The T-School Survey: Gearing Up To The New Market Realities

In India, the skills debate is raging for a while. It has become more pronounced when a rapidly changing dynamic industry like ICT going through severe headwinds in the form of a structural recession- changing job roles, skills sets getting obsolete, contraction of market and business volume leading to cyclical unemployment waves. And since then the ICT industry is grappling with change and more recently the ‘Digital Disruption’. Are our ‘Tech Schools’ geared for this disruption?

- Shrikanth

Learning never stops, but the seeds of learnings were sowed at a very young age, and that’s what we call education that in turn becomes a lifelong learning experience. To aptly quote what Issac Newton said: “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

It is that discovery of new things powers knowledge, driven by education, delivered by our educational institutions. The 2018 edition of the Dataquest-CMR Best Tech School Survey is all about taking a deep dive into the state of ICT engineering education in the country. As usual, the survey has its share of ups and downs in terms of surveyed institutions rank, their standing across various key parameters like : Academic Environment, Infrastructure, Industry Interface, and Placement.

FOCUS ON INDUSTRY INTERFACE& PLACEMENTS

In India, the skills debate is raging for a while. It has become more pronounced when a rapidly changing industry like ICT going through severe headwinds in the form of a structural recession- changing job roles, obsolete skills sets, contraction of market and business volume leading to cyclical unemployment waves.

As we take a granular look at the ICT industry over the last 2 years, many of these structural recessionary deliverables have impacted the very soul of the industry. Moreover the industry also need to combat the impact of globally disruptive protectionist events in the recent past like BREXIT, and the anti-outsourcing and anti-immigration narrative advanced by the new Republican government voted to office in the United States.