This is exactly the problem: since school we are constantly told how important it is to mug up all the books and formulas. But we really need is a practical side to learning: gaining knowledge and key soft skills to compete in a global environment. Something like the trained arrow course can surely help. Check it here: http://bit.ly/2AwcVE6
This position is highly a matter of great anxiety for the people in general and govt. in particular as its plan to compete in the knowledge society of world in shortest time to take India to a position of strength may get frustrated if we do not act fast to improve our education system.
persons who does not get any employment are becoming teachers or retired teachers who were there in Govt are becoming teachers.further more almost all graduates want a particular jobs for them either in metros or outside india..there are lotjobs are available in 2 tier cities in India.
More or less, teachers across India, and almost all institutes are at the worst level. Either they are incapable or disinterested.
Further, Govt and private institutes should pay reasonable salaries so that the Teachers won't look at this profession as fall abck option but they get into it with interest. He someone is not fit, fire them.
Re: unemployable graduates
by pravin sarode on Jul 30, 2014 08:22 PM
doctor anil d mokashi now not alive from VJTI joined vidyalankar classes as director our exam system is outdated we byheart the subject without knowing it like languages craming
Re: Even a monkey_can_be employable
by Hari G on Jan 21, 2015 08:29 PM
please understand the topic. It is not joblessness in the market. it is UN-employability of our grads.
Quality of education is certainly eroded. Matriculate 40 yrs ago, has better perception of several issues than today's Graduate. During TDP & Congress rule in AP, anyone could start Jr College in 1 Room Apt, Degree College 2 BR Apt & PG/University 3 BR Apt. AICTE is also very liberal granting permission to Engig Colleges in AP, most of which run from Poultry farms & Cattle sheds. Added to this generosity by AICTE, AP had also offered Fee reimbursement package FRP) & the report says that about 350 Engg Colleges were started (in AP) after FRP offered. The Govt has spent 35,000 crores on FRP & its no secret that more than 50% of it would have gone to Management, Politicians & AICTE. Everyone joins Engg only to fly off to US with SW job offer, in Campus selection but how many can get even Data Entry Operator' job is a big question. Some of the suicides, are on account of depression, unable to meet academic requirements, leaving sorrow to poor parents. One Jt Director in DEpt of Higher Education commented that "now the time has come to shut down several Engg Colleges". There are no qualified teachers in 90% of the Engg Colleges & standard is so great that Tutorial Colleges have mushroomed all over HYD under the great Adm of AP Govt. Management rotates Faculty, from one College to another, when AICTE comes for Annual Inspection/ritual (collection of their fees) I do not know if the situation is any better in other competing States like TN, Maha
Dear writer you have taken a good catchy heading, but the contents are all trash. Pl. take feed-backs from the the actual un-employed engineers rather than from some Delhi IIT grad. etc.
I've been in a senior position in very large organizaion and recruit and train engineers for the last many years. The fact is that our engineers are 'over educated'.
Barring the R & D units, most Indian co's in their field of work employ or need only HS level of knowledge! But how to select or whom to employ ? Thus just short listing/screening has been based on some criteria, your certificates, your college, are you an engineer ? your marks etc. After employment, its only your intelligence in the actual work field which matters and most engineers would laugh at the demand of engineering knowledge in their actual work field.
Re: The Heading is Catchy but Contents All Trash
by Ashwin on Jul 29, 2014 06:11 PM
I would accept your view that "most of the jobs except R&D,require only High School but I would go to say not most but all, including IAS,IPS etc. require only HS". We know that all the successful Bania Cos employ only Matriculates & are more profitable. We hardly see anything more than Matriculates in the Western Countries, except teaching in Schools/colleges. But in India we have Matriculates in teaching & Doctorates in Clerical jobs. Can any one say why an IAS or IPS Officer needs Ph.D and Waste Govt time? Does he really spend so much time on his Ph.D (wasting Govt manhours) OR the whole job like thesis is written by some one else? We need to do something serious about the situation.
Re: The Heading is Catchy but Contents All Trash
by IThink ThereforeIAm on Jul 30, 2014 12:16 PM
I so agree with you, though I feel there's truth on both sides of the assertion.
The thing is, the present trend in Indian industry is towards services. And services hardly requires the kind of knowledge that is imparted to Indian graduates. More often than not, more than actual subject knowledge (which in many cases is so devalued by our businessmen and "industrialists") it is street smartness and communication skills that matter on Indian business ground. As an electronics engineer I've lost count of the amount of stuff I've had to study - electromagnetic field theory, feedback loops and Laplace transforms, Antennae and wave propagation, z-transforms and DSP, partial differential equations and double integration -- not one of which I've used even remotely in my two decade long working career. The truth is in 99% of Indian business and industry subject knowledge does not matter. Having said that, I also think Indian education has to improve vastly to match western standards. Having worked also in the IT industry, I can confidently say that most European / American programmers can write better code and do better architecting than Indian professionals with twice their experience. Indian education is based on cramming and rote learning, with zero emphasis on analytical thinking or questioning. As a result we have copy-paste graduates who are helpless and have to Google to bail them out in many difficult or not-so-difficult situations.
Re: Re: The Heading is Catchy but Contents All Trash
by pravin sarode on Jul 30, 2014 08:27 PM
52 subjects in 4 years u have to pass how many subject u really apply in day to day life is real application there are still 200 plus poor marathi majority speaking students who fail reapeatedly in engineering exams for no fault of their own as mumbai university has closed down all the old courses for them in year 1992 raj thakare came to help students but now also students from middle class marathi families are neither lay man as they are as on date 12th pass but can not do job as engineer as mumbai university closed all options for the poor students who can not pay private tutions fees
