This problem seems to be universal. University has courses that have little alignment to what's required by the industry. Thats probably because the process that's required to have a course included in the syllabus is rather lengthy, you first have to get a consensus among officials and staff, followed by staff training then make it part of the syllabus. I have been part of a few syllabus review commitees and I remember recommending Ubuntu and Drupal to be included, only to be told that its difficult to get trainers! This approach to setting syllabus creates a deep void in learning, epsecially essentials of computer science like Databases, Algorithms etc. To address this several institutes have sprung up in this part of the world, offering short term courses that teach you MySQL, PHP, Python etc but then these institutes are driven by commercial considerations. They offer courses on subjects that create the most noise on Social Media. I was recently flodded with a lot of resumes from freshers who have done courses in Blockchain, AI and ML! As an enterprise application firm all that we look out for is people with full stack skills and a good knowledge of engineering processes like using GIT alas its a quite a struggle to identify and get the right talent considering that each college spews out about 500 students in computer science and related subjects.
As an experiment we have been working with a few colleges to allow their students to do their internship starting from their first year of technical education. We hope to see these initiatives bear the desired results four years from now.
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This problem seems to be universal. University has courses that have little alignment to what's required by the industry. Thats probably because the process that's required to have a course included in the syllabus is rather lengthy, you first have to get a consensus among officials and staff, followed by staff training then make it part of the syllabus. I have been part of a few syllabus review commitees and I remember recommending Ubuntu and Drupal to be included, only to be told that its difficult to get trainers! This approach to setting syllabus creates a deep void in learning, epsecially essentials of computer science like Databases, Algorithms etc. To address this several institutes have sprung up in this part of the world, offering short term courses that teach you MySQL, PHP, Python etc but then these institutes are driven by commercial considerations. They offer courses on subjects that create the most noise on Social Media. I was recently flodded with a lot of resumes from freshers who have done courses in Blockchain, AI and ML! As an enterprise application firm all that we look out for is people with full stack skills and a good knowledge of engineering processes like using GIT alas its a quite a struggle to identify and get the right talent considering that each college spews out about 500 students in computer science and related subjects.
As an experiment we have been working with a few colleges to allow their students to do their internship starting from their first year of technical education. We hope to see these initiatives bear the desired results four years from now.