The Mahindra Group
has marked its entry into the technical education space by setting up
an engineering institution in Hyderabad. Mahindra École Centrale has
been set up in collaboration with the France-based Ecole Centrale and
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University-Hyderabad. Tech Mahindra
executive vice chairman Vineet Nayyar
said the institute would facilitate extensive industry-university
collaboration to generate global soft-skilled tech managers, which is
important for India to maintain a competitive edge. The institute will
also bring upfront industry managerial practices to practising
engineering graduates.
The campus would start absorbing students from the academic year 2014 with an intake of 300 for the initial batch and in the years would raise this to 2,500. To start with, it would consider the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-JEE) score for admissions. The campus is affiliated to JNTU-Hyderabad.
Nayyar on Friday said India despite having numerous engineering institutes fared badly in terms of qualitative considerations. The group plans to establish full-fledged technical education campuses and satellite centres in cities including Chennai, Goa, Pune and Jaipur as it sees rapid transformation in Indian education sector.
Speaking on the current state of technical education in the country, JNTU vice chancellor Rameshwar Rao said commercialisation of technology was low at the university level and India should encourage 'mission critical research' approach to facilitate knowledge sharing between the industry and varsities.
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