LINKING THE GAP

BETWEEN
ACADEMIA &
INDUSTRY
By (Er) Soumya Upadhyay
Director, Eternal Infraheight Pvt Ltd
Founder, Make You Skilled
Agenda
01. Between academia 02. Approaches
& Industry
Competencies
Facts
Mindset
Challenges
Problem based learning
Increasing exposure to
Industry

03. Competencies 04. Mindset 05. Takeaways for budding graduates

Methodological Self Trust
Growth
Social Growth mindset
Fixed
Personal Problem Solving Skills
Self - Learning

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Facts

• Survey reveals 33% educated youth are

unemployed due to lack of future skills, despite
getting a degree. - A studyFitness
by edtech and skill development company
Mantra
ImaginXP

• Almost 75% said that training in futuristic skills

could have helped them in bolstering their
professional career.

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Unemployment rate rises

Fitness Mantra

The data shows that

unemployment has increased
for all, irrespective of gender,
area, and education level.
(Source: Lok Sabha, Unemployment rate rises with
higher educational level, especially for women: Govt
data | Jobs News,The Indian Express)

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Share of unemployment across India in 2019,
by educational qualification

Source: © Statista 2021

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Challenges

• All graduates do not get jobs in industry right after their graduation.
• The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) statistics show that the
enrolment of youth for technical courses in India is lower than the available
capacity and less than 40% of the graduating students get jobs in industry AICTE, 2016.
Placement, Graduates, Enrolments and Intake Statistics of Engineering Education in India

• Education System : The current academic system is mainly not able to cope with the
industrial requirements
• In the current curriculum of engineering education, the project-based learning makes up 30 % of
the time and only 30 % of the marks. However, the remaining 70 % of the marks are still
awarded by traditional written or oral examination methods.

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The
engineering/technical
education system in
India

It provides a general overview of

the technical education system at
various entry levels into industry;
further, the additional training
costs and duration of graduates
entering companies are shown.
It is conspicuous from Figure that
the training costs incurred to the
industry for the newly recruited
graduate engineers at level four
are very high and that training is
time consuming

The engineering/technical education system in India

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Challenges

• Students are not readily employable for the industries, as they miss e.g.
methodological and personal competencies related to
• self-reliant
• problem-solving
• interdisciplinary
• out-of-the-box thinking
• one of the reasons for the lack of competency could be the highly influenced
decisions at the time of admission of students.

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New approaches

• Developing the competencies

• Mind Set
• Problem based learning
• Promoting internships

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Competencies

• Methodological : the transfer of theoretical knowledge into real application-based

problems
• Social : Dealing with people; communication
• Personal : Self-discipline; presentation skills; positive work attitude

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 MINDSET
Internal dialogue--the ongoing conversation
we all have with our mindset--is the driving
force behind every success story, and
behind every failure.

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Problem based learning

AS REAL-WORLD SIMULATIONS PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING SKILLS

WITH NO RIGHT OR WRONG INCLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF
ANSWER. PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS.

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Increasing exposure to Industry

Internship program
Industrial projects (real world challenges)
Academia-industry interaction (case studies, visits etc)

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Takeaways for budding graduates

• Self Trust : believe in your capabilities (this will help to develop competencies)
• Growth mindset : Be positive, keep learning
• Problem Solving Skills : Don’t escape from problems, face it
• Self – Learning : try to develop self-directed learning skills

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