpur, Maharashtra, India
Abstract—
There is a rapid growth of technical education in
last decade in terms of the no. of institutes and
intake capacity in India but with improper and non-
directional development. As per AICTE reports,
there is noticeable gap in between the actual no. of
enrolments and intake capacity of these institutes. In
the year 2015-16, 46% of seats were vacant in
Technical Education in India. Segmentation and
‘People’ factor of service mix is very important
aspects in education services. The purpose of this
paper is to highlight the influence of people mix on
geographical and demographical factors of students
in selecting technical educational institute. The
study found that geographical and demographical
factors of students are highly related with the people
mix in selection of technical educational institute.
Several studies have revealed that the marketing
segmentation of technical education will be better
developed if we consider geographical and
demographical factors and then implementing
people mix. It is found that there are some People
mix - influencers - related to the institute and
previous schools along with peoples associated with
the students that are associated with geographical
and demographical factors. So, it is useful to
consider this association rather than considering
only traditional factors. This article provides
empirical support for the importance of such factors
and their effect on educational choices. Different
communication strategies of people mix can be used
based on geographical and demographical factors
which will proceed to not only growth but
development of technical education in proper
direction also. The paper represents new form of
geographical and demographical factors with
various people mix of educational service, that
together affects students’ decision in selecting their
technical educational institute.
Keywords— People Mix, Marketing Segmentation,
Technical Education (TE).
I. INTRODUCTION
As technical education (TE) in India is turning more
competitive, it has become necessary for TE
institutions to engage in strategic marketing. More
than promotional activities, strategic marketing
involves to draw students toward the institution; it
should also include market segmentation and
positioning [1]. The reason why segmentation is
important and timely is that universities and
institutes are currently struggling with how to best
serve their learners in the face of declining financial
resources, increased calls for accountability by
Government, increasing competition among
institutions and more discerning students,
particularly those referred to as the ‘millennials’ [2].
While some prospective students share similar
characteristics but most of them are not similar as
per gender, age, geographical location, parent’s
income etc. Students with similar characteristics can
be grouped and can be yielded for definable
segments. Lewis and Smith observed that every
college and university has a mission but very few
fully identify who they serve [3].
Customers of educational services are classified as
Internal customers; students, staff and management
and External customers such as parents, other
schools and colleges, alumni and community [4].
The institute searching process is a long one.
McDonough (2004) stated that the
transition/searching process begins during the
middle school years. Students begin to develop
college awareness and ideas of academic aspirations.
During 10th (SSC) and 12th (HSC) students began
looking for schools that meet their needs socially
and academically (McDonough 2004). After
searching internal sources, if the student realizes that
the information gathered is not enough to base on
and decide, external sources of information are
considered. People Factor such as; Parents, Brother
& Sisters, Relatives, Friends/Peer, Current & Post
students of institute, previous School/Coaching
Teachers, Staff and Management People of Institute,
act as a reference group for the pre-students
(prospective students) to take their decision on
institute selection. Reference Group is the group to
which the individual relates or aspires to relate
himself or herself psychologically and a source for
framing his or her experiences, perceptions,
cognition, and ideas of self. Robert K. Merton
hypothesized that individuals compare themselves
with reference groups of people who occupy the
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social role to which the individual aspires [5]. There
are several people who influence a student’s institute
decision, but their degree of impact on students
varies from school to school [6].
II. PEOPLE FACTOR OF SERVICE MIX
The tradition four Ps marketing approaches work
well for goods but additional elements require
attention in service business; People, Physical
Evidence and Process. Because most services are
provided by the people and experienced by the
people by their motivation and behavioural
characteristics, they make a huge difference in
customer satisfaction. This is the main principle of
service management; ‘By the people for the people’.
Parents: The home setting is a particularly rich and
ongoing source of information for college-educated
families [8]. The collision between the worlds of
institute and of home and family must be understood
by institutions as lower-income students become
more prevalent [9]. Many studies have connected
parent support and encouragement to institute plans
[10]. Parents are main source of financial aspects;
however, their support is determined by the
education level. When parents lack firsthand
“institute knowledge” and have limited financial and
social resources, they consequently have a lessened
capacity to facilitate institute planning [11].
