Education is power. It is endless. You can
invest your whole life in education and at the end of life you will find a
lot is still not known to you. If you are working
professional, off-course you left for night colleges, open or distance mode.
But if you are non-working and looking for a career after completing
education, it is a very big question.
Yes, your career may get affected if you are a student and opting open
courses. But don't worry, it will not affect so much.
In India, education level is increasing
day by day. You can just imaging in March 2011, there were around 370
Universities, and now it is around 600. In 2 years it is almost double.
UGC's 12th Planning(2012-2017) is aiming to setup more universities. A
very big % of Indians are still not able to get graduation level
education. More degree colleges, Institutions, and universities are
required. You may wonder to know that just 7% Indian gets graduated. You
can think about more higher education like Masters & PhD!!!
Seeing our university age-group
population, you can just imaging that around 10,000 scholars were able
to get IITs umbrella rest goes into different peek engineering colleges.
Recently government has spread IITs and marked our nation premier
institutions/ colleges as IIT to provide high quality of education. But,
do you think, this figure is enough to tackle the big technologies
demands. No, it can't cover. In IT, there is no barrier. You can find
everywhere Art, Commerce & simple science(not CS) graduates in software
development industry. The demand is huge. BITS( top 20 science &
technology schools in Asia) has started Industry Integrated courses to
fill the gap and providing BS & MS degrees. As long you are updating
yourself with new trends you are fit. There are around 1600 engineering
colleges with total intake of around 7-8 Lac only ! Engineering colleges
are facing shortage of faculty as every one is gong in other industry
than education.
You might be thinking that then what is
the problem? Well, let me explain it in simpler way. Do all students get
place in IITs/IIMs? No. Why? Because these institutions has setup some
rules. They are strict who can join them.
Like this, there are some big companies
who has tendency to hire only engineering graduates(BE/BTech/BArch).
Some goes more than this and have fixed % creteria also. Some goes more
ahead have no educational gap and etc etc.
There are still big and good companies
who don't care about all these. They hire engineers and look for
engineer minds.
In some countries, open education is seen
with good eyes. In India, due to some money maker persons that are
establishing private state universities for business are making its
reputation down. You can find many private state universities who can
sell you degrees in very marginal amount. This all is happening because
careless governing body of UGC & AICTE. Even DEC is not so active. In
2010, 44 deemed universities were unrecognized by Govt of India as
they were violating rules. We have also seen that honorable the Supreme
court of India's has ordered to close about hundred Chhatisgarh's
universities at a time. There are very good universities who run their
courses in decent and strict manner. IGNOU is one of them. IGNOU is the
only national open university. Its MCA course is recognized by AICTE.
So, there is no need to worry about your
distance mode or open mode education. If you working professional, you
can opt for Industry Integrated courses (China works on it) from BITS,
open courses from good universities like IGNOU, Madras University etc.
Please note the following point while
going for distance/open mode education in India -
- Engineering courses(BTech/BE) are
invalid in distance/open mode(non-regular) .
- MCA is technical course and it
requires AICTE recognition. Please note that AICTE recognize at course level.
- Also asp per BCI ( a governing
body for Law education) LLB, LLM is invalid in non-regular mode.
- The same rule has been enforced
by MCI for medical courses like MBBS etc.
- There are many universities who
get recognition from DEC for a particular period and particular
courses only. But they start offering many degree courses. Here you
need to check DEC website to know for which course DEC has given
permission.
- These are private state
universities and they are not authorize to open franchise or study
center outside their territory( in thier establish state). But you
may find many universities who are outside their state and having
many centers through out the nation. Please be far from these. Any
day supreme court derecognize them and theirs sold degrees will
stand invalid automatically. Some private universities even not
recognized by DEC for short term courses too, are having their
centers in the whole nation and provide you regular courses making
Industry Integrated courses. They are focus on making money rather
that quality education.