What is quality education?

What does an individual do for quality control of Engineering Education in India?

• Every year Indian Engineering colleges are producing Lakhs of Engineers. Sadly, only 30%-40% of them are employable. Who is the culprit? Its education system, society around failing to create social, economic, engineering and industry awareness among candidates having low Employ-ability Quotient(EQ). Quality Engineering education is limited to the students of IITs, NITs and RECs. What should rest of students who couldn't get through entrance exams, don't they deserve quality education? Should they suffer just for a reason that they couldn't make to these Institutes?  Poverty exacerbates the situation.Very few Pre-University college students know about JEEE/ AIEEE exams, not everyone can afford coaching classes. Students from Rural areas and poor still have no access to internet, good schools teaching them something out of State board text books(No practical science and technology education). India has lots of great talents  missing out there.! So, how can we ensure Engineering colleges these students get into can still improve their EQ? How can an individual contribute to address these burning problems of our country?

• Answer:

  Your question might be write in it's context, but your description really screws the question. This isn't like the questions on quora asking how to increase the exponentially depleting economy in India, to which the answer says stop buying gold :/ Problems like this almost always have roots at the ground-level. The problem is not AIEEE/IIT-JEE, it's almost always over-population and brain washing thanks to the primitive thinking and ideology that still exists in certain sects of the society. Almost all parents want an engineer today. Hell, in most classes marriages are made on the bases of degrees. A B.Tech is just not equal and comparable to a BA degree or an Hns. in Multimedia or Mass Communication. Everyone wants a doctor or an engineer. This results in almost 85% of the prospective-entrance giving students not getting any decent knowledge and the basic foundation required to excel at engineering but rather learning how to crack that god-damn 3-hour Entrance paper having 90 MCQ's. 3-years of non-stop pressure and mind numbing experiences what with the 1000 books and tuitions and coaching and what-not and it all boils down to how you gave that entrance paper, and then people ask why don't we have a majority of good engineers. And we're almost always ready to give-up stating that we didn't get into an IIT or an NIT or DTU/NSIT or any of the other prestigious colleges that exist and believing that our life is a dead end now as there are no god jobs left. It's not like that, at all.!! Not all IIT-ians are taken up by MNC's for crores and tens-of-lakhs, neither are they god. The one's who don't let success/failure get up in their head and ruin everything, are the one's who become successful. There are almost a 1000-examples you see and hear about everyday. When one talks about genius engineers India has ever seen who can forget : Mr. Pranav Mistry. The genius, whose prototypes and designs acted as nothing less than stepping stones for all the scientific and tech-y epic things we see in sci-fi movies. Ask yourself, where did he come from, : "Nirma Institute" now thats a college with no highly qualified and renowned faculty neither do they have the amazing infrastructure and resources required to excel in hardcore-research. But did he let all this worry him. NO, and where is he today ? Somewhere between epic research at MITLabs and the Samsung headqurters. Then there are the newspapers that carry news about kids of local street venders and drivers studying under street lamps and gettin into IIM's and clearing IAS exams. Sure you can cry all you want about quotas and SC/ST people taking your seats, sure it might be a bit sad, but QUIT whining for nothing.. quota or no quota, it ain't no piece of cake to clear entrances today.  There is an almost equal competition for the quota seats. The time is long gone when some people didn't know about AIEEE or IIT-JEE. Every indian knows about them. Just read about the 30-40% people you're saying, who get success in their life. They put in a 50-100% more effort than those other 60% thats why they are successful. "If everybody is somebody, then, no-body is anybody.!!" The extra hard-work is almost always essential and that's what is needed to rise above the rest. It doesn't matter much what college you're from. Sure it might be a status symbol, might help you to get that first job, but an year or two in the industry tells everyone exactly where they stand. You can't flash your B.Tech from IIT degree everywhere you go, you need to do substantial work too. As for the problem with the amount of people opting for engineering degrees. You need to stop for a minute. Think above Kota. Think above FIITJEE/Resonance/Narayana(alpha, omega gamma, pi-all the stupid coaching places). Think above your parents constant coaxing an forcing. Above what the society may say. Stop and ask yourself, do you really need that B.Tech degree?? Would it help you in achieving your future goals? If the sincere answer that you get says: YES.! . Then work for it. If you know it's a NO, do yourself and the other candidates a favor. Step Aside.! Do something worthwhile.! Will help you in the long run.!! (y)