Kiran Gali's List: Industry-Academecia

• “The Campus Career Portal Initiative proposes an efficient, scalable, and  distributed system of matching students, academia and industry to achieve  industry-funded research projects and industry demand recruitment. It will also  generate invaluable statistics, and effectively match graduates within their  respective industries with pinpoint accuracy.”

• One of the reasons can be observed easily - only 17 per cent of the relevant age  group in India goes on to undertake higher education.
• than 2.5 million university graduates, of which 20% are engineering majors.
• only 25% of these technical graduates and approximately 15% of other graduates  are considered employable by the rapidly growing IT and ITeS companies.
• NASSCOM predicts that India's IT sector will face a shortfall of half a million  professionals by 2010
• NASSCOM'S IT Workforce Development (ITWD)
• accepted benchmarks like certifications and policy-level curriculum changes.
• The Cisco Networking Academy initiative, for instance, partners with over 190  educational institutions in India delivering
• Rajasthan Education Initiative (REI), a public private partnership that seeks to  accelerate IT education for teachers and school students through 32 Government  District Computer Educations Centers (DCEC) across the state.

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• reduce training costs for companies that hire them and fresh recruits can be  productive in a short span of time.
• learning skills, communication and collaboration, leadership, creative thinking  and problem-solving skills
• while technical educational institutions help graduate millions of students  every year their soft skills are extremely poor.

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