General

Meeting emerging industry trends and needs is a challenge that educational institutes face.

For instance, a large number of engineering students are unfit for employment.

Did you know that 92% of employees in India suffer from a lack of industry skills, and two-thirds feel they have been personally impacted by such a gap?

However, technology continues to outpace the ability of educational institutes to teach them to students.

This can be addressed through institute-industry collaboration. In this blog post, we discuss how this benefits all stakeholders involved.

So, let’s begin!

Challenges That Institutes Face In Imparting Employable Skills

There are many reasons why educational institutes are unable to bridge the gap when training students in contemporary skills:

• The traditional approach focuses more on scoring high instead of hands-on skill and tech learning
• There is a lack of up-to-date infrastructure and curriculum that supports innovation
• Faculty is not up to date with new age skills due to lack of exposure
• In-demand skills and courses are unavailable

Why There Is a Need For Early Digital Learning

In the post-pandemic era, students’ ability to expand skill sets gives them a competitive edge.

This enhances the need for industry and institutes to come together and:

• Align engineering education with global trends
• Develop modern curricula that can be extended to university requirements
• Upgrade curricula to include AI, ML, IoT, robotics, cloud computing, data analytics, augmented reality, virtual reality, and cybersecurity
• Organise student induction programs to enable early orientation to these subjects
• Enable students to participate in industry hackathons
• Conduct industry internships
• Organise certification programs on the latest technologies

Benefits of Institute-Industry Collaboration

For Institutes