Industry involvement in academia in India is almost nil. Industry has neither any knowledge of academics nor has any plans to even get to know what is happening out there except making a constant demand that the students coming out must be readily employable. What is the contribution they make to make the students employable is anybody’s guess. Academic institutions are competing among themselves now. This should change. Industry must compete to grab the attention of educational institutions. Industry Institutional interaction must happen at different levels. A. At faculty level, B. at student level. Enough has been said on these.At SMOT, we have allocated 25% of the courses to be handled by professionals from industry and we pay them sumptuously. Get them to teach, everything else will fall in place – projects, placements, curriculum update, professional approach and so on.
Aug 19
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:39 am
its nice to hear that 25% of the syllabus will be thought by industry professionals and i am quite sure that it will be of great use to us(students),since we will get familiarized about the industry requirements and so as to bridge the gap between theory and practicality; which will obviously improve our employability.but can this compensate for insight experience?