The CII (AP) has a new initiative where they bring together some representatives of pharma, biotech and CRO companies with local colleges to give some inputs to students about what industry needs from potential employees. They do this already with engineering colleges. Through this initiative industries can give some inputs to academic institutions on how to make students employable.
Students who need jobs after a BSc most often go to the BPOs for jobs and they get paid quite well. Pharma and biotech industries on the other hand do not pay students with BSc well.
The BPO jobs are sometimes good for the students, sometimes not so good-- a few of them fluorish in this new field while some others don't. But when these BPO jobs dry up, or move to Philippines or Uruguay, then what will students with a BSc in biological sciences do? There are not enough jobs for them -- not even for those who have an MSc.
Secondly, students are also totally undeserving of the BSc or MSc they get. In MSc, they cannot still read a chapter in Lehninger (a standard textbook of Biochemistry) and make their own study notes-- forget research papers.
However, the most important thing they lack is professionalism.
2 comments:
Just wanted to comment that none of your new posts are visible. It seems there are two new posts since the post on CII, but they don't show up on your blog.
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Thanks. Will see what has happened to them.
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