The Educated Unemployables

Date: Oct 18, 2006

The Educated Unemployables

Date: Oct 19, 2006

5 star rating for Mysore Univ.

The discussion in the aforelinked thread deals with a similar issue. The higher education system (in fact, the entire ed. system) is in need of a major overhaul and most people seem to agree on this.

A point I'd like to raise, even though it is off the current topic is that we (I should say "you", because I am only actively jumping in the fray now) discuss at great lengths about a variety of issues -education reform, governance reform, management reform etc etc, but if we don't lobby for these with sufficient force, nothing is going to get done. I don't think any of us here, many even with illustrious pasts, seem to have the political clout to influence any major policy decisions. Well, I guess the hope is to raise enough rubble for at least the mainstream media to pick it up and may be something will happen then. But thats just an optimistic hope at best, isn't it? I know this point is for another discussion altogether, but couldn't resist bringing it up here.

Date: Oct 19, 2006

On a related note, online edition of SoM today carries an editorial about the VC of Mysore University acknowledging the sad state of affairs.

Our Vice-Chancellor Prof. J. Shashidhara Prasad, is in league with himself in the matter of minimum speak. He has scaled greater heights by speaking some home truths. What he openly disclosed the other day was a case of open self-criticism. He chose a seemingly quiet audience to tell them that not even a single candidate trained at the University of Mysore's 'Centre for Training Aspirants of Competitive Exami-nations' had passed in the past thirty years.

VC Rings the Bell - SoM Oct 20, 2006

Date: Oct 19, 2006

In the blog posting 'The Educated Unemployables' , there are many misconceptions and some are downright hearsay. This being a complex issue with many dimensions and for a start I start listing misconceptions and give an insider version( a few members of the interview panel who since have spoken to us) what really transpired which is at odds with this blogs premise and the opinions of interested organisations which we collected during the last 24 hours, I would be trampled on as saying things which is my pure imagination and being negative.

Look at the status of this blog and other blogs with nil responses. Where are the other 'do gooders, the genteel folks who would like to discuss issues and issues only...'? Sans response tolls the demise of blogs. No one needs to suggest closing it down. They simply fade away.

Om Prakash

This comment has been copy/pasted from the thread to another post (...closure is an option), appearing elsewhere on this site. Para One of Mr Prakash's comment, I thought, belongs here.

Date: Nov 27, 2006

Students are interested in comforts than efforts. Because of lacking in their basics (may be in engineering or any other stream) they could not find any job for themselves. Infosys, Wipro, Mistral, TCS or any IT company for that matter, initially test with technical and aptitude. Most of the questions are on basics of their previus educaiton.

My personal feeling is that once they good at basics, automatically they will be asured of good job.

Aprt from this even they should cultivate a good presentation skills to present themselves.

Date: Dec 3, 2006

As per media report only 15% of IIM's get employed and probably others have to fend for themselves. At least in the engineering cadre the employment opportunity is 25% It only indicates that our educational system needs thorough revamping. Considering that every year 30 lakh graduate in various disiplines, the future is not rosy.

Date: Dec 18, 2006

The other probable reason for burgeoning unemployment may be not that they are inherently upto the mark but the explosion of IT industry appears to me is creating piquaint situation. When the IT sector is recruiting people and paying them salaries unheard of it has whetted the appetite of engineers in other disiplines. Thus they may be reluctant to join other mundane establishments recruiting say chemical, mechanical or civil engineers. In other words the IT industry is sucking only those who can write programmes for software and has created a vacuum as it were. I was talking to a friend of mine who is a top executive in a company and he was bitter at what IT companies are doing for he is unable to find engineers at salary of even Rs.15,000. He predicts a gloomy scenerio seeing the geometrical progress in recrutment in IT Industry. He predicts that in order to be competitive they will be forced to remove people resulting in flooding the country with unemployed software engineers who are no good anyway in any other productive industries where they have to do hands-on work and shopfloor management in which they are ill equipped being accostomed to work in air-conditioned rooms writing softwares. In other words he foresees the IT bubble burst. It is a known fact none of those recruited can rise to management level in IT Industry and in course of time certain ennui may set in. We are already hearing bitter complaints against the IT industry In fact, he opined that instead of recruting IT graduates right and left the IT sector should have recruited those who have either completed 12th or even lower and thoroughly train them because everybody has inherent capacity to catch up with software programming. By this they will have done a real service to the society better by creating better employment opportunities to rural people also.I thought I would share this perception which is not altogethe a fancy prediction though it may be faulted in some details but not altogether wrong.