| | 8 DECEMBER 2015HIGHERReviewIn ancient times, India had the Gurukula system of education where anyone who wished to study went to a teacher's (guru) house and requested to be taught. Learning was directly linked to practice, and not confined to memorizing data. The modern school system was introduced in India by the English. The curriculum was confined to "modern" subjects such as science and mathematics. Teaching was confined to classrooms and the link with practice, to learn new things was broken. Then the 10+2+3 pattern of education was adopted, and the whole process of learning changed in India. Through this change the nation has made progress in terms of increasing the literacy rate to approximately three-quarters of the population. The country has an improved education system now but why are there still more than a handful of college graduates without a job in hand? Why are industries not pushing enough to work with institutes to bring back the practice based system the country had from the very beginning, ensuring enough ready talent to meet every industrial need. Industry ­ institute partnering in the process of co-creation of curriculum, makes learning more practice based.In the current academic system in India, there is a fair amount of rigidity on subject combinations, when the trend now is more about inter-disciplinary studies. A motor car is no longer only a mechanical engineer's sole problem, it has more sensors and on-board computers for an electronics engineer to play a big role in the production of a car. This is why joint evaluation processes should be experimented to assess students correctly. Showing them their strengths and guiding them towards a more accurate result. Industries in the same way should look for institutions that are willing to alter their curriculum and make themselves flexible enough to create job ready students and not just graduates. Students at the industries should be evaluated based primarily on the basis of various parameters such as, curriculum, benchmarking, work location, compensation budget and relationship with the institute. Interns Ajay Kukreja, Country Human Resources Director, Honeywell IndiaA Right Industry with a Right Institute can Make the Right DifferenceIn My View
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