1. Aptitude, Reasoning, Personality development & English compulsorily needed for Placements and Jobs:
Each year engineering course have 10 subjects or more. We go through Theory, Practical, Viva, Lab works, External, Internal, Majors, Minors, assignment, project, thesis etc. We learn engineering with industrial training, industrial visits, workshops, learning different software.
But at the time of placement, everyone wants Aptitude, Personality development, English speaking.
Every job vacancy exams from technical (GATE, SSC, IES, State Govt. Jobs like state electricity board exams etc. ) to non-technical exams (SSC CGL, Banks etc) focus on Aptitude, Reasoning, English, GK during written exams and personality developments in interviews.
So, these aspects cannot be neglected, if we need to place the students in any job. These learning cannot take place at once, but need a period of time to learn so that we can build up confidence in it.
An engineering institute can ask teachers to at least guide for one hour in a week or more if possible. Because the target is job prospective (career) and if that is achieved, then that can be good for institute.
2. Engineering an option for most students and not the goal. Free marks offered in form of sessional, practicals, internal becomes sweet poison for student's career.
Many students take engineering because its an option for graduation (like B.Sc., B.A., B.Com, B.C.A.). Since engineering sounds good in listening, therefore students or parents choose engineering.
Engineering has become simpler to pass and build up good percentage. Let's take an example of any semester of RTU Exam. The theory papers are of 480 marks and rest 520 marks are in the hand of faculty.
Take an example, if in theory a student gets only 50% marks which scores to 240 marks. But out of the rest marks given by teachers, he is given free marks around 90% (of 520 marks) which scores to 468 marks. So, out of 1000 totals marks, he will get 708 marks. Thus for a student who is capable to score only 50% marks is given 70.80 %. Then why will that student take pains to study harder. Guardians feels happy when they see aggregate percentage but they don't know the reality.
Some tough call needs to be taken by faculty members by not giving free marks in sessional, internal, external, discipline and projects. Projects are purchased by students from shop, they do nothing in it, they know nothing about it, but marks given are very high.
So, it is the faculty members who is becoming sweet poison for the student' career. If internal marks are given in a proportion ratio to theory marks or PUT marks, then they will study harder and learn a lot more.
3. Students are the best advertiser of their own College/ Institute. Feedback should be taken from them in time to time: