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Dheeraj Sanghi, Dean,
IIIT Delhi, India
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| Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi
is Dean of Academic Affairs at Indraprastha Institute of Information
Technology (IIIT), Delhi, on leave from IIT Kanpur where he
is a Professor of Computer Science. Earlier, he has been Director
of LNMIIT, Jaipur, as well as Dean of Academic Affairs at
IIT Kanpur. He is passionate about Technical education in
India, and is an author of a popular blog on the topic. He
has widely traveled all across India to more than 100 engineering
colleges to understand the problems and issues with technical
education. He is associated with about 10 institutions in
various capacities ranging from member of the Board, member
of Senate, Adjunct faculty, Advisor, etc. His research interests
are in the area of Computer Networks, in particualr, protocols,
and security.
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| Title:Issues with Computer
Science Education in India
India produces more
than one million graduates in Computer Science and related
disciplines every year, and yet, the industry keeps complaining
about lack of skilled manpower. A vast majority of these graduates
will not get jobs that they are supposedly trained for, and
yet, those who will get jobs will have a salary higher than
in many other engineering disciplines. A combination of high
salary and high unemployment can only mean one thing - most
of the students are getting very poor quality of education.
The quality of research output of the country in Computer
Science also leaves much to be desired. While we have seen
rise of service industry in the past two decades, we are yet
to see any significant traction in software products industry.
There are several reasons for the state of affairs, starting
from policy and regulation in higher education, rigidity in
curriculum and pedagogy, inability to leverage technology,
lack of leadership at different levels, to name just a few.
And yet, there is a hope for the bright future. Not only are
the problems solvable, but there is also a hope that technology
will help deliver quality computer science education to larger
number of people.
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/dheeraj/
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