[Kictanet] Re: India's Weaknesses

Wed Oct 25 19:42:12 EAT 2006

The work force survey report is a large document but let me see if it can
be placed on the web site. Will revert.

Kind Regards
Waudo

On Wed, October 25, 2006 10:35 am, John Walubengo wrote:
> 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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