siliconindia | | July 20164"When a student is ready, the teacher will appear" is a saying that has been alternatively attributing to Gautama Buddha and Theosophists. But in Indian education system, it seems like things are not happening in Buddha's or Theosophists' way. An acute shortage of faculty members is hampering the technical education. Private engineering colleges across the country are pulling on with half the teaching strength it requires. Premier national institutes are also not in a better place. The average faculty shortage in IITs is 32 percent, while it is 31 percent in IIITs, 22 percent at IIMs and 25 percent in NITs. Various reports show that only six out of 16 IITs have met the guideline of 10:1 student to faculty ratio. Surprisingly, all the six are among the eight new IITs started in 2008. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Lack of teachers will lead to lack of attention on the students and an eventual dilution in the overall quality of education. Even when the country's education leaders talk volumes about enhancing the research activities to gain global reputation, little is often done towards creating a faculty pool on the ground level. Therefore, we can say, Indian engineering education is clearly at a crossroad where on one side, there is a proliferation of engineering colleges, while on the other there is sheer lack of quality teachers.Striving for a better future, we at SiliconIndia Education has released the latest edition of 'Top 100 Engineering Colleges,' an exercise that we have been conducting since past six years. On the cover, we have featured Sandip Foundation, an institute that has been producing innovative professionals who can drive towards nation's growth. Sarath ShyamAssistant Managing Editoredu_editor@siliconindia.comTeaching without TeachersEditorialsiliconindia Vol 5 Issue 5 SE - July 2016 Education Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Editor-in-Chief Pradeep Shankar Managing Editor Sandeep SenAssistant Managing Editor Sarath Syam Editorial Team Dikila Bhutia Jennifer Fatogun Sneha Choudhury Amrutha Ram GM- Sales & Marketing Jaya Arora Sales Team Jyoti Sharma Akash Vikas Vineeta Advertising Queries No 501 & 502 -5th floor Vishal Tower, Janakapuri District Center Janakapuri, New Delhi- 110058 T: 011 45992100 Editorial queries edu_editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit www.siliconindia.com/magazine-in or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com. Cover price is Rs 100 per issue.Printed & published by Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of siliconMedia technologies Pvt Ltd. No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugheshpalya, Bangalore-560017 and Printed at Precision Fototype Service, # 13, Sathyanarayana Temple Street, Halsuru, Bangalore 560008 Editor Pradeep ShankarCopyright © 2015 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.com Visualiser ManjunathDelhi NCRJaya AroraBranch ManagerCirculation Manager Magendran PerumalSr. Visualiser Ashok Kumar
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