Goa, July 3 -- Goa's private engineering colleges are grappling with a deep ening admission crisis, with nearly 475 seats remaining vacant after the first round of admissions, ex posing structural problems that ed ucators say cannot be solved merely by relaxing eligibility norms. The Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), in an attempt to arrest falling admissions, has eased the mandatory JEE-Main el igibility requirement for engineer ing admissions this year. However, educationists and industry experts say the slump reflects a much larg er shift in student aspirations, an oversupply of engineering seats, changing employment trends, and an outdated academic model struggling to remain relevant. The numbers themselves under line the chal...