Are you keeping track of the education scene in India?
This is one amazing growth story.
I am sure that you already know so many more IITs will start very soon.
But the educational institutes offering Engineering and all other bachelor and post graduate degrees have mushroomed beyond imagination. When Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) offered me Visiting Professor assignment, I was thinking Delhi probably will have a maximum of a dozen Management Schools offering MBA/PGDM degrees. (Just compare with Toronto and it looks right). But when I landed in BIMTECH which is in Greater Noida, only a part of National Capital Region (NCR), I was astonished to know that in Greater Noida itself there are 5 Knowledge Parks with about 160 colleges and almost every college is offering MBA/PGDM courses. Each college has a campus of minimum of about 10 acres land. Already about 100000 students are enrolled and the number is expected to grow to about 200,000 in next few years.
There are lot and lots of opportunities of training assignments in India. If you have some exceptional skills that can be offered in India in the form of training programs then please resond to this blog with your comments and email me your resume with proposed training offers at ashokr@erplabs.ca
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How about offering online courses through self paced learning and video lectures etc. That way some working professionals in US/Canada might be interested. It would be difficult to find professionals to leave their jobs for few months to go to India to teach. Had they considered India or teaching, they would have not crossed the borders or wouldn't have worked outside academia.
ReplyDeleteI could not think of any company which will allow 4 months leave, let along 4 weeks.
On the otherhand, we we don't want free floating people to teach do we ? Because they are available dimes a dozen in India itself.
There are two points I want to make here -
1) We need a way to get working professionals (practitioners) to teach/contribute technology or management.
2) Lets make it easy for people who like to live outside India to contribute.
3) Play the economics - ensure people get compensated fairly. One of the root cause we do not get sufficiently competent teachers is poor compensation in academia in India and elsewhere(contrary to the existing notion, a PhD degree alone doesn't make one competent in technology and management profession, nor in teaching, we need people who knows the profession well, knows what is relevant and know how various people learn)
On the other hand I guess you can get some people to teach/contribute part time, if there is some compensation. Thanks to the economic bust in north America, so that in last two years many people are looking for money (~15% of CA tech people are without proper employment).
Now that, India's compensation level is nearly 70% of that of US and 100% that of Canada, so now there is a economic justification, for some kind of reverse osmosis (if not brain drain)through electronic media, if they get paid.
Getting working professionals to give a lecture or two is fine but longer duration training must be left to good trainers who are able to get the message across which is the most important aspect. A knowledgeable person is not necessarily able to impart good training.
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