Hi folks, welcome to career wishesh, your complete source of information related to education and career. This week's career wishesh focuses on the need for bringing about changes in our higher education. Go through the write up and leave your comments!
Ravi, an arts graduate was always confused looking at the n number of computer training institute at Ameerpet cross roads in Hyderabad. He wondered why engineering graduates have the need to approach private coaching centres. While many things were running on his mind, he happens to come across his childhood friend Robert. This was the conversation between them:
Ravi: Bro what are you doing these days?
Robert: I have just completed my B.Tech bro. Right now I am learning a new software at a computer training institute here in Hyderabad.
Ravi: What software brother? And why learn it from outside when you just passed out from engineering?
Robert: Dude, give me a break! Do you expect the B.Tech course that I studied to give impart complete knowledge on latest software? To get a good job in a software company, you need to be well equipped with some software. Therefore, I am going for a coaching centre.
This is not the case with just Robert but any engineering graduate for that matter. Even after taking a four year degree from the universities, students are still bee lining at the unrecognized software institutes at many busy centres in Hyderabad. Who should be blamed for this? The universities or the students or the ministry of HRD?
The curriculum in B.Tech although emphasizes on the mandatory project at the end of the year, the number of students taking it as serious still remains to be a question. Will that mere project be well enough to polish his skills is another question that keeps popping up during discussions on career. The companies, especially based out in the United States, have set up their branches in many urban cities across the country. They expect a different output from the employees while the education that the fresh engineering graduates receive during their graduation is something outdated.
It is high time that universities should realize the need to bring in a change in the education system. Syllabus should be designed in such a way that theory and practicals are on par. Without practical knowledge, theory will be of no use. Similarly an outdated theory when put in practice systematically too will not help any students.
The universities should aggressively enter into pacts with different foreign universities for exchanging the knowledge. Universities should also design the courses in such a way that after every one month of class room education, one month should be allotted to practicals. There should also be a six months compulsory internship for every course. All these things may or may not happen. But, one should always escalate these demands so that if not today at least one can give a better tomorrow to our future generation. Secondly, an individual should make it a habit that he/she enters in to internship with some company on his own-even though the university doesn't ask him/her to do the same-so that when a student comes out of an institution he should be straight away hunted by recruiter and not by coaching centre head.
That's all for this week friends, catch you all next week with a new topic in career wishesh.
(AW Phani)