According to Hossler, Schmit and Vesper (1999),
parental support was a key factor in influencing
students' aspirations to go onto college. Typically,
students whose parents did not attend
college/institute graduation find it more difficult to
address the issues related to choose, chances, and
application needs when it comes to college.
Typically, these students begin thinking about
institute much later than do students who have
parents and family members who have attended
higher education institutions.
Brothers & Sisters: When parents are not educated
or unknown about the institutes, the supporting
information is provided by the siblings. However,
graduate elder siblings or undergoing graduate
siblings have a major role in the decision of
selection. In rural area where the parents are
uneducated and are unable to provide information,
elder siblings play a vital role even; they become a
financial source for the pre-students if they are
employed.
Relatives: Relatives are contacted, particularly those
are residing in urban area, as they supposed to have
more knowledge on the institutes and programs.
Students contact their relatives for getting
information on cost involved in the related education
and for knowing number of colleges/institutes
available in the urban area and compare them with
the budget.
Friends / Peer: If students are exposed to other
individuals such as friends, who have studied in that
institute, students will often rely on those individual
for their valuable guidance on campus life,
infrastructure, teaching methodology, examination
pattern etc. A peer group of friends, is both a social
group and a primary group of people who have
similar interests, age, background, or social status.
They prefer to talk about school and their careers
with their parents and other interpersonal
relationships with their peers [12]. Peer influence is
dependent upon variables of friendship closeness,
high school track placement, race, and gender
composition of the relationship [13]. Intuition
reinforces the finding that peers who are
academically-oriented are an asset for career
aspirations [14]. Peer influence for these youths
appears to be the most influential factor in the
decision about institute [15]. But if those peer effects
are asymmetric so that students at different levels of
behaviour or characteristics are influenced
differently by their interaction with others, then peer
effects introduce an issue of economic efficiency,
too. Taylor (1992) is of the belief that friends' advice
is the major source of information influencing
students' choice of tertiary educational institutions.
School / Coaching teacher: Students do report the
desire for a quality high school counsellor who
might guide them through a process that seems
daunting, complicated and time-consuming [16].
School counsellor can increase the confidence of
families who may otherwise shy away from the
institute. Parents' discussions with counsellors are a
significant step toward in making institute decision,
which highlights the benefits of cultivating early
positive parent-counsellor relationships [17].
Students who do not have family members who have
attended institute often look towards the school as
their main support. The school creates the
environment closest to the institute setting for these
students. School and coaching teachers act as a
career advisor.
Staff of Institute: While there are undoubtedly
numerous factors that influence to enter the technical
education, the relationships built during formal and
informal counselling exercises adopted by the
institute can affect personal decisions. Counselling
by institute staff is necessary for students when
preparing for institute, as they are the measures of
service delivery. "We know that counsellors
influence students' aspirations, plans, enrolments,
and financial aid knowledge. Meeting frequently
with a counsellor increases a student's chance of
enrolling in a four-year institute, and if students,
parents, and counsellors work together and
communicate clearly, students' chances of enrolling
in college significantly increase". An institution's
own members of staff, through telephone
conversations and email correspondences to
prospective students, also play a major role in
influencing student choice decision.
Management of Institute: Management people are
the in-direct source of influencers. These people are
the main service providers in the education services.
Here, pre-students may not approach management
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people, however, pre-students have a perceived
value or an image for the management and brand of
the institute. Management people communicate their
culture, style and brand through their publications,
sponsored programs, paid and non-paid sources of
advertisements and social events. Pasternak (2005)
pointed out that the information given by the
management through institution's own printed
materials is also very influential in student choice
process. Despite numerous sources of information,
there is still a general lack of adequate information
for prospective students and their parents to make
meaningful comparisons among universities offering
the same or similar academic program, due to poor
and less informative and promotional materials
designed by the managements of educational
institutions.
Current-students (Prospective Students): Current-
students are the real experience holder of the service
which is offered by the institute as they are currently
in touch with the service and facilities of the institute.
