Ranjith’s Castle

Morning news says that a few colleges in the state were raided for the poor infrastructure. [new Times of India ].

Further what needed to be raided :

• Standard of the education provided in the colleges.
• Interaction of the colleges with the Industry.
• Quality of the teachers and teaching.
• Other stuffs taught beyond the subject.
• and a lot more with respect to the college.

Further more the syllabus taught at this level itself needs a upgrade year on year.

Currently reading a book on what is not taught in B’Schools by Meenakshi Radhakrishnan. B’Schools which is having a lot of interaction with the industry itself is missing a lot of practical lessons for its students.

A Big question “Whether the professional course graduates coming out of college  ready to take up the challenges they are thrown from the industry?”

Cheers - Ranjith

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