The education system in India is mostly of academic interest and had never been an industry based one. With the result, the graduates coming out of the institutions or the universities do not have the proper training to directly work in an industry or business houses. The industry has to waste time and energy to train these fresh graduates and to mould them to their requirements. What was more important was not only the question of "employment" but the "employability" of the new graduates. Realising this problem, some of the business houses have now come forward either to set up their own academy by offering courses to train the fresh graduates as per their requirements before they are absorbed by them in the main stream or to have tie up with various universities by offering the certificate courses of their requirement. Some of the business houses like TCS, Infosys etc. are planning to launch their academies which will take up the fresh graduates from different disciples and train them as per the courses they will be offering. The freshers will be paid the stipend during the training period and thereafter they will be absorbed in their companies after completion of the course. Other business houses are negotiating tie up with different universities. In United States and other western countries, the research programmes at Doctorate level are always industry based and the projects are sponsored and funded by the business houses. The research thus carried out is directly linked to the industry. The business houses stand benefited because they do not have to spend time,money and energy on these projects. The student by doing the research for a business house gets directly absorbed in the company after the research is completed. In India the research programmes are mostly of academic interest and do not have proper backing or the funding from the business houses. This scenario requires some change and the researches should be made more industry based to make them fruitful which will be definitely beneficial to the industries.The step being taken up by some corporate houses is quite laudable and more and more business houses should come forward to make our academic courses more viable and fruitful for the industrial growth. Definitely, we are now moving in the right direction. Labels: Disaster, Education, labour |
