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Challenge is employability – Mr.Azim Premji
Let me take this opportunity to a share few of my thoughts on the global
engineering education and employability scenario. According to a Nasscom estimate,
the supply of IT Engineering graduates in India was 95,000 in 2003-04, in 2004-05
it was 100,000 and in 2005-06 it was 111,000.
Each year, we as a country produce, almost twice the number of engineers produced
by the US and a little less than twice of all that Europe produces. A peek into
the impetus given to education in our country indicates that the spending on education
has grown five times in the last 50 years. The challenge is not so much from other
parts of the globe as it is from China. China is today the largest producer of engineering
graduates in the world. So, will India overtake China over the next few years? "In
my view, it may not be possible though, we are not far behind".
During our time, there were only a handful of institutes but now the number of institutes
set up for various disciplines year on year indicates an engineering education boom
in India. Engineering colleges in the country have been growing at 20 per cent a
year. Further the quality of engineering education is also getting a boost.
The paradox is that, despite the increase in the number of colleges, the competition
for acquiring fresh talent every year is so heated that it gives an impression that
resources are really scarce. In reality, there is a plethora of career options for
engineers of current years. The challenge is not the supply of talent but that of
talent that meets the needs of the corporate world. In other words, the challenge
is that of employability!! It's not about having a good curriculum or good faculty.
What then is the employability enigma? We conducted a survey of all the stakeholders
on the employability front to understand the mystery. The results indicate that
if the students augment their skills in a few specific areas desired by the industry
employability in the country can be significantly enhanced.
While India currently boasts of one of the world's largest qualified pools of scientific
and engineering manpower, the growing global demand for industry-oriented professionals
is gradually widening demand-supply gap.
Innovate:
Innovation can help us to a large extent in handling the challenges of
employability and engineering education. While innovation is 'doing' things differently,
creativity is all about 'thinking' differently. Innovation is essentially the application
of high creativity. Innovation is personally very exciting for me and the most important
differentiator for winning. I would want to summarize it with a couple of key points.
One, engineering educators and curriculum developers must anticipate dramatic changes
in engineering practice and adapt their programs accordingly.
Two, we need innovative ways to improve the training of engineers to prepare them
for addressing the complex questions raised by emerging technologies.
Mission10X is one of our quantum innovation projects. Quantum innovation starts
with figuring out where you want to be. It is about our aspirations and Mission10X is one of our aspirational projects. Mission10X aims at promoting systemic
changes to current teaching-learning paradigms in engineering education in collaboration
with the academia. Source: Address by Premji, Chairman, Wipro at the launch of
Mission10X, in Bangalore.
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