Apropos the column, "Overseas degree and job: Double or quits?", industrial training institutes (ITI) and polytechnic schools were set up to train students in a particular trade and secure a job after they had cleared their intermediate exams. With the advent of different types of industries, the size, nature, scope and requirements of industry underwent a sea change even as the syllabi of ITI and polytechnic schools remained largely unchanged. These institutes need to be in constant touch with the industries and review and/or overhaul their syllabi accordingly.
The government ought to change the syllabi in schools after matriculation so that students are trained in a trade suited to their skills and capability. By the time they leave college they would then be job-ready and would not have to go abroad for a degree.
Mahesh Sethi Kanpur
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