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Bengaluru, Aug 12: Admission process for polytechnic diploma courses commenced in the State with Higher Education Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan on Thursday inaugurating the process with 8 new courses in emerging areas, 12 specialization pathways and revamped C20 curriculum.
The Minister said the latest steps are taken with a focus on increasing the employability of students and to align the courses with NSQF (National Skill Qualification Framework) and global standards to suit the current developments and demands. The 8 new Diploma programs offered by DTE (Department of Technical Education) in emerging areas include Alternative Energy Technologies, Cyber security, Food Processing and Preservation, Travel and Tourism (including logistics management), Cloud Computing and Big Data, Automation and Robotics, Direction, screen play writing and TV production, Cyber physical systems and Security. These are being introduced in the colleges at Gouribidanuru, Shiralakoppa, Kudligi, Rabakavi, Banahatti, Aurad, S J Polytechnic of Bengaluru, Chennagiri, Koppa, Honnali and Kapu (Udupi) he said. Apart from the newly added courses, as many as 33 courses exist in the Polytechnic Diploma.
In addition, in the 3rd year specialization pathways will be provided in 12 subjects which include Data Science, AI & ML, Power Engineering, Renewable Energy, Industrial Automation & Industrial Electrician, Structural Engineering, Sustainable Built Environment; Infrastructure Engineering; Net zero Buildings, IoT, VLSI and Embedded System, PCB Design & Fabrication and Medical Electronics, Dr Narayana explained.
The admission process has also been changed to enable students walk into nearby Polytechnic and seek admission into the course of their interest. Except for the select 26 Polytechnics (out of the total 87 government polytechnics) where merit based admissions are offered, students can walk into the remaining Polytechnics and get admitted on the first-cum-first basis into programs of their choice. Further, the minister said: “DTE has designed new courses and new C20 curriculum after extensive consultations with industry, academia, alumni and government. In addition to this cues from the Diploma courses in countries like Germany, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore have been adapted.”
Polytechnic Studies has been facilitated with LMS to enable access to learning from anywhere and at anytime. This helps students to assess themselves continuously and to apply corrective action. Polytechnics are equipped with Smart classrooms to facilitate digital learning in classrooms, he explained. The minister also expressed hope there would be increase in number of admissions to the Polytechnic Diploma courses in the current year.
A newly designed logo of the State Polytechnic and a promotional video were launched along with State level Diploma admission prospectus was also released. G Kumar Naik, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Pradeep P, Commissioner, DCTE (Department of Collegiate and Technical Education) and Manjunatha R, Director, DTE, Y N Doddamani and Assistant Director, DTE were present.