Students down the South
I made a presentation at an Engineering College on SaaS Architecture and little deeper into the technical details of implementation of a SaaS Application. It was a group of lecturers and Final year students from four to five colleges around that place. I felt a large gap between the College education system and what industry needs. I believe that still we are teaching the old subjects which dates back to 1990s. No hands went up for a question like “What is blogging?”. Talking about SaaS and Web 2.0 for a crowd which does not know about blogging. No Questions were asked at the end or middle of the presentation. I am still not able to understand whether my day was spent useful or not ?
A Student told me that he has a laptop and a Free WI-Fi connection from his college hostel. The college provides a free browsing hour from 4 to 6 PM after college. Some questions, Are these connections used only for checking videos and mails and sending forwards?.
But on the contrary, when I went in for the blogcamp @ Anna University a couple of years ago, the students who visited were much knowledge about the happenings on the latest technology developments and had a great thirst for knowledge.
College staffs are working towards how to keep the student disciplined without talking to each other [esp. opposite sex] than concentrating on what is good for the students and taking one by one and getting them ready to lead the next generation technology.
Cheers - Ranjith
Muthukumaran M said,
September 1, 2009 @ 1:54 pm
Well observed Ranjith. That is one reason for which I was always determined to do my Engineering in chennai. When it comes to the amount of knowledge & exposure this city provides, no other place in our state cant even come closer. Though it might take a while to adapt to the fast-paced life style of chennai it provides abundant chances to learn things on your own. With a good friends circle one can reach greater heights here. Since then I always pressed my near and dear to continue their higher studies here. If every s/w engineer in town who hails from southern part of TN can go back to their alma mater to present what this city offers in terms of knowledge and opportunities then I hope good things will happen.
Muthu.
Selvi Nambivel said,
September 2, 2009 @ 12:02 am
@Muthu:
“That is one reason for which I was always determined to do my Engineering in chennai.When it comes to the amount of knowledge & exposure this city provides, no other place in our state cant even come closer ” !
~ not all colleges in chennai… Its mostly only with a few educational institutions.. Isnt PSG Kovai better than many colleges in chennai ?
Ranjith said,
September 2, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
@Selvi ,
I do accept that there are a few college which graduate better architects for the future. But the percentage of the few is very less.
Thanks,
Ranjith
Selvi Nambivel said,
October 1, 2009 @ 1:02 am
@Ranjith: I was just trying to say generalising is not good. I have met a LOT of people from other places in TN who are more updated than many in Chennai (Being a Chennaite myself, not feeling so good about it!)