Upgrading Academic Standards and Employability in Punjab / North West India – Role of Society and Stakeholders – The Broad Perspective
Written purely in my personal capacity, this does not reflect the views of my employer in any manner. Dinesh K Kapila Upgrading Academic Standards and Employability in Punjab / North West India – Role of Society and Stakeholders – The Broad Perspective Interactions with industry officials and academicians plus my own professional thought processes have led to a perspective on employability and academic standards. The thought process that academic standards in North West India need to upgrade urgently and to be reoriented for employability as also entrepreneurship has now evolved as a reasoned belief. The recent and repeated incidents of violence at the academic campuses (even in the private sector) in this region also masks a deeper malaise, if considered in conjunction with the above. We can safely assume that the attempts to address falling academic standards and violence by an administrative fiat or a law and order approach will not work. The academicians, parents and socie...