India Needs Industry Academia Interface to Develop Enterprising Skills in Our Youth

A common trend is seen these days that graduates when land a job for themselves go through a training of 4-6 months. This training is job-centric to enhance the employ’s capabilities as per company’s needs. How convenient would it have been, if before getting placed, during the degree curriculum itself, students got industry internship and work experience? This would be very beneficial if the industry professional themselves would come and train students under a project.

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Employees with enterprise and entrepreneurial skills are an asset to a company because they spot gaps in the market, innovate and are commercially minded. A sound business sense only comes when during course curriculum industry interface is provided by the college by culminating industry internship into academics. Due to this the students will get aware of corporate culture. They will get exposed to corporate essential thinking. They will not only be studying topics in theory but they will apply that knowledge too. In this way the course curriculum will also be at par with current trends in market. They will be able to train students as per company requirements. Surely after such interfaces there will be value addition for every student. There scope of career and thinking will widen which will be useful directly to country’s growth. When a student will carry with him that exposure, then getting a job in this competitive world will become easy. Not only the employ is a beneficiary here but the employers are also at an advantage, as they do not have to invest in the training required for naïve employees.

The world is moving at a cheetah’s pace and it is time that we understand the importance of market experts who can contribute to their respective fields. Just like a doctor who does not operate a patient before practicing on sample bodies for almost 100 or more times and only observes and assists operations in the initial days. Any graduate like Engineers, Architects etc should be given a curriculum with well-planned industry interface so as to gear up for potential work and career prospects in the real world.