Summary:
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As the admission procedures to engineering colleges for 2018-'19 academic year come to a close, 50% seats remain vacant. Last year, around 45% seats were vacant.Compared to last year, several self-financing colleges brought down their shutters this time. In order to improve the quality of higher education, all colleges should obtain NBA and NAAC accreditations. Now, only 25,500 seats were filled and 24,451 remains vacant.Addressing a meeting of technical education institution heads (principals and managers), higher education minister K T Jaleel asked them to take urgent steps to improve quality of higher education sector. Admitting students sans aptitude and shrinking job opportunities were the major reasons for the slump in enrolment, the minister said..