[Kictanet] Re: India's Weaknesses

[bitange at jambo.co.ke]

Hi Edith,
You must have been blogging.

Regards


Ndemo.


> Certainly, a great lesson to learn from.
>
> Thanks for sharing the article!
>
> At / À 12:56 PM 10/24/2006, bitange at jambo.co.ke wrote / a écrit:
>>Dear All,
>>I think there are good lessons to learn from the article below.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Ndemo.
>>
>>
>>October 17, 2006
>>Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India
>>By SOMINI SENGUPTA
>><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/somini_sengupta/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
>>
>>TIRUCHENGODE, India
>><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>
>>— As its technology companies soar to the outsourcing skies, India is
>>bumping up against an improbable challenge. In a country once regarded as
>>a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers,
>>a shortage looms.
>>
>>India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last
>>count. But their competence has become the issue.
>>
>>A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of
>>Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in four
>>engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the
>>required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a
>> team
>>or deliver basic oral presentations.
>>
>>The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college
>>education in India and the galloping pace of the country's service-driven
>>economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China's. The
>> software
>>and service companies provide technology services to foreign companies,
>>many of them based in the United States. Software exports alone expanded
>>by 33 percent in the last year.
>>
>>The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with
>> such
>>demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most
>> selective
>>universities generate too few graduates, and new private colleges are
>>producing graduates of uneven quality.
>>
>>Many fear that the labor pinch may signal bottlenecks in other parts of
>>the economy. It is already being felt in the information technology
>>sector.
>>
>>With the number of technology jobs expected to nearly double to 1.7
>>million in the next four years, companies are scrambling to find fresh
>>engineering talent and to upgrade the schools that produce it.
>>
>>Some companies are training faculty members themselves, offering courses
>>tailored to industry needs and improving college labs and libraries. They
>>are rushing to get first choice of would-be engineers long before they
>>have completed their course work. And they are fanning out to small,
>>remote colleges that almost no one had heard of before. The country's
>> most
>>successful technology concerns can no longer afford to hire only
>>
>>
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