India Gets Entry Into Elite Club Of Technical Studies

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India is building on its education advantage. Riding on the excellence of its top-notch engineering institutes and holding out the prospect of flooding the world with qualified engineers, India has taken a big leap forward in bringing its next rung of engineering colleges up to speed.
India is using its advantage in education. Riding on the excellence of its engineering institutions of high caliber and tends the possibility of flooding the world with qualified engineers, India has taken a big step forward with its next level of speed engineering schools.
In a move that, combined with diplomacy, education, India was made last week a provisional member of the Washington Accord, an umbrella organization of 10 members that determines the overall standards of engineering education. The US-India included as a temporary member for two years, after which it will become a full member. India's candidature was proposed by Britain, Australia and Canada, with a recommendation by the generous American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
What does this mean for India? Well, it means Indian engineering degrees undergraduate ...
... finally given the "equivalence" in all member countries, which will be recognized as engineering degrees of high international standard. For now, only the elite IIT or BITS Pilani institutes such requirements. But after that there is a huge drop at a higher level, according to sources.
India had asked to join in 2005, but the agreement was approved by a whisker. This year, it will use diplomatic capital in place to ensure the worldwide group.
India has been pursuing membership of the accord to substantially improve the quality of its second and third rung engineering colleges. In the next two years, the Indian nodal agency, in this case the AICTE, will work with teams from member countries to update assessments and quality of faculty and courses in

Indian engineering institutes to bring them up to international standards.

In fact, during a recent visit by ASEE to India, the president of the American body went on record to say that engineering education by and large in India does not meet global market requirements both in quantity and quality. US education presently generates 70,000 engineers every year, down from 85,000 in the 1980s. The Indian problem is that while Indian engineers have a better theoretical grounding than many other countries, their applications knowledge or abilities to work in cross-cultural ambience is poor. The Washington Accord currently has 10 members — Australia, Canada, Ireland, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK and USA.

Until this year, provisional members included Germany, Malaysia, South Korea and Taiwan. However, China, the other country churning out engineers, is not yet a member.
The accord, set up in 1989, "is an agreement between the bodies responsible for accrediting professional engineering degree programmes in each of the signatory countries".

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