Even though India's Engineering colleges produce a lot of graduates every year, it has been noted that many of them do lack communication skills. They remain unemployable without further training. Hence, many corporations have started establishing special training centers known as"finishing schools" to help them to acquire communication sills.
Here are a few comments from Tim Sullivan, the Associated Press writer on the fresh grduates coming from India's technical schools:
"Indian schools churn out 400,000 new engineers, the core of the high-tech industry, every year--but as few as 100,000 are actually ready to join the job world.Graduates are leaving universities that are mired in theory classes, and sometimes so poorly funded they don't have computer labs.Even students from the best colleges can be dulled by cram schools and left without the most basic communication skills...
The high-tech industry is expanding so fast that the population can't keep up with the demand for high-end workers.Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest soft ware company , hires around 3000 peple a month.The consulting firm,Accenture, plans to hire 8000 in the next six months and IBM says it will bring on more than 50,000 additional people in India by 2010.....As India's economy blossomed over 15 years, spawning a middle class desperate to push their children further up the economic ladder, the higher education system grew dramatically.The number of engineering colleges, for instance,has nearly tripled."
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