Industry Academia Collaboration
The industry and the academic Institute interaction has been always a topic importance of which has been acknowledged from both sides. The practical constraints tend to restrict concrete steps taken to make improvement in this area. Most of the time industry keeps on providing the feedback that the graduates they get from the academic Institute are far from industry ready state. Yesterday I had opportunity to visit one of the leading academic Institute in Mumbai which recently become autonomous. They have seized this opportunity and are in process of revising their syllabus. I really appreciate the initiative taken by the institute to reach out to the professionals from the various fields and seek their inputs in the syllabus formation. Below are the key suggestions which came from the industry professionals The faculty interaction with industry was clearly called out as major area of opportunity. The internship for the faculty was one of the options proposed to...