Abstract
India claims to have the third largest repository of Scientists and Technologies in the world; yet it imports technology even for making tooth-brush bristles. It adumbrates on the need to have more and superior technical education yet it bureaucratises and inhibits creative efforts to do so.It is in this situation that one has to look at higher education, the role of private agencies, and the coordinated efforts needed to raise engineering education towards its envisaged goals. These issues are taken up in this paper under these heads.1. The Paradox of Education2. The Fundamental Issues3. The Chain of Events4. The Task for Private Agencies.The first section explains the paradox within which one has to operate, the second explores the main questions in engineering education, the third sequences the present situation, and the last elaborates on the role of private agencies and the things that they have to do.
