Design Education

Formal

Informal

NSDC

NIDs

IITs

NIFT

Skill Universities

Private

Rubika

Numerous

ISDI

Vocational

Short Term Skilling Diplomas upto a year

Directly with a practitioner

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Degree Qualifications

Issues

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Training

Institutes

Faculty

Pedagogy

UGC norm of PhD doesn't suit, hence driving Universities crazy in trying to find qualified manpower

There are career teachers, who of course practice but have low industry involvement

Hardly any admission norms except for the top few

Curriculum

Institutes have ongoing unchangeable curriculum and then there are institutes which totally leave it to the practitioner

There being no fixed curriculum to design, being a cross functional field, there is too much variation in curriculum

Industry

Low to no industry involvement

Bloom's taxonomy is unsuitable for Design

Too much focus on concepts, and very low on skilling leaves most people as designers, who are unable to adapt to modern technology

Personality driven leading to arrogance issues that trickle down to the students

No exposure to content marketing and marketplaces

Lack of Technical Expertise in students/ Curriculum

Inability to attract the most intelligent students due to lack of awareness