There is a major gap between what industry wants, what the education institutes can provide and the type of graduates that are produced. A round table approach is the best approach.
Experienced business professional and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience in strategy, finance, operations and business development. Last worked as Managing Consultant (Strategy & Transformation) in retail sector with a top-most consulting firm. Shruti has worked in different locations worldwide before joining starting his MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), Sydney.
Shruti is an Electronics Engineer from one of the top colleges in India and consults to IBM India for their strategy and business development program. Shruti has a keen interest in vocational education where training courses are developed in consultation with the industry bodies and skill specific graduates are produced that are readily deployed with minimal training and development effort. Ideally he would like to see the approach like Australia where the student completes atleast 50%. of their course work hands-on.