Challenges of management education in India

There are many problems we presently face in education sectors. According to NASSCOM-Mackensy report, the Indian Industry will face its biggest challenge ever due to the shortage of talented and knowledge  workers, across Industry, compounded by the fact that only 25 per cent of fresh engineers; and a mere 10% of fresh graduates are actually employable. It is an alarming situation. Adding this with statement of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India, “Unemployment is not the major crisis for India, it is unemployability”.

It is not possible to put a single reason which brought in to the present chaotic situation amongst the young graduates; there are many stakeholder in it. The transformation should start from the Parent, School, College, University and the Government. We are still following a century old teaching fashion which was followed by the British. In UK, they have made necessary amendments time to time to ensure that they follow the relevant methods suits to the present and future industry requirements; unfortunately we followed the same old methods due to our reluctance to the changes.

The ultimate aim of education is to get a job which is relevant to his studies, but most of our graduates fail to find out a job in their area of study due to the huge gap between the education and employability. I feel this is the major drawback in our education system since the ultimate objective of getting a relevant job is not been achieved or it made difficult.