INITIATIVE IN HIGHER EDUCATION SKILL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE IN HIGHER EDUCATION DR. DIPAK KR. KAR PRINCIPAL ASUTOSH COLLEGE 92, Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Road Kolkata , West Bengal, India PIN - 700 026 E-mail:mail@asutoshcollege.in Web : www.asutoshcollege.in Office: +91 (033) 2455 4504, 2454 2371 Fax +91 (033) 2486 3006 Mobile : +91 9433913839 Presented By Prof. Gautam Mahapatra Associated Professor in Comp. Sc., Head, Dept. of Comp. Sc. (PG & UG Section), Asutosh College Dr. Madhusudan Banerjee Associated Professor in Industrial Chemistry, Coordinator, B.Voc. & Community College Scheme, Asutosh College UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi

UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi Objective ► Education makes human able to visualize the universe like a mirror. ► School education is essential like our nutrients & oxygen, but higher education should be more objective. ► Higher education policy is to be framed in a country keeping in mind The demand of the nation  The direction of progress of human civilization The global socio-economic changes with time The optimum utilization of natural resources To acquire knowledge for new inventions and discoveries. UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi

UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi Present Status ►‘Primary education for all’ campaign has gained momentum and free education at secondary and higher secondary level is being practiced for several decades - these are the encouraging features of our society. ► Recent provision of Right to Education (RTE) Act for free and compulsory education to children will strengthen the process. ► But the education in general courses at graduate and post-graduate level is aimless in our system without any definite goal for the taught vis-à-vis the nation. ► More attention is needed for education policy to be reformed to make higher education in general courses meaningful with a goal. UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi

Societal Requirements ►Though the basic purpose of education is to enlighten the society with all the facts and figures around us, but it must also cater to the needs of the society. ► Education in general courses should not always be oriented to the generation of teachers/secretaries/officers/clerks only, must be aimed also in designing the persons for other spheres. ► The society demands one, but the institutes produce another, making the process less fruitful. UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi

UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi ► The course curriculum needs to be more skill oriented at the higher education level keeping in mind the societal requirements. ► The vast human resource engaged in education of general courses at graduate level is actually being transformed mostly into useless ‘knowledge-bin’, not utilized for national growth. ►Establishment of Community College / Extension of potential departments of the existing college for the purpose may be explored. ► In everyday life we are deficient of professionals whom we actually need, though the society is being ornamented with graduates, post-graduates and even doctorates. UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi

UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi 1991 Establishment of Asutosh College Training Center (ACTC / Annex Building) in the eve of Platinum Jubilee Year Celebration 1992 DOEACC approved Computer Training at ACTC Building (PPP Model) 1994 CU Approved 3-Yrs. B. Sc. (Voc.) Course on Industrial Fish and Fisheries under the Dept of Zoology UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi

UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi 1996 Establishment of the Dept of Computer Science with the CU Approved 3-Years B.Sc. (Gen.) Course on Computer Science 2001 CU Approved 3-Yrs. B. Sc. (Hon.) Course on Computer Science 2002 Establishment of BBA Dept and introduction of CU Approved 3-Yrs. BBA(Hon.) Course UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi

UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi 2003 CU affiliated 3Yrs B.A. Degree Courses: Communicative English (Voc./Major) Journalism and Mass Communications (Hons.) 2010 WBSCTE Approved Diploma course on Safety Engineering and Management (Min. Qualification: B.E. / B.Tech. / B.Sc.(Hons. / Gen.) / Diploma Engg. / Tech.) Diploma and Certificate course on Export- Import Management (PPP Model) UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi

UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi 2013 UGC Approved Add-on Courses : (1) Hospital Waste Disposal Management, (2) Industrial Chemistry, and (3) Travel & Tourism 2014 UGC Approved Community College Scheme for Diploma and Advanced Diploma Courses on (1) Software Development, (2) Mobile Communication UGC Approved and CU affiliated 3Yrs B. Voc. Degree Courses on (1) Software Development, (2) Industrial Aquaculture and Fisheries UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi

UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi Major Challenges ► Motivations ►Socio-Economic Status ►Recognition ►Integrations / Interdisciplinary ►Availability Formal Expertise ►Infrastructure UGC & AICTE Skill Development Workshop 2014, New Delhi

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