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National Policy on Education, UNESCO, Industry-Academia Collborations, Skills and Needs of industries, Skill Development, Roll of Government Higher & Technical Education, UGC, AICTE, National level Institutes of Higher Learning, IIMs, IITs, Polytechnic Institutes, ITIs, Universities, Colleges, Industries.
Abstract
This comprehensive paper deals with the efforts made, recent trends in, and critical issues pertaining to Industry-Academia Collborations in India with special reference to National Education Policy (NPE) 1968, National Education Policy (NEP) 1986, Programme of Action (POA) 1992, and the goals of education laid down for India in the Constitution of India.
This paper argues that there is a great need for Industry-Academia partnership. Collaboration between academia and industry has been rather restricted in India, in the past, possibly because of differences in values and attitudes, lack of appreciation of each other's abilities, skills and needs, and the absence of economic compulsions. It was so in the past and will be felt in future also. The students of Higher Education are not getting desired practical benefits of education. This is equally applicable to the students of technical education also.
This paper elaborately discusses on the emerging trends in Industry and Academia Collaboration and efforts made and role being played by/on the part of all concerned. This paper suggests various modes, modalities, methods of the Industry and Academia Interaction.
1.0 Introduction
The impact of globalization on Indian Economy, emergence of the free market, formation of international trading blocs, development of new technologies with low half-life periods, the advent of Information Technology and Bio-Technology and the necessity of improving quality to meet the requirements of international markets, have greatly affected business, and forced industry to look for support from academia. On the other hand, the Government, policy makers, educationist, etc., have realized that of there is an alarming situation and truth of consistently increasing unstoppable number of unskilled and unemployed youth generations due to the existing pattern of education, and hence, planned efforts are essentially required to make the existing education more meaningful for skill development to make the educated youth self-employed by improving their employability. The resultant situation was/is that during the last four decades there have been conscious efforts in India to promote cooperation between Academia and Industry. However, only marginal success has...