Reuters just reported a story on China regarding graduate students - China says two million new graduates jobless. While the situation is blamed on perhaps a little too aggressive planning to enroll students the other part of the challenge lies in the education content. Is that suited to industry requirements? According to the report
They also cite the education system's failure to produce graduates with the qualifications and skills that employers need as well as unrealistically high job and salary expectations on the part of some college leavers.
When the times are bad the blame game obviously starts, but today graduate eduction especially in the field of computer science and software as little chance to be realistically helpful for the industry unless industry itself gets involved. The pace of change is humongous and the traditional system of learning through books and instructors is simply not fast enough. Students need to pick up skills almost instantaneously and the best way is to start engaging with open source. No more excuses on faculty , curriculum , the shear number etc. The push needs to come from students and come quickly. Portals such as Kenfuse can provide the starting point and it is for the students to make the best use of it.
It,s great article.
By brody2x