{"id":19921,"date":"2016-08-08T06:16:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T06:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/?p=19921"},"modified":"2016-08-08T06:16:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T06:16:56","slug":"english-the-great-engineering-dream-loses-steam-as-more-students-turn-to-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/?p=19921","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->The great engineering dream loses steam as more students turn to arts<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->The engineering dream appears to be losing steam.<\/p>\n<p>The number of candidates taking the joint entrance examination (JEE) for engineering institutes has dipped over the past two consecutive years, a first in the history of what is considered one of India\u2019s toughest tests.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates who took the JEE dropped by 27,000 this April from last year, and by 56,000 in 2015 when compared to the preceding year.<\/p>\n<p>More than a million students take the two-part test every year and the number of aspirants has risen by 20,000 to 30,000 every year since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>But academics say the real story is not in the absolute numbers \u2013 which form a small chunk of the total IIT aspirants \u2013 but in the broader trend that mirrors a shift in social attitudes.<\/p>\n<p>Younger generations are unwilling to follow their parent\u2019s example and enrol in an engineering course, long considered a safe bet for an aspiring middle class, they say. Fewer cushy engineering jobs have dissuaded students further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore parents and students are now willing to experiment rather than take the traditional route,\u201d said Lata Vaidyanathan, former principal of Delhi\u2019s Modern School, Barakhamba Road.<\/p>\n<p>The sliding numbers have alarmed the human resource development ministry, which is set to discuss the matter at a meeting with the IIT council next month, officials said.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The engineering dream appears to be losing steam. The number of candidates taking the joint entrance examination (JEE) for engineering institutes has dipped over the past two consecutive years, a first in the history of what is considered one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19922,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19921\/revisions\/19922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19921"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=19921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}