technical education

A preference for degrees over diplomas has affected technical education in India with many outstanding polytechnic institutions becoming poor and offering degree courses.In the past, the number of technicians were almost double than that of engineers in the country. However, today there are more engineering students that polytechnic students and more engineering colleges than polytechnic institutes. technical education had been witnessing a large number of drop-outs every year. Though nearly 36,000 students get admission to technical institutes every year as against nearly 47,000 for engineering courses, a number of students drop out of the course by the end of first or second year.