Kerala’s engineering colleges manage to weather pandemic crisis
The Hindu
Buoyed by an encouraging campus placement trend, the college managements also anticipated a change in fortunes with an increase in student enrolment this year.
Managing to remain afloat amid the pandemic-induced crisis, engineering colleges in Kerala have survived a second year on the trot without any closure. Buoyed by an encouraging campus placement trend, the college managements also anticipated a change in fortunes with an increase in student enrolment this year.
With the admission process for B.Tech courses underway, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) is yet to receive any closure requests from self-financing colleges. While a private institution in Kottayam had reported the possibility of property attachment owing to loan default, the management has been confident its students would remain unaffected, sources said.
Even while it has been witnessing a scenario of over 17,000 seats going unfilled in self-financing colleges for many years, the State has been able to arrest a slide in the number of engineering colleges for the last two years. While there were 161 engineering colleges in the state in 2014, KTU currently has 145 affiliating colleges including 107 private and 24 government-controlled self-financing colleges.