siliconindia | | March 20208SKILLING THE NEW INDIAN WORKFORCE: WHAT MUST THE EDUCATION SYSTEM DO TO BUILD CAREER-READY STUDENTS?The future workplace is here. It is virtual, highly digitalized, closely collaborative, empowers employees, and thrives on 360-degree feedback. The pace of change has required that the office staff be deeply engaged in everyday operations and not wait for tasks to be assigned. The office of today demands a motivated team that is proactive, open to take on challenges, and team mem-bers can work independently. This has caused a gradual departure from an authoritative management style to a more participative one, wherein management no longer assigns tasks but manages activities of the team. Given the workplace transformation, has our edu-cation system kept pace with it to ensure graduates are workforce ready?Our educational curriculum and pedagogies must in-corporate skill-development based learning that empha-sizes `doing' and learning rather than reading and learn-ing. Theory must exist but as a backup to understanding how it operates in the real world, in the industry. Our education system needs to focus strongly and ef-fectively on providing students with a learning environ-ment where they are exposed to global processes, best practices, and industry-specific problems and be actively encouraged to find their solutions for these. Take for instance a very deeply felt issue in the In-formation Technology arena in India: more and more, IT thought leaders are saying that the current day workforce By Kaushik Raju, Trustee, Atria UniversityKaushik focuses on improving the education system, especially through advanced learning methods such as Xcelerator and collaborative learning community, bringing together academia, industry and flipped classrooms. IN MY VIEWKaushik Raju, Trustee
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