| |9 DECEMBER 2015HIGHERReviewshould be hired everywhere, to evaluate the quality of education and suitability of institutes. Collaborative research works are what gives students the extra edge to be more competitively ready for jobs, right after college. Companies must emphasize on the pivotal aspect of the strategic relationship between faculty and students, ensuring that programs are added to make the faculty and students work together on solving the current industrial issues. This is one factor which puts students in the driver's seat while looking for a job.What should institutions focus on? Technology today is moving at a great pace. It has now started moving towards, wearable devices, mobility, and secure access from mobile devices. Technologies that make more intuitive products with speech or gesture recognition or, perhaps, even Artificial Intelligence could hold the key. And with this moving pace comes the countless number of current opportunities in the IT industry for fresh engineers to work with. Institutions should concentrate on setting up a collaboration mechanism with the corporations that hire students from them, to create awareness among students of the current technological problems.Students should be allowed to provide feedback on teachers, on the quality of their teaching, their ability to share relevant/practical examples, and their engagement with students. Institutes where industry expert values can be given and received are often the ones who top the list in producing job ready graduates. Being a technology organization, Honeywell looks at the vertical aspect of development and helps prepare students to meet these current standards. By partnering with select institutions, the firm helps in designing a syllabus which benefits both the parties. Their expert views are added to the curriculum to make students more effective after they graduate. A new breed of students, are thus raised learning to face and solve the current day to day problems of the industrial world. Education is now driven by radical changes in the information and technology domain. Technology has made education more collaborative and experiential. This is why the recent years have seen a shift in the way education is being delivered. Academic calendars show how important industry influence has been in preparing employable students. Mutually beneficial partnerships are often achieved when right industries combine with right institutions to prepare right students for the right jobs. (As told to HER Team).He joined Honeywell in 2008 and, from 2010 onwards, he served as the India HR Leader for Performance Materials and Technologies. He earned his Bachelor of Science from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, and a Masters in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from Jiwaji University, Gwalior. Ajay Kukreja
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