Friday, August 31, 2012

Education System and Our role


What are we trying to develop? A white collar ” worker”?
Currently there are so many engineering colleges that people have started joking on the situation.
Some of the colleges are not getting students to fill the vacant seats no matter how much low criteria they are keeping.
The increase in number of colleges created an competition in colleges not in terms of Quality of education but they have started a Rat Race. The Race of placement, they want to show that most of the students are getting hired and we are developing them to be “Industry Compatible”.  For getting placement they have started conducting various activities like “Aptitude Training”. Does anyone know why IT industry started taking “Aptitude Test”? You will know only when you enters into the industry. People (not real software engineers) say that you come from any background, you can become Software Engineer. Is that true? Can 4 years of engineering course be replaced with 4 months testing class? How many engineers in Indian IT industry are “designing” the software system? I have coated “designing” not coding the ready-made design, nor testing not just maintaining? What we want to achieve? Will that help us in our vision 2020? Or we will be just coders and testers and managing and supporting other countries?
Unfortunately, education system has became just a business, everybody is trying to show that they are doing good for the students but at the bottom of the heart, they know they are just spoiling it. Everybody is safe keeping themselves in safe position.
So what is the remedy? Can we change the system just in a day? The answer is “No”.
Experienced engineers should come forward to tell these students that how industry works and what they (students) need to do to become a REAL ENGINEER.
I have already started it. When are you going to start?

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