India produce over 16 lacs of engineers annually in various
core, basic and specialized engineering courses. This number is even
much more when other professional courses; like agriculture and science
related; are included. To cater the huge pool of pursuant, lacs of faculties
are involved in this knowledge industry. The total number of students and
faculties in technical institutes are more than total enrolments of all the
graduating disciplines of some of the developed countries of the
Europe. This pool of talents is to be considered as technical or
high skilled professionals, which significantly contributes as one of the
main drivers of economical and technological developmental activities of a
country. Countries which have focused on technological developments and
nurtured the culture of technical education, have grown leaps and bounds in all
areas of human development index, even through all odds. Japan, South Korea,
Germany, France, Israel, Singapore are some of the examples. It is a fact that
the best ideas and there forth supergiant organisations are the brainchild
conceived and incepted in university laboratories. However, India, even though
some growth has been noticed in recent years, lacks far behind in the developmental
journey. In spite of having one of the largest bunch of technical and
non-technical professionals, India is dependent on others for technology except
few marvellous achievements. This issue has
multi-faceted views, opinions and beliefs. But, the answer is more or less
skewed to paralysed education structure. By the way, whatever is the reason,
more important is to focus on the solutions. In this rapidly changing
technological era, one can’t rely on the long term policies and wait for years
to get benefits of policy. A comparatively short term solutions with sure
shots are inevitable, especially for India, where employment creators are not
able to offer work to masses, developmental policies are framed based on
political advantages and activities are badly governed (Some exceptions may be
there).
One of the solution to boost the employment and innovation
based incubations to harness multi-faceted developments, the new age education
model can be useful. The model is called Studentprenuership. In this model,
faculties are at centre stage and mentor the group of students. The group of
faculties and students work together for projects/ products/ideas/solutions
from its conceptual state to end use level. The crux is to learn
‘think-analyse-build-market-sale’ strategy at the university itself. Students
will be familiarised with the entire project development cycle starting from
conceptualisation of innovative ideas, products, and solutions to technical
feasibility evaluation, management of seed funds/capitals, final product,
finding marketplace and sales & support. The project work can be taken up
by the next batch of student, if it could not been completed by the previous
group. This type of concurrent education environment will built mental
infrastructure, immense confidence, and ready platform for siblings to gear up
such activities.
Such Studentprenuership oriented education will provide
hands on experience starting from the concept- to- product, and demonstrate the
shear will and zeal required to build a platform for a venture. This model will
promote technical, managerial, financial and administrative skills and aptitude
amongst students and faculties as well. If the Studentprenuership concept is
made compulsory at the institute/university level, with government assistance
and involvement of faculties, it has the capacity to create and promote new
ventures at exponential rate. The vision
for startup india and make in india would be achieved quickly where employee
become employers for many.
