Yesterday I heard that our Karnataka govt is going to increase the duration of degree education from 3 to 4 years and engineering course duration from 4 to 5 years by giving the reason of holding the degree pass outs for 1 year.
If it is done, the govt can hold the degree pass outs for only one year. Again it comes for stability. Now every year there are 10,000 students becoming graduates from each university. Among them 3000 are being pumped to job market. The rest 7000 students are joining higher studies. Again after 2 years they will be pumped into job market. But every year the job created is only about 3500 per year. The peoples are remaining unemployed in the process of shifting from one job to another and in the process of getting their first job. If they get there first job, they will be underemployed. There is a huge supply of graduates but no vacancies. If it continues our corporate jobs will be sold for the person paying more bribes like as govt jobs.
Let it be. The other problem in doing this is, already there is a negative voice for some subjects in the degree (Environmental studies, Constitution of India, and so on.......). The reason is these subjects can be understood only be seeing practical examples. Along with that some core subjects like Financial Services, Decision models, is becoming irrelevant for Marketing and H R students. If this continues our students will not be fit either for Marketing/H R/Finance jobs.
The main drawback in our education system is we are not updating our students as per market requirements. It would be worth of studying consumer psychology for marketing students instead of Financial Services. It would be worth of studying human behavior for H R students instead of Decision models. So more and more specialized subjects should be introduced according to their specialization. Anyhow for degree students it is not possible to apply all the things they have studied. If they study something which is relevant, they can apply it when they get the opportunities. For all the employees, the organization where they are going to work is providing training facilities on their work. But who will train on aspects like psychology? Human Behaviour? And so on.........
The degree students have to study the subjects according to their interest (Specialization). If they study according to their specialization, it requires only 2 and 1/2 years for completing their graduation. Then what is the use of making the degree for 4 years by wasting time in teaching irrelevant subjects?
With Regards
Bharath M-09964559547
