| | 4 MAY 2018HIGHERReviewEditorial"A branch of engineering that deals with the design and fabrication of structures for improving the way we live and work and for enabling rapid, safe and high-volume transportation. Examples include building roads, railways, bridges, canals, skyscrapers and factories," is one of the bookish definitions of Civil Engineering. By mentioning this definition upfront, I do not intent to underestimate my readers and I know that most of us are aware about the role of civil engineers in our society. Unfortunately, a few people in our country are still in a confused state of mind and they often consider civil engineers as the most suit-able category of professionals to be in the civil service domain. That has to be true in a way. By definition, a civil engineer can give valu-able inputs to various construction projects like dams, bridges, roads and toilets. However, are we training them to be a part nation build-ing process or have we come to a stage where our administrative of-ficers do not have any major responsibilities other than constructing the so-called important structures?Now, look at the quality of civil engineers in our country. Em-ployability of civil engineers stands at a meagre 6.48 per cent, ac-cording to one of the reports published in the recent year. The lowest employability figure across roles is observed in Chennai with em-ployability for the Civil Design Engineers as low as 1 percent. It is evident that a large number our civil engineering graduates do not possess the basic skills required to work in their core jobs. Still, that few people in our nation do not hesitate to talk about the role civil en-gineers can play in the administration department. As a nation full of young and talented resources, it is high time for us to re-construct the structure of education and certain job roles, so that we can progress toward modernity rather than going back to the antiquity. In this issue, we have come up with `Top 10 Promising Civil Engineering Colleges in India 2018,' which have been creating em-ployable civil engineers who can actually take up the core jobs and perform well from the day one. On the cover, we feature Valliammai Engineering College, an active entity in the process of knowledge building that has been working hard from the past to lead the future generations into R&D and innovation. Enjoy Reading. Sarath ShyamManaging Editorsarath@thehighereducationreview.comConstructors of a New NationVol 6 · Issue 4-1 · MAY - 2018Publisher & Editor Alok ChaturvediManaging Editor Sarath Shyam Editorial Team Anita Thomas Raman Balakrishnan Riya Das Sneha Choudhury Editorial Queries Sales & Advertisement Advertisement queries Office To Subscribe Visit www.thehighereducationreview.com/subscription or send email to subscription@thehighereducationreview.comCover price is Rs. 150 per issue.Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of BizprintMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murigheshpalya, Bangalore-560017.Copyright © 2018 BizprintMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.Prathyoosh.K.Shajiadvertise@thehighereducationreview.comNo.124, 2nd Floor, South Block, Surya Chambers, Airport Main Road, Bangalore 560017 Tel: 080-46441103T: 080-46441192editor@thehighereducationreview.comCirculation Manager Magendran PerumalGM Sales & Marketing Monisha RavinarayanGroup Art Director Ashok KumarVisualizers Vimalraj M Siva Sankar Suanya Mohana krishnanHigherEducationReviewHIGHERReview
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