The new curriculum of NIFT attempts to give the student a rich repertoire of experience and understanding that will hopefully inculcate a desire and a capability for lifelong learning and will stand him or her in good stead in these disruptive times of change. Industry engagement is envisaged as a learning process which, by providing exposure to the students in real life working environment as part of an academic curriculum helps them to develop and enhance academic, personal and professional competencies coupled with deeper understanding of the ethics and values that distinguish a good professional. A significant part of the engagement programme is based on regulated exposure of the students to the industry environment as part of the course curriculum under the guidance of both academia and industry.
The revised curriculum structure of NIFT arrived through deliberations, workshops and interactions involving internal experts and eminent academicians, industrialists and NIFT Alumni envisaged the necessity and importance of Industry engagement through
-Interaction with Industry leaders and alumni in the classroom
-Sponsored classroom projects
-Industry visits
-Exposure to exhibitions and fairs
-Internships
-Joint research endeavours
-hands on practical learning experience in industry environment
to be transacted within the curriculum structure. Critical to this new perspective would be the planning of Industry Engagements and scheduling them in coordination with the industries as per the requirement to transact the new curriculum in the UG & PG Programmes offered by NIFT and its campuses.
