Skills Gap Between Students and Industry: How Can We Bridge This Divide Together?

Doing a study on the skills gap. Important feedback from the industry is required to ascertain the gap and ways to bridge the gap between academia and industry. Your assistance is solicited.

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Dear Arunish,

I have submitted the response. Most skills are interrelated; if one has to be learned, then the others also come along because, in isolation, no skill would make a real difference. Skills have to be inculcated to make a real change in students; it cannot be just a few hours of a standard module to show that the students have undergone a training program. This process cannot happen in a day, a week, or a month; it's a process.

All the best! Jyoti

Dear Arunish, this is in addition to what Jyoti has said. The lack of soft skills among students is an inherent problem of our education system. Hardly any efforts are made to build these skills within our education system, which is highly oriented towards theory papers. Consequently, the system tends to produce students who are overly focused on books, turning them into bookworms. This, in turn, has led to the proliferation of coaching centers in every nook and corner of most cities.

Therefore, it is not just a skills gap, but rather a skills valley that exists. The last sentence of Jyoti's reply is "And this can't happen in a day or a week or a month; it's a process." Indeed, this is a process that should start right at the primary level of school. The question then arises, who will take the initiative?

Thanks,

Dinesh Divekar