3 months ago
3
The intent of academia is to make broad-based knowledge, which is deep-seated, that would payment the industry, Ashok Thiyagarajan, vice-president, L&D, Intellect Design Arena Limited, said at The Hindu Tech Summit 2026 present connected Friday.
He was speaking astatine a league connected ‘Bridging Academia and Industry: Building the Resilience Talent Pipeline’, which was moderated by L.V. Navaneeth, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), The Hindu Group.
The lawsuit was hosted by The Hindu, presented by VIT, and co-presented by Sify Technologies.
‘Internships unsocial can’t lick problems’
“What you work successful books and however the manufacture operates are 2 antithetic things. Internships unsocial cannot lick the problems, but rather, module excessively should travel during the summertime interruption and enactment successful the industry, becoming a unit multiplier. They should instrumentality the cognition backmost into the schoolroom and person it into an industry-experience centre. This could beryllium a scalable solution,” Mr. Thiyagarajan said.
He besides pointed retired that resilience was a measurement of the capableness of people, not of systems. “We are surviving successful a digitally connected world. We usage truthful galore apps, beryllium it for communications, networking, socialising oregon fiscal transactions. This gives a conception that systems are resilient... that systems connection availability, reliability arsenic good arsenic stability. But radical connection biologic intelligence,” Mr. Thiyagarajan said.
Industry’s responsibility
Talking astir wherever universities autumn abbreviated successful preparing students for resilient roles, Shankar Venugopal, vice-president, Technology Innovation and Intellectual Property, Mahindra & Mahindra, pointed retired that it was the work of the manufacture arsenic good to span the gap.
“At the extremity of the day, we privation students who are acceptable to instrumentality up challenging problems and travel up with innovative solutions. Key gaps prevarication successful knowing versus doing. They whitethorn get to larn a batch from bully teachers astir concepts. But erstwhile it comes to real-world problems, determination is simply a batch of hesitation due to the fact that they haven’t done it successful the past. What they request is much opportunities to practise [dealing] with real-world problems, perchance done internships,” Mr. Venugopal said.
‘Students request method breadth’
He noted that a batch of the students person tenable method “depth” successful their chosen domain. But today’s manufacture needs a bully magnitude of method “breadth” also.
“For instance, successful electrical mobility, we request mobility engineers who cognize mechanical, electrical, electronic, programming, and a full clump of things. The needs of the manufacture person changed,” helium added.
‘Academia and manufacture indispensable enactment together’
Academia and manufacture should enactment hand-in-hand successful designing the syllabus, Nelson Kulandairaj, Chief Digital Officer, CIEL HR, said.
While the academia cannot update the syllabus often since it is not practically possible, determination is simply a request to support a equilibrium successful presumption of what the academia and the manufacture tin do, Mr. Kulandairaj said, adding, “They [Academia and industry] person to travel unneurotic and work.”
Partha Sharathi Mallick, Pro-Vice Chancellor, VIT, said that immoderate of the universities overseas person a full-time programme connected resilience education. He said that the program should instrumentality attraction of concerns, threats, and situation management.
“There is bundle disposable for resilience training, and besides tools. The program should see tools and bundle truthful that students tin get immoderate applicable experience. Curriculum plays an important relation successful creating resilient talent,” helium said.
