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Member • Jul 24, 2013
Member • Jul 24, 2013
Administrator • Jul 24, 2013
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Member • Jul 24, 2013
What then, according to you, is the leading cause of unemployability?I really agree with this.
There are a lot of things I'd blame for this unhealthy trend.
Up until a few years ago, if you couldn't pursue engineering after Class 12, you could always enroll in the Industrial Training Institutes.
They'd train you, impart specialised job skills and give you a diploma, after which you could apply for a job and eventually become a supervisor, if not an engineer. You'd be a blue or grey-collared employee, but a skilled one at that.
Today, however, the ITIs don't get enough students, because they are lured by new engineering colleges that promise to make them engineers.
Ten years ago, even a kid who got 33 per cent in Class 10 could go to an ITI and become a technician or a plumber.
The fact of the matter is that if you got 33 per cent, maybe you did not get the right educational exposure, or you were not academically bright, but at least you stood a good chance of becoming a skilled plumber.
Today, those same kids are going to an NIIT because they teach programming, which according to many is a better career option than plumbing.
Frankly, as long as you pay them the fee, NIIT doesn’t give a damn about your career. They will give you some form of diploma or degree certificate at the end of six or eight months. They are not exercising any quality control.
Have you ever heard of anyone who has enrolled in a course at NIIT and failed? It's a commercial get-ahead venture, NIIT being just an indicator of similar training institutes in our country.
At the end of the day, the student who was destined to be a plumber or a skilled technician ends up aspiring to be a programmer.
In the process, we have not only lost good programmers, we have also lost good plumbers. So you have problems at both ends.
Member • Jul 25, 2013