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Excerpts:
Rangan Banerjee, Director of IIT Delhi:
- We assign practical problems to our students as part of the curriculum, e.g. a group of students worked on designing a biosensor
- We focus on "learning by doing"
- We are against "chalk and talk"
- We are getting our alumni in industry involved
Simrit Kaur, Principal of SRCC:
- It's very important for us to be connected with industry
- We need to bridge the industry-academia gap
Maniska Kinnu, Director of NIFT Delhi:
- We do a lot of classroom projects for industry
- Recently our students were involved in designing work for the G2 Summit
Sudhir Krishnaswamy:
- The discussion is "completely wrong"
- "We don't try to do any of this"
- "We teach foundational first principles"
- "We don't teach people a shallow version of craft"
- We would be making a "huge mistake" by building the curriculum around the needs of "professional practitioners and firms"
- "Beyond a point I don't care what they need"
- "I know my field and I know that my duty to my students is to teach them the foundational first principles of that field"
- "The market will come to us"
- "The best universities in the world do not do skill-based, craft training"
- "That's the view of education that we take and we have no intention of changing it"
I just want to make one point. He says that the best universities in the world don't focus on skills, but isn't clinical legal education a big deal abroad? The website of Harvard Law School has a whole page on it and they say as follows:
"Clinics give students hands-on legal experience under the supervision of attorneys. With clinical placements in-house and at organizations across the country, and the opportunity for students to create their own independent placements, HLS students participate in more clinical placements than any law school in the world."
https://hls.harvard.edu/clinics/