PANJIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday launched the internship and apprenticeship programme organised by Directorate of Technical Education and GCCI (Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry)-Education Committee for engineering students.
Emphasising on the importance of timing an internship programme, Parrikar said internship should be slotted during the actual course of learning for it to become effective instead of scheduling it at the end of the course.
Parrikar further spoke of how a good engineer is able to strategise effective solutions to problems and technicalities that arise.
Goa University Vice-Chancellor Prof Varun Sahni said the link between the world of learning and the world of work has to periodically re-examined, re-designed and re-engineered.
“Institutions should keep a balance between the knowledge component and skill component. In today’s global scenario, it is not about rewarding individuals for what they know but for what they can do with what they know,” Sahni said.
Finance Secretary Daulat Hawaldar rued how the emphasis on understanding and learning concepts had diminished over the years while the emphasis on coaching classes and entrances exams had increased.
“Success currently is being measured in terms of placement and the package one gets and therefore there is a need to bring the focus on acquisition of skill, knowledge and learning,” he said.
Chairperson of the Board of Apprenticeship Training, Western Region, said that the percentage of lady apprentices in Goa was greater in comparison to the percentage in the other states in India.
