“Students please take down the notes…. blah blah blah blah…… never ending blah….” This is how classes are conducted in a very very famous and reputed private engineering college in Kerala. Students are forced to take down notes, as if it were a primary school. Notes have to be submitted on a monthly basis to be verified by the teacher. There are weekly assignments for students. Students are not allowed to write the...

Kerala holding the credit of 100% literacy is famous for its number of engineers & professionals. Engineering education has become a matter of business now a days.We are going to see the admission procedure of another batch.So let us review the present situation of our state in the same. Admissions to private self-financing colleges has been always a severe problem to the government. Especially this government has been always...

In the US, Universities  are basically the research centers for various corporations. Arts and humanities departments may be supported by the government funding and the fees collected by the students. However, once you move on to Science, Math, Engineering and Technology schools, revenue from corporations is a major source of income for the university. As I have mentioned, internships play a huge role in this where the students...

A friend of mine said I am proposing to turn education into a consumer product without values.  But, a free market does not do away with values. A person cannot achieve success in any avenue, whether it is business or in a corporate environment, without the core personal values. But in the current system it develops neither any values nor competence. If a student that comes out of a university now with a certificate that  lack...

  People cry that education in India has become a business. The way it is, I agree that the current system is far from ideal. But what is wrong is not that the avenue has become a business, but that it is a business where it is rigged against the consumers. It is a business, which should be regulated by the forces of supply and demand rather than government interference. Let me explain. The college managements should be able...

Royal Enfield Taurus the only diesel engine model of Royal Enfield got a new lease of life when a group of Mechanical Engineeering students from the Lourdes Matha College of Science and Technology designed and developed a Tweak Diesel motorbike making it turbocharged. The quartet behind the project were .Ganesh Nair,  B.S.Harkrishnan, K.R.Rajeev and K.Shinju ho developed this bike as  part of the final year project work. “Turbocharger...

What’s Happening To This World Last Week Rashid asked me a question “Why????????? Whoever you talk to, whomever you contact, in whichever part of this world, all they have to say is that “life is just moving on; nothing special; and yea, it’s boring!!” – What’s happening to this world?? Now I have an answer for this. This problem has mainly two reasons. The first one I see is that usually people ask...