INDIA: Most graduates unemployable, says Kalam

02 December 2007

Skills deficiencies among graduating students is higher education’s biggest challenge, according to former President APJ Abdul Kalam, reports The Hindu.

He said that only 25% of graduating students were employable, and that students were lacking in areas such as technical knowledge, English proficiency and critical thinking.

Kalam was speaking at a gathering of vice-chancellors on the last day of the 82nd annual meeting of the Association of Indian Universities, hosted by Anna University-Chennai. He said that the skills graduates were lacking were all highly sought after by the IT and IT-enables services industry, and the emerging Knowledge Process Outsourcing sector.
Full report on The Hindu site

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