T-Schools Should Contribute To The Growth Of The Technology Required For The 21st Century Industries

T-Schools should add value in offering human resource to the industry

- Faisal Kawoosa

Soon after the sprouting emergence of IT and ITeS in India, the importance of T-Schools was recognized. Private sector saw this as an opportunity area and alonsde the government run technology institutes a new breed of private institutes emerged on the educational map of India.

Cities like Bengaluru (Bangalore at that time), Hyderabad and Chennai saw the maximum concentration of these T-Schools which contributed significantly in supplying the much required manpower that the exponentially growing industry was scouting for. The concept of campus apprenticeships and placements were introduced in India on a large scale and the industry-academia connect got established.

This was a fundamental paradigm shift in the educational, especially professional education sector in India. Now the end-users (MNCs and others) of this manpower had a role to play in how the education should be imparted.

Technological education has come a long way over these 25 years or so. So has the engagement and the bonding between the industry and academia. This means that the technical education in the country had to reorient itself and go beyond the academics and the infrastructure. While academics and infrastructure remain the core strengths of any educational setup, having a decisive role in the quality of the professionals an educational institution can churn out, which are employable; the fact remains that the industry expectations have moved much beyond this. The good point is that academia has been cognizant of these changes and even been trying to reincarnate the educational framework so that the students get the best possible economic engagement by being a value-added resource to the organisation that hires these resources.