They are the real word of mouth for the institute as
well as for the pre-students. But, their positive
message delivered to the pre-student will depend on
the type of experience they are receiving. However,
families reveal a growing trend in which current-
students commonly identify parental encouragement
as a primary reason for deciding selection of institute
[18]. Pre-student approaches current-students to
update recent information regarding the institute as
all other resources may provide old information
regarding the institute. Again, they may verify the
information provided by the other resources with the
current-students. Pre-students often associate
themselves with other individuals who have
experienced the same cultural and social experiences
and compare their institute going behaviours with
those who are attending institute now.
Alumni (Post-Students): Alumni are the finished
product of the educational institutes. They had
experienced a service and are in the perfect position
to tell the value of that service in the present market.
Alumni share common characteristics and interest
with the pre-students. Pre-students take information
from the Alumni for the future scope and value of
educational program provided by the institute.
However, opinion and the information provided may
be different from alumni to alumni depending on the
services and the level of satisfaction the alumni
received from institute.
Pre-Student themselves: Pre-students take their
decision mostly after collecting all information from
all available sources and compares them with their
personal factors. Most pre-students after collecting
primary information from school teachers, friends,
family prefer to visit directly to the concerned
institute to verify physical evidence. They interact
with administrative staff as well as faculty of the
institute on academic or financial aspects. Pre-
students look for institute settings that are consistent
with their own environment and culture. Most of
time, pre-student himself is not capable of taking
decision without making a contact with the network
of information sources. They make coalition, a
temporary alliance to get this information. Coalition
is defined as a group of an interacting group of
individuals, deliberately constructed, independent of
the formal structure, lacking its own internal formal
structure, consisting of mutually perceived
membership, issue oriented, focused on a goal or
goals external to the coalition and requiring
concerted member action.
Conceptual Model – Segmentation Vs Service
Mix:
Institute Influencer
Search for need Information Search
Evaluation of
Alternatives
Selection
for Institute
Satisfaction
Students Related Influencer
Pre-Student (Self)
Parents
Brothers & Sisters
Relatives
Friends
Management
Staff
Current-Students
Post-Students
Previous
School/ Coaching Influencer
School Teachers
Coaching Teachers
Reference Group
Prospective Students (Pre-students)
Geographical Segmentation
Demographic Segmentation
Conceptual Model: Segmentation Vs People Mix
Fig. 1: Conceptual Model adopted and modified
from Riley - A buyer’s decision-making process,
2012
III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The objective of this research was to find out
people’s influence, which is a referred group for a
student, on the geographic and demographic
characteristics in selection of technical educational
institute for a student. A qualitative research
through a survey was made. It comprised of a
structured questionnaire sent through e-mail to the
current-students enrolled and passed-out students
(alumni) belonging to the technical institutes
affiliated to North Maharashtra University. Sample
size (n) was calculated at 95% Confidence Level for
which Standard Normal Variate (Z) is 1.96 & at
Standard Error (e) of 0.03 by
n=Z2
(p)(1-p)/e2
where n = Sample Size to be used
for this study, N = unknown population, p =
Estimated Portion of Population N. For p = 90%, ‘n’
comes out to be 553. However, sample size of 649
was selected by quota sampling from technical
institutes offering different programs in engineering,
pharmacy and management & different students
(Current as well Post-students) based on their
location of native place, gender, father’s
qualification, occupation and income and technical
educational program. The questionnaire comprised
of geographic and demographic factors of students
with questions measuring influencers impact on the
selection of technical institute on a scale ranging
from 0 to 5, where value zero, was no influence at
all and value five, was most influence. The
characteristics of the sample is described as below;
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By Gender
Male: 443; Female: 206
By Father’s Occupation Sector
Education Sector: 111;
Non-Educational Sector: 538
By Parent’s Income
Below 1 lac: 388; 1-3 lacs: 101;
3-6 lacs:125; Above 6 lacs: 35
By Technical Educational Program
Engineering: 480; Pharmacy: 112;
Management: 57
By Native Place
District: 159; Taluka: 277; Village:
213
By Institute’s location from Native Place
0 Km:116 0-50 Kms:157
50-100 Kms:193 100-200 Kms:121
Above 200 Kms:62
Hypothesis
H1: Geographic & Demographic factors are
associated with the People mix (influencers) for
selecting technical educational institutes.
