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The Graduate Employability Framework developed by the Sreenarayanaguru Open University (SGOU) present connected Monday seeks to embed skill-based courses successful the curriculum, found an industry-academia collaboration exemplary and fortify placement initiatives.
The document, formally launched by Higher Education Minister R. Bindu astatine the 5th All India Public Open University Vice Chancellors’ Round Table Conference, proposes the integration of employability-focused learning outcomes into each grade programmes.
Besides offering career-oriented courses specified arsenic concern communication, information analytics and manufacture ethics, the assemblage besides targets project-based learning, simulations and manufacture lawsuit studies. Besides encouraging interdisciplinary accomplishment acquisition done unfastened elective courses, internships volition besides beryllium made mandatory for each learners successful nonrecreational courses.
A Graduate Employability Framework volition beryllium constituted to guarantee continuous monitoring of related activities and way progress. Other short-term goals see the motorboat of a vocation improvement and placement cell, alumni mentorship programme and inking agreements with manufacture partners.
SGOU has acceptable a people of achieving implicit 70% occupation placement complaint for graduating learners wrong 5 years, portion striving to grow its planetary manufacture collaborations successful the agelong run.
The assemblage boasts of a flexible learning strategy done the unfastened and region learning (ODL mode) that caters to divers learners, including moving professionals and agrarian learners. The program besides integrates monolithic unfastened online courses (MOOCs) including those provided by the SWAYAM platform.
However, the fledgling assemblage finds scope for betterment connected assorted fronts. Unlike accepted universities, it does not person a dedicated on-campus recruitment process. Besides, it faces the situation of hesitation among industries to prosecute ODL graduates owed to a deficiency of industry-campus engagement.
The model besides highlights the integer disagreement that exists among agrarian learners, with galore struggling to entree integer tools and online vocation resources. Even portion acknowledging the menace faced from online learning platforms that could pull its learners by offering job-ready courses, the assemblage expresses optimism that the increasing request for integer and distant enactment skills presents opportunities for its graduates.
