With the coming of the new budget five new IIT's and IIM's have been announced but nothing seems to be changing in terms of computers education in India. Students all over the country are looking for change, change so that their education prepares them for the work after and not just gives them a fancy piece of paper which is supposed to qualify as a measure of their knowledge.
"When it comes to Information Technology most Indians think of software engineer. The reason is because it's the main subject taught in colleges." said Aadit Shah, a programmer at Browser Stack."Every Information Technology or Computer Science should be taught a bit of programming, networking, software engineering and databases. Besides that everything else should be optional so that students can pick what they need depending on which sub-stream of IT they choose to pursue"
Some teachers still feel like the education system is good, its the marks oriented outlook that needs to change " I have faith in the traditional education system. I believe that its really good that students get a basic understanding of all the concepts they need and then they can go on further to specialize with their masters degree and PHD " said Manali Jamsandekar. College students beg to differ "After one year of a core course students should be allowed to pick their own subjects. That would allow them to either specialize in a single field or generalize a broad scope of Information Technology. This will improve grades, performance and knowledge." said Chinmay Parikh, an engineering student at Mukesh Patel engineering college.
The problem lies not only with the subjects and the structure of the degree but also in the kind of knowledge imparted "Even though Indians have Linux as a subject in engineering/computer science, very few of them have even looked at the source code.Even lesser of them have helped make a patch." added Aadit. "There is also a lack of practical real world education. Statistical analysis is only taught in math class. Students never get the chance to implement this knowledge using R programming."
Whichever way you look at it change is necessary. India's brightest minds leave the country for a high quality of education, if they have that here then they won't need to leave. What is still to be seen is what the education boards do next.
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