Technical Education for Knowledge Society

A new educational paradigm is just beginning to emerge particularly in technical education, but is gathering momentum in a variety of settings. In facing the fast changing environment, many policy makers and educators get confused with uncertainties and ambiguities and lose their direction in the rapid globalization. Traditionally, technical education system views the infrastructure of technical professionals in terms of engineers, polytechnic diploma holders, technicians, vocational workers etc. There is an urgent need for a comprehensive framework for understanding the impacts of rapid developments and advancing implications for reforms and innovation in education particularly in technical education.

This paper discusses the case for creating a new technical university affiliating all the engineering colleges in the state. Creation of such university will address a number of important problems faced by the higher education system in India. This university should also attract scholars from around the world and ability to compete with and be ranked among the very best in the world. This paper also highlights technical educational opportunity with respect to knowledge society.