IV. DATA INTERPRETATION AND
FINDINGS
Effect of gender on the influencers -
(Table 1: Chi-square Test for Association performed with
Minitab17: Gender Vs Impact of Influencers; Mean of responses
received for the influencers gender-wise Figures in bold are
significant at 0.05. (p <0.05; confidence level 95%)
Table 1 shows the gender-wise responses of the
students on influencers’ impact in the selection of
technical educational institute. The calculated chi-
square value for contingency table for Male and
Female and responses on the influencer ‘Parents’ is
p=0.023 which is significant at 0.05 i.e. p is <0.05.
Based on this chi–square test we accept H1 and can
conclude that there is difference between male and
female in accepting ‘Parents’ as an influencer in
selecting technical educational institute. Female
responses (Mean= 6.1) are higher that the male
responses (Mean= 5.7) which suggest that female
students have more impact of ‘Parents’ influencers
on selecting technical educational institutes than
male students. Similarly, we can say that female
students have more impact of ‘Management People’
and ‘Siblings’ influencers on selecting technical
educational institutes than male students.
However, based on chi-square test, there is no
difference in gender (male & female) on the impact
of ‘Relatives’, ‘Peer/friends’, ‘Current-students’,
‘Alumni’, ‘Previous teachers’, Institute Staff’ and
‘Pre-students themselves’ where p value is >0.05.
We reject H1 for this cases.
Female students have impact of all influences
greater than the male students on their decision of
selection for technical educational institute.
Effect of Native Place on Influencers -
Table 2 shows the responses based on
students’ native place on influencers’ impact in the
selection of technical educational institute. The
calculated chi-square value for contingency table for
native place -District, Taluka, Village and responses
on the ‘Siblings’ influencer is p=0.022 which is
significant at 0.05 i.e. p is <0.05. Based on this chi–
square test we accept H1 and can conclude that there
is difference between students residing in District,
Taluka, Village in accepting ‘Siblings’ as an
influencer for selection of technical educational
institute. Taluka & Village students’ responses
(Mean= 3.4 & 3.3) are higher that the District
students’ responses (Mean= 2.7) which suggest that
Taluka & Village students have more impact of
‘Siblings’ influencers on selecting technical
educational institutes than District students.
Similarly, we can say that there is difference in
District, Taluka and Village students in accepting
impact of influencers; ‘Peer/Friends’, ‘Current-
students’ ‘Previous teachers’ and ‘Pre-students
themselves’ with p=0.007, p=0.006, p=0.019 and
p=0.039 respectively, which is significant at 0.05 as
p<0.05. However, based on chi-square test, there is
no difference in District, Taluka, Village students on
the impact of ‘Parents’, ‘Relatives’, ‘Alumni’,
Institute Staff’ and ‘Management People’ where p
value is >0.05. We reject H1 for this cases.
(Table 2: Chi-square Test for Association performed with
Minitab17: Native Place Vs Impact of Influencers; Mean of
responses received for the influencers based on native place
Figures in bold are significant at 0.05. (p <0.05; confidence level
95%)
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Effect of Parents Occupation Sector on Influencers
-
Table 3 shows the responses based on parents’
occupation sector on influencers’ impact in the
selection of technical educational institute. The
calculated chi-square value for contingency table for
parents belonging to education sector and non-
educational sector and responses on the all
influencers is >0.05. Based on chi–square test we
reject H1 and can conclude that there is no
difference between students whose parents
belonging to education sector and non-educational
sector in accepting the impact of all influencers for
selection of technical educational institute.
(Table 3: Chi-square Test for Association
performed with Minitab17: Parents Occupation
Sector Vs Impact of Influencers; Mean of responses
received for the influencers based on students’
parent occupation sector)
Effect of Parents Income on Influencers -
(Table 4: Chi-square Test for Association performed
with Minitab17: Parents income Vs Impact of
Influencers; Mean of responses received for the
influencers based on students’ parents’ income)
Table 4 shows the responses based on parents’
incomes on influencers’ impact in the selection of
technical educational institute. The calculated chi-
square value for contingency table for parents’
income group on the all influencers is >0.05 for all
groups of income. Based on chi–square test we
reject H1.and can conclude that there is no
difference between students whose parents’ income
belonging to various income groups in accepting the
impact of all influencers for selection of technical
educational institute.
