[Kictanet] Re: India's Weaknesses

Wed Oct 25 17:35:49 EAT 2006

Waudo,

could u please sambaza(share) the results of this Survey
done by CSK.  I can imagine it would be interesting (and
important) reading.

walu.

--- waudo at signet.co.ke wrote:

> Thanks to PS Ndemo for bringing this out. As for Wafula's
> question, the
> work force survey undertaken by the CSK earlier this year
> revealed that
> there is very little linkage between what the ICT
> training institutions
> (including Universities) are producing and the
> requirements of the
> industry either now or in the foreseeable future.
> Certainly there appear
> to be no mechanisms to facilitate such linkage. Perhaps
> something could be
> done now before we find ourselves in India's position.
> 
> 
> Kind Regards
> Waudo Siganga
> 
> On Wed, October 25, 2006 9:22 am, TONY WAFULA wrote:
> > Good lesson , though wonder whether as a country we are
> ready to address
> > manpower shortage in this area. Just the other day
> Safaricom's Micheal
> > Joseph was lamenting about the same...are we checking
> what our
> > Universities are offering in relation to our projected
> needs?
> >
> >   Regards
> >
> >   Wafula
> >
> > bitange at jambo.co.ke wrote:
> >   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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>TIRUCHENGODE, India
> >>>
> >>>— 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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