[Kictanet] Re: India's Weaknesses

[David Sparrow Malaba]

Dear brother Walubengo,
We shall Zambaza next week through this channel to all
members.

Thanks

David S. Malaba
Computer Society of Kenya
 



--- John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com> 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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