Policy-Level Reforms for Outcome Based Engineering Education in India

Abstract

The trend of getting autonomy status to Engineering College is moving fast forward under Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP), a scheme of Government of India or otherwise as a symbol of pride but has forgotten the most important educational philosophy called Outcome Based Education (OBE). The OBE philosophy is supposed to ensure that, all students emerge as ‘successful’ by promoting learning successfully. OBE gives an opportunity for students to truly catch up and erase the records of earlier mistakes. However, the true spirit of OBE is not seen in Educational Institute who are accredited under OBE philosophy of National Board of Accreditation (NBA)[6]. Author of this paper presents a policy based concept so that all autonomous Institutions may follow to claim OBE tag for their Educational philosophy.