Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana E S L Narasimhan today emphasised the need to provide quality education from school-level onward and rued thousands of graduates are coming out of colleges every year with "zero skills".
Speaking after inaugurating TalentSprint's 'SmartCampus' here, he said the education sector is not producing the desired results and needs to be restructured.
Students coming out of colleges are turning into machines instead of human beings, an official release quoted the Governor as saying at the event.
He lamented engineering graduates are unable face interviews due to lack of desired skills. "Thousands of graduates are coming out of colleges every year with zero skills."
Narasimhan said, "Today what we require is skill development. I would also like to appeal that this is the time for all of us to sit down and think what is wrong with our education system.
"Something has gone wrong with our education system, the capacity to think, innovate, ask questions or the intuitive system has collapsed, our educational system has just become a mechanical process, that's where the skill talent will provide a platform which will take us forward."
He felt that with increasing digitisation in all aspects of life, memory power is decreasing in students, forcing them to rely more on virtual world.
He said changes are necessary in methods of teaching to ensure students are fully equipped with required skills and are ready to face the real time world.
"It is time for Government to reinvent education and there is no purpose in opening IITs, IIMs all over the place unless I have the right quality of faculty and right quality of education," the Governor added.
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