Effect of Technical Program on Influencers –
Table 5 shows the responses based on technical
program in which the students are admitted with the
impact of influencers in the selection of technical
educational institute. The calculated chi-square value
for contingency table for technical program in which
the students are admitted and responses on the
‘Siblings’ influencer is p=0.022 which is significant
at 0.05 i.e. p is <0.05. Based on this chi–square test
we accept H1 and can conclude that there is
difference between students admitted in various
technical programs; engineering, management and
pharmacy in accepting ‘Siblings’ as an influencer for
selection of technical educational institute.
Responses of students admitted in Management and
Pharmacy are (Mean= 3.8 & 3.2) are higher that the
responses of students admitted in engineering
(Mean= 2.8) which suggest that management and
pharmacy students have more impact of ‘Siblings’
influencers on
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selecting technical educational institutes than
engineering students. Similarly, we can say that
there is difference in engineering, management and
pharmacy students in accepting impact of
influencers; ‘Relatives’, ‘Alumni’ ‘Institute Staff’,
‘Management People and ‘Pre-students themselves’
with p=0.024, p=0.006, p=0.005, p=0.002 and
p=0.017 respectively, which is significant at 0.05 as
p<0.05.
However, based on chi-square test, there is no
difference between the students admitted in
engineering, management and pharmacy on the
impact of ‘Parents’ (p=0.178), ‘Peer/Friends’
(p=0.083), ‘Current-students’ (p=0.136) and
‘Previous teachers’ (p=0.557) where p value is >0.05.
We reject H1 for this cases.
(Table 5: Chi-square Test for Association performed
with Minitab17: Choice of technical Program Vs
Impact of Influencers; Mean of responses received
for the influencers based on admitted technical
program Figures in bold are significant at 0.05. (p
<0.05; confidence level 95%)
Effect of distance of institute from native place on
Influencers –
Table 6 shows the responses based on distance of
institute from students’ native place with the impact
of influencers in the selection of technical
educational institute. The calculated chi-square value
for contingency table for the distance of institute
from students’ native place and responses on the
‘Siblings’ influencer is p=0.043 which is significant
at 0.05 i.e. p is <0.05. Based on this chi–square test
we accept H1 and can conclude that there is
difference between students whose differ in distance
of the institute from their native place in accepting
‘Siblings’ as an influencer for selection of technical
educational institute. Responses of students who
study in local institutes, institutes placed in between
0-50 kms with Mean= 2.3 & 2, respectively, are
higher than the responses of students admitted in the
institutes placed >50 kms away from native place.
This reflects that the students studying in the
institutes which is within 50 kms from their native
place have more impact of ‘Siblings’ influencers on
selecting technical educational institutes than
engineering students.
(Table 6: Chi-square Test for Association performed
with Minitab17: distance of institute from native
place Vs Impact of Influencers; Mean of responses
received for the influencers based on native place
Figures in bold are significant at 0.05. (p <0.05;
confidence level 95%)
Similarly, we can say that ‘Previous teachers’,
‘Institute staff’, ‘Management People and ‘Pre-
students themselves’ with p=0.017, p=0.012,
p=0.014, and p=0.038 respectively, which is
significant at 0.05 as p<0.05, have more impact on
the students who differs in the distance of their
institute from their native place in selecting technical
educational institute.
However, based on chi-square test, there is no
difference between the students who varies in the
distance of institute and native place on the impact
of ‘Parents’ (p=0.427), ‘Relatives’ (p=0.762),
‘Peer/Friends’ (p=0.184), ‘Current-students’
(p=0.673), and ‘Alumni’ (p=0.376), where p value
is >0.05. We reject H1 for this cases.
