As I was educated outside India plenty a times I was subject to the criticism that my education was not good enough. But over a period of time I have realized that maybe primary and middle school education in India might be good but after that very few institutes are there in India that provide even reasonal education. I have seen fellow students and collegues (educated in india) struggle with what should be easy. But I won't just blame the education system here... each individual is to be blamed. Cause all that we worry about is getting the marks and not actually learning what we are doing. Maybe with time this mind set will change among the IndiansIndia still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last count. But their competence has become the issue.
A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in four engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a team or deliver basic oral presentations.
The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college education in India and the galloping pace of the country’s service-driven economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China’s. The software and service companies provide technology services to foreign companies, many of them based in the United States. Software exports alone expanded by 33 percent in the last year.
The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with such demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most selective universities generate too few graduates, and new private colleges are producing graduates of uneven quality.
I completely agree...
Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India from NYTimes
2 comments:
I dont know if individuals should be blamed for the rat race to get marks. They are driven by the competition with a billion other people. Thats a lot of pressure to deal with. Also there needs to be a deomnstrable gain in trying to understand deeper concepts than to be good at forecasting the question paper. The system has to encourage practical skills and deeper understanding. Oral exams should be given higher importance. Presentation skills should be stressed on. Quality of teaching needs a big upheaval too.
my point of view will be - indians as individuals since the start of kindergardern , learning is preached as a tool like any other spaner in a business. implimenting what we learn to make a living has slowly gone out of the minds rather , to make status and money what is to be learnt is now learnt since the birth. the process is reversed. Not only here in many of the asian countries. I mean even the koreans and japanese. No idea on europeans but my fellow europeans just do things stupid that basic idea many a times lack in them where in with me - concentration lacks.
From your point - i agree but not fully. Education is not just system driven but also individual driven. Moment Indian individual minds change for learning what interest them rather what interest they get out of one particular learning , the problem is solvable.
For example - if people around me had been able to find or forsee a rewarding career in archeology survey - I wount have been an engineer with machines but unravelling history.
A compromise for what we want to be and what has to be - is more in india - competition to survive - education has become a tool , a weapon to survive in the crowsed forest where the same race kills others not with the sharp weapon but the weapon which they are equiped which cannot be seen . the educational advantage.
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