More than 7,200 BTech students have dropped out of the IITs in the last five years, Economic Times reports, citing government data. Experts attribute the high attrition rate to academic pressures and difficulty adjusting to the English medium, among other reasons.
The HRD ministry has approved an exit option for academically weak students wherein they can switch from the four-year BTech to a three-year BSc after the second semester. The Centre has also asked all 23 IITs to set up wellness centres and engage professional counsellors to help students cope with the high-pressure environment.
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Govindraj Ethiraj – Note To Indian Parents Over 2,400 students dropped out of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the last 2 years. Of this, 782 students were from IIT Delhi alone. This shocking number merits further investigation. But a few things are clear. 1. Parents should stop pushing their children into engineering. Or get them career-counselled to open their minds to alternatives. #2. I increasingly see engineers shift to humanities and work with professions like ours – journalism & research. So even if they finish the degree, they are moving to non-engineering careers. 3. There is nothing wrong in the engineering degree in itself but everything wrong in the `this is the ultimate life jackpot’ approach to securing a seat. 4. Children’s precious years’ are spent gearing up for engineering degrees when they could be preparing for the career they really want to opt for. 5. If this is the number of students dropping out for IITs, what must it be for the rest ? Engineering colleges are lying half-empty across the country. 6. Nothing lasts for ever. The 25-30 year `bull-run’ for engineering seats is over. And let me assure you the Government can’t help here.
Aditya Vivek – In news today: “IITs may allow weaker students to opt-out in 3 years with a BSc degree” They say you can never really estimate the ruthlessness of the battlefield unless you are present there. I would just ask the members of the IIT council to become students again and go through the UG/PG program, sit in the classrooms, live in the hostels, and write the exams, to understand the root cause, rather than misdirect schemes like this. 2461 students dropped out of IITs in the last couple of years, most of them because of their poor academic scores, one of the reasons why this plan was felt essential. This scheme is pretty much an escape from solving the real problem that actually creates these, “Weaker Students”, the system itself, right from selection, curriculum, examination pattern, and evaluation. (Not to mention the society’s role in creating false expectations and over glorification of IITs) It’s good to have a flexible system where ALL students can pursue the courses they like or opt for a different degree based on feasibility. The real problem in this debate comes with the tag, “Weaker Students”. Have flexible schemes, but don’t corner and tag students, those whom YOU have failed. What do you think of this?
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