Contribution of colleges in the Covid period
For a while now, my friends ( Shashank Parab Anand Hariharan ) and me, have been discussing the impact of online education on the tech degrees, and Indexnine Technologies ‘s challenges in hiring new graduates.
We anticipated the challenges of:
- lower quality professors due to no industry experience
- absence of any “serious” project in the lifetime of the bachelors degree
- too many “languages”, but too little “programming” depth
- usage of frameworks / libraries / Cloud Services rather than the fundamentals and building things
- No exposure to “cli” for compiling / running applications
We always said, “the good old days” were better for fundamentals, but the “new days” are better for “higher level abstractions”.
But I have been hit with a new reality in the last 2 weeks. I am getting exposed to fresh graduates, who have absolutely no ability to programme, because their college was all “online” and they just did not get to do any projects. Or, were sidekicks to their partners with passion, and hence ended up with no hands on experience.
From what I hear, the companies that are taking these grads, are going to have them go through another 6 months of training. Now, this isn’t a new concept. Even our batch had that. But do these companies know the new baseline ?
These are children whose parents have paid fees to the colleges, who they thought were “reputed”, so that their children would have a great future.
How are the head of departments of these “degree” courses able to sleep with this in their conscience ? Udemy, Udacity, freeCodeCamp and YouTube would do a better job. If only their mentors would have pointed them to those places during the graduation process.
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