<div>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? </div> <div> </div> <div>Regards</div> <div> </div> <div>Wafula<BR><BR><B><I>bitange@jambo.co.ke</I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi Edith,<BR>You must have been blogging.<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR><BR>Ndemo.<BR><BR><BR>> Certainly, a great lesson to learn from.<BR>><BR>> Thanks for sharing the article!<BR>><BR>> At / � 12:56 PM 10/24/2006, bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote / a �crit:<BR>>>Dear All,<BR>>>I think there are good lessons to learn from the article below.<BR>>><BR>>>Regards<BR>>><BR>>>Ndemo.<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>>October 17,
2006<BR>>>Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India<BR>>>By SOMINI SENGUPTA<BR>>><HTTP: index.html?inline="nyt-per" somini_sengupta s people timestopics reference top topics.nytimes.com><BR>>><BR>>>TIRUCHENGODE, India<BR>>><HTTP: index.html?inline="nyt-geo" top topics.nytimes.com india countriesandterritories international news><BR>>>� As its technology companies soar to the outsourcing skies, India is<BR>>>bumping up against an improbable challenge. In a country once regarded as<BR>>>a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers,<BR>>>a shortage looms.<BR>>><BR>>>India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last<BR>>>count. But their competence has become the issue.<BR>>><BR>>>A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of<BR>>>Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in
four<BR>>>engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the<BR>>>required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a<BR>>> team<BR>>>or deliver basic oral presentations.<BR>>><BR>>>The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college<BR>>>education in India and the galloping pace of the country's service-driven<BR>>>economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China's. The<BR>>> software<BR>>>and service companies provide technology services to foreign companies,<BR>>>many of them based in the United States. Software exports alone expanded<BR>>>by 33 percent in the last year.<BR>>><BR>>>The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with<BR>>> such<BR>>>demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most<BR>>> selective<BR>>>universities generate too few graduates, and
new private colleges are<BR>>>producing graduates of uneven quality.<BR>>><BR>>>Many fear that the labor pinch may signal bottlenecks in other parts of<BR>>>the economy. It is already being felt in the information technology<BR>>>sector.<BR>>><BR>>>With the number of technology jobs expected to nearly double to 1.7<BR>>>million in the next four years, companies are scrambling to find fresh<BR>>>engineering talent and to upgrade the schools that produce it.<BR>>><BR>>>Some companies are training faculty members themselves, offering courses<BR>>>tailored to industry needs and improving college labs and libraries. They<BR>>>are rushing to get first choice of would-be engineers long before they<BR>>>have completed their course work. And they are fanning out to small,<BR>>>remote colleges that almost no one had heard of before. The country's<BR>>> most<BR>>>successful
technology concerns can no longer afford to hire only<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>>_______________________________________________<BR>>>kictanet mailing list<BR>>>kictanet@kictanet.or.ke<BR>>>http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet<BR>>><BR>>>Please unsubscribe or change your options at<BR>>>http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/eadera%40idrc.or.ke<BR>><BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> kictanet mailing list<BR>> kictanet@kictanet.or.ke<BR>> http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet<BR>><BR>> Please unsubscribe or change your options at<BR>> http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bitange%40jambo.co.ke<BR>><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>kictanet mailing list<BR>kictanet@kictanet.or.ke<BR>http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet<BR><BR>Please unsubscribe or change your options at
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