post news network, Bhubaneswar, June 26: The National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research (NITTTR), Chandigarh, has decided to extend their helping hand to the numerous technical educational institutions of the state to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical knowledge.
Elaborating on the future course of actions, M P Poonia, director, NITTTR said, “Orissa is enriched with many quality technical educational institutions. With the help of video conferencing, social media and other modes of communication, our organisation has decided to disseminate quality information to the students and the faculty members of the existing technical institutions in the state.
“We are already working towards making digital reading materials and videos for tutorial classes in English and Hindi to be held across the country. As we are a government organisation we will not discriminate between private and public organisations and the benefit will reach both the stakeholders in the state.” According to the NITTTR officials, an MoU is likely to be signed in the month of July this year.
Meanwhile, the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) and the PEC University of Technology, Punjab, signed an MoU Thursday to facilitate the movement of knowledge and other educational resources to improve educational quality at both these universities.
M K Arora, director of PEC University, said, “Our joint initiative with the BPUT will help both of us in the areas of faculty exchange, exchange of available information, skill development of both the varsities and many other areas related to education, which are likely to benefit both the institutions.”
Welcoming the move, S S Patnaik, vice chancellor of BPUT said, “The move will help us in sharing knowledge and will allow both the parties to prepare the students of the next generation for the competitive market.”
Meanwhile, Patnaik also said that BPUT was planning to offer short-term degree courses to professionals, who had several years of work experience in the technology sector, but lacked a professional degree.
These degrees, which according to him, were ‘customised degree programmes through credit mapping and exemption’, were likely to be available in the BTech and the MTech courses.
Elaborating on the scheme, Patnaik said, “If a diploma holder in Engineering has been working as industry personnel for a period of 10 years and wishes to have a professional BTech degree, the BPUT will provide him with a customised platform to acquire higher qualifications.
“The varsity will compute the industrial experience and give him/her credit exemption by slashing the time required to acquire the higher degree.”
The speakers spoke during a press conference in the city, Thursday, organised to inform the media about the ‘Industry, Academia Integration Meet’ to be held in Rourkela Friday. The meeting is organised by the BPUT with the assistance of the Silicon Institute of Technology.
