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Relevantly skill-sets for our students: Greater
dialogue between leaders of Business and Academia
Addressing a select gathering of
business leaders at the Rai Foundation Delhi campus, Prof. Vinay Rai urged
on the importance of greater interaction between the industry and academia
to address the issue of escalating graduate unemployability, owing to
lack of relevant skill-sets (that are not being being delivered by
the traditional higher education system, even in face of the new and pressing new
demands of globalization and internationalism). He cited a recent
TOI report
which states that "out of the 9.28 million students in higher education,
only 17 percent are pursuing professional streams while the remaining
83 percent are in conventional higher education streams, i.e B.Sc, B.Com
and BA degree programs." To correct this imbalance afflicting business
and academia, says Vinay Rai, not only do we need to restructure our curricula,
train our teachers, and incarease infrastructure support, but also
need to bring in dynamic business leaders and corporate work-ethics in
the field of education. The work-culture in our schools and colleges needs
to become more dynamic, making each and every team member a partner in
change and action. Citing the examples of IT giants Infosys
, Wipro , TCS
, HCL
, Satyam , Vinay Rai
said that the successes shown by the leaders and teams in these world-class
organisations could be replicated in the education sector as well, if
only the education-establishement were to be less loathe to change, and
more responsive to new and alternative ways of approaching university
education.
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