Wipro Initiates To Improve Engineering Education

It''s a problem of plenty, too many engineering graduates but less than 15 per cent have the right skills to make them employable by the IT industry. While most IT companies have tied up with colleges to train students, Wipro has launched what it hopes will be a more wide reaching initiative. Wipro has launched Mission 10x, a unique education program that it hopes will improve the standard of engineering education. Mission 10x hopes to train 1,000 faculty from engineering colleges across the country this year alone and increase that to 10,000 by 2010. The program will consist of workshops and training modules for faculty developed by Wipro''s own team of trainers, which the company hopes will percolate down to the students.

Employability the key element, which has been talked about by companies across the board is becoming even more critical as India gets ready to induct 5,00,000 engineering graduates this year. And while the government spend on engineering education maybe increasing every year by five per cent, companies continue to be faced by issues like mother tongue influence and technical know how as they expand to Tier II and Tier III towns.