Mutually beneficial

Collaboration between academia and industry to produce employable manpower is win-win for all.

Of the many ills facing Nepal’s universities, the unemployability of their graduates perhaps tops the list. For the longest time, industry leaders have complained that fresh graduates seldom possess the skills required to start working immediately. Instead, say industry leaders, they often have to train the newbies for six months to a year before they start doing any substantial work. Among other things, this lapse results in the financial and temporal loss of the employers and the employees. Moreover, this additional burden of having to unlearn and relearn alienates the graduates, forcing them to leave the country to seek easier jobs and settle for less than they deserve.