Institutes should lay stress on the Industry-Academia partnership for the success of the students

Institutes should lay stress on the Industry-Academia partnership for the success of the students

On Friday, AICTE chairman Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe laid stress on the need of increasing the interaction between industry and academic institutes and said “it is the responsibility of the industries to associate themselves with academic institutes throughout the year to enhance employability and teachers should be well equipped for the holistic development of the students”. Most of the fresh graduates from the colleges are not employable because there is no experience-based learning in the institutes and conducting some random seminars now and then will not solve the problem. The only way to overcome the problem is to increase the strategic collaboration between the industries and academic institutes, he said. "The students often fail to answer during interviews as there is no experience-based learning. Just conducting seminars is not enough, there should be industry-institute collaborations throughout the year," Mr Sahasrabudhe said in an interactive session. It is important for industries to become an active part of the curriculum design and support laboratory facilities, funding centers of excellence, arranging industry visits by the college students, and even partial off-loading of Research and Development projects to colleges. They should not visit only once a year to the colleges for placement activities. "Basic foundation has to be created in the institution and specialized learning has to happen in the respective industries. More than specific skill gaps academia should worry about generic skill gaps like communication skills and so on," he said.

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