Re: [MTC Global] SKILL INDIA ~ Facts and Figures

Thanks Professor Stephen.

How can skills be developed? It is through training, practice and then turning it to be habitual.

The UG students spend 10 years for SSC, 2 years for HSC and 3-5 years for UG. Still the students show  poor performance in skills like communication. I know a few PhDs who cannot write a single page without any grammar error or  a PhD in mathematics cannot ad 4 digits 10 numbers!

Where is the scope for building skills?  To me,  stakeholders like faculty, staff and administrators can certainly improve the scenario. Communication must be the  very breath of institute, primary to tertiary.

In our Institute we have a PhD in English literature and was teaching communication skill. Syllabus is fantastic but actual delivery performance is very disappointing. The subject has only submission of assignments having 50 marks. I was taken aback when I went through the submission. I asked the faculty to bring  at least 5 documents readily available in the institute of each like Notices, Letters to industry,, communication with university, calling quotations and appointment orders.  We studied the documents thoroughly, analyzed them and then after one month put before the students for improving the drafts. We had a wonderful outcome. Such simple measures can bring a big dividend. If it  is made a part and parcel of our routine teaching-learning process from primary to tertiary there is no need to join any coaching class or special training. This is exactly what is called as outcome based education. As no one has taught me to breathe, or mother taught to love her daughter/son,  so also is the case of other  skills like communication, etc.


Regards,

Dr. P H Waghodekar, PhD (Egg), IIT,KGP, IE&M, 1985,
Advisor (HR), IBS & PME (PG)
Marathwada Institute of Technology,
NH 211, Beed by pass road,
Aurangabad: 431010 (Maharashtra) INDIA.
(O) 02402375113 (M) 7276661925
E-Mail: waghodekar@rediffmail.com
Website: www.mit.asia
and
Chairman, Advisory Board, MTC Global, Bangalore.


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From: Stephen Narayanan
Sent: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 11:50:50
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Subject: Re: [MTC Global] SKILL INDIA ~ Facts and Figures

As one of our esteemed MTC colleague shared his observation that our skilling programs/process were lopsided. If we have to build a Pyramid, we have to start from the base and then build upon it step by step. Likewise the grooming of people should start from school level. However with the constraint of a huge population and 28 states where the language and tradition are also diverse and different, the challenges are no doubt very high. English Grammar would help steady the learning program throughout would be best learnt during schooling in class - 3, where nouns, verbs,adverbs, adjectives are taught and how they are to be used in formation of a sentence. If that stage is missed out and student manages to get through schooling and then wants to pursue higher studies...he/she would find it very difficult. During my interaction with HR Executives/Manager's in the run up to Placement process, I have come across several examples of badly written mails... too many errors in a few lines of communication. Though Southern India takes pride in highest literacy, how good would it be if the communication is improper?

The inability of students to speak on a particular topic for even two minutes has left many students sidelined during selection process in corporate. An M.D. of a very big Real Estate Firm whom I met told me that they had Marketing team handpicked from elite institutions and their spoken english was very good but when communicating in writing... they were terrible. He was looking for a training program for his executives from elite institute to re-learn written communication and that was a process of starting from the bottom ( as Khanna Sir has mentioned ).

Maybe our Education system needs to incorporate more of practical application processes besides the theories.

Regards,

Stephen

Stephen Narayanan

Freelance Educational Consultant/Corporate Training facilitator

Mob.:-9868386192

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Prabhakar Waghodekar <waghodekar@rediffmail.com> wrote:

Dear All,

India has the second greatest skill shortage in the world. India has population over 125 crore and USA has 31.89 crore (2014) . Skill shortage in absolute number is much much higher in India  than that of USA, a state certainly not of happiness.  

If India wants to make up good for this shortage , many many jobs are on the anvil and if shortage is reduced just imagine the addition to the the job creation and of course to the national wealth, provided.....

Regards,

Dr. P H Waghodekar, PhD (Egg), IIT,KGP, IE&M, 1985,
Advisor (HR), IBS & PME (PG)
Marathwada Institute of Technology,
NH 211, Beed by pass road,
Aurangabad: 431010 (Maharashtra) INDIA.
(O) 02402375113 (M) 7276661925
E-Mail: waghodekar@rediffmail.com
Website: www.mit.asia
and
Chairman, Advisory Board, MTC Global, Bangalore.


Engineering & Management Education: An Engine of Prosperity.
Classroom teaching must match with Boardroom needs!


From: Chitra Devi <chitradv68@gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 08:21:03
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] SKILL INDIA ~ Facts and Figures

Dear MTCians,

As a Indian we must feel happy that we are in second place. When we compare to American we must feel great since we're in developing nation.

With regards 

Dr.S.Chitra Devi. MBA ., Ph D.,

Prof in MBA.

On Mar 24, 2017 10:20 AM, "Dr. S. S. Dey" <drshibshankar@gmail.com> wrote:

​Best Regards,

Dr..S.S.Dey

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