V. SUMMARY AND MARKETING
STRATEGIES
• It is found that female students, search and
analyse all sources of primary information available
through promotional activities. Institute website,
social networking sites, face-to-face communication,
education fairs, institute’s print material,
sponsorship and publicity programs have influenced
them in selecting institute of TE of their choice. This
is may be for, backing-up their decision and to
convince their parents and family for the decision
which is essential in case of female.
• It is surprising that, instead of less
infrastructural facilities, rural students (belonging to
village) are keen to search and gather information
from institute websites and social networking sites.
Villages students have considered all sources of
promotion mix as well as they are influenced from
these sources.
• Management students are influenced by all
the promotional activities of institute ahead of
engineering and pharmacy students. Engineering
students are less influenced by the promotional mix,
this means that they are searching new sources.
• Institutes who are placed in villages are
concentrating only on social networking. They are
lagging in other promotional mix. Institutes placed
in urban are strong in their publicity program than
the others. Institute those who are placed in urban
area are strong in face-to-face interactions, website
and print materials.
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It is important to know institute’s strongest
influencers, so that the institute can create a
communication strategy that incorporates them into
the outreach process. It seems from above survey
that ‘Parents’ as an influencer is having an impact on
gender. Female students are more likely to consider
parents’ decision than male students in selecting
their technical educational institute. Siblings of
students belonging Village and Taluka place suggest
them in selecting technical programs and selecting
an institute based on the distance of the institute
from their native place. Relatives of students are also
helpful in selecting type technical program. Alumni
and Friends/Peer of students who belongs to village
and taluka also have an influence on selection.
Institutes must sure that it has an appropriate
communication channels set up with the parents,
siblings, relatives and friends through education
exhibitions, print publications, social media
involvement, digital advertisement, career
counselling programs. Alumni and Current-student’s
relationship are the assets without cost for the
institutes in term of ‘word of mouth’ because their
communication is based on true experience of the
service. Social media (engagement through
Facebook pages, LinkedIn) is an important part of
alumni, current-students and pre-students’
engagement. It’s a means to stay connected for long
way and forever. Institutes’ staff can share institute’s
strategic value messages when they have
conversations with prospective students and alumni.
Even staff can visit schools and colleges for
delivering seminars on career counselling, technical
educational awareness. They can further develop
relationships with the school teachers. Current-
students should be provided with valued based
services like supporting, operating and extension
activities. Current-students and alumni are the real
assets for the institutes without cost. Effective
bonding with them will create a free ‘word of
mouth’ for the institutes.
VI.CONCLUSION
Marketing is most effective when its
message is tailored to the audience the institute
wants to reach. This method of refining specific
groups with a message that is clear and useful to the
recipients is called targeted marketing by
segmentation. Knowing students based on their
geographic & demographic factors can be a
powerful strategy for developing technical institutes
that can mobilize a management of institute to
transform. By determining these targeted audiences,
institute can predict the desired behaviour. It
provides a point of convergence for service
providers, service receivers and planners. It is the
strategic rearrangement of services, governance and
communications which improves staff and
management people’s morale and reputation of the
institutes by increased enrolments.
In educational services, ‘People Mix’ plays a vital
role as ‘People’ here are the service providers
(management people, staff) as well as service
receivers (students). In today’s scenario where
technical education is gaining it’s important due to
its vital contribution towards economic growth of
the country, it is important for the technical institutes
to whom to serve and when, where and how? At the
same time, institutes should know what sources
students and the influencers are using to search
institutes. Without guidance from a friend, teacher or
a family member, many students fear to take
decision at their own, even if they decide to take at
their own, they end up with the same setting.
There should not be just links and clicks, institute
must look for relationship with these influencers.
Relationship building though, is a toughest job, as
meeting people face to face and having a cup of
coffee with them might be tougher, but with today’s
technology sources the world might be not enough to
build relationship. The institutes must identify the
tools to connect and re-connect the influencers. All
influencers are needed to work to explore all
possible avenues towards the growth and
development of technical education by motivating
the prospective students towards technical education.
However, the institutes those who will act a
lubricant for relationships will only survive, after all
‘for the people by the people’ cannot run without
bonds and relationships.
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