I wanted to start blogging a couple of years ago due to some reasons. Over the past 2 years the reasons grew in number but never had the initiative to start writing. Now it has come to a stage where i cannot hold myself anymore.
Last week, I saw an article in "The Hindu" about most of the first year students in engineering colleges in Tamilnadu failed to clear the fundamentals of Computing paper. As reasons the writer (or who ever expressed their views) quoted
In the website of "The Hindu" a dozen of people submitted their comments on the article. And in a nutshell these were the views of the readers
etc.
I also posted a comment but it could not get through moderation I suppose! My comment was on the lines of "Why are they having a written examination where people have to write programs?
If someone had studied Computer Science in the school final (higher secondary) I can guarantee that they will not do well in Programming assuming college education is better"
Definitely this was not something expected as a comment. The problem is that this is cryptic and if understood cynical. So, I did not worry about not getting this reach people.
Why people are flocking to Engineering colleges today?
Is that because there are thousands of engineering colleges all over India? (There are 500+ engineering colleges in Tamilnadu alone)
Colleges are entering guinness book of world records for getting 600+ candidates selected into a single company!
Job Guarantee is what is driving all these people!
Our dream software companies never looked at Electronics graduates back in 1992 in my final year(College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University). The same companies are recruiting 500+ even if the total of Computer Science and Information technology branches pit together will not reach 150. In reality they recruit even Cvil and Mechanical engineering students (for testing or some other non programming tasks).
This has a cascading (bad) effect in our society. In the last 15 years we have stopped talented engineers doing masters and PhD and go back to teaching in Engineering colleges.
Now, we are recruiting almost all the people out of engineering colleges (for guinness record) and made a lot of people start engineering colleges. Almost 6 years back itself the total number of seats in engineering colleges were enough to take all people passed out of Higher Secondary with minimal qualification. So, nobody goes to study science subjects these days. So, no good teachers in the school also.
Now itself i have seen some engineering graduates teach computer subjects in the schools.
Future is definitely not going to be good for students and the industry!
Hope i have given a message here.
I started this blog with title "Why this blog?" and I am ending this with a famous question
Why this kolaveri?
Last week, I saw an article in "The Hindu" about most of the first year students in engineering colleges in Tamilnadu failed to clear the fundamentals of Computing paper. As reasons the writer (or who ever expressed their views) quoted
- Many students studied in Tamil (local language) medium where as English is the medium of instruction in Engineering colleges
- Students prepared using a question bank of programs. But questions were not from the bank
In the website of "The Hindu" a dozen of people submitted their comments on the article. And in a nutshell these were the views of the readers
- Why so many people join engineering colleges with out understanding whether it is manageable for them
- I did not study Electronics in my school but i did well in my college
- These things are not excuses
etc.
I also posted a comment but it could not get through moderation I suppose! My comment was on the lines of "Why are they having a written examination where people have to write programs?
If someone had studied Computer Science in the school final (higher secondary) I can guarantee that they will not do well in Programming assuming college education is better"
Definitely this was not something expected as a comment. The problem is that this is cryptic and if understood cynical. So, I did not worry about not getting this reach people.
Why people are flocking to Engineering colleges today?
Is that because there are thousands of engineering colleges all over India? (There are 500+ engineering colleges in Tamilnadu alone)
Colleges are entering guinness book of world records for getting 600+ candidates selected into a single company!
Job Guarantee is what is driving all these people!
Our dream software companies never looked at Electronics graduates back in 1992 in my final year(College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University). The same companies are recruiting 500+ even if the total of Computer Science and Information technology branches pit together will not reach 150. In reality they recruit even Cvil and Mechanical engineering students (for testing or some other non programming tasks).
This has a cascading (bad) effect in our society. In the last 15 years we have stopped talented engineers doing masters and PhD and go back to teaching in Engineering colleges.
Now, we are recruiting almost all the people out of engineering colleges (for guinness record) and made a lot of people start engineering colleges. Almost 6 years back itself the total number of seats in engineering colleges were enough to take all people passed out of Higher Secondary with minimal qualification. So, nobody goes to study science subjects these days. So, no good teachers in the school also.
Now itself i have seen some engineering graduates teach computer subjects in the schools.
Future is definitely not going to be good for students and the industry!
Hope i have given a message here.
I started this blog with title "Why this blog?" and I am ending this with a famous question
Why this kolaveri?
Excellent post...
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with Bala. Firstly there are enough number of IT/CS graduates across TamilNadu for these IT companies to go and select. First they should stop taking Mechanical/Civil/EEE etc. students for doing software/testing and other mundane work. There is good demand for non-IT graduates in their respective domain itself. For example we recently concluded a Employability Bridge job fair in Tirchy where 800 students came and about 250 got placed. Out of this only about 70 got placed in IT/ITES companies. Rest of them were placed in non-IT companies (Manufacturing, Construction, Embedded systems etc.).
ReplyDeleteNice post, I like your finishing touch ;)
ReplyDeleteDid you watched the Tamil movie, Dhoni ? That movie is not entirely correct. But some of the scenes were great & thought provoking about our current educational system.