The growing disconnects between higher education and industry requirement in India is, today, a matter of grave concern. Even as many graduates pass out universities and aspire for a good job, their lack of requisite skills stands in the way of getting a good break. 
   With our over-emphasis on academic performance, universities and institutions are producing youngsters with degrees but not employability. One of the biggest challenges hiring manager’s face today is finding candidates with the right skill sets. Being educationally qualified is one thing, being job-ready quite another. 
    So how do we bridge the gap? Vocational and skill development training, if delivered in a balanced and well-defined manner, can help bring talent to industry. In this context, private vocational training institutes can play a major role in helping government with skill development, especially in the field of technology.
Recruiters test you on various parameters like knowledge of core subjects, reasoning aptitude, adaptability and soft skills and most importantly technology.  
It is the job of placement institutes to make students aware of the various and build on their employability skills. Internalise knowledge by assimilating contents designed with the aid of 3D technology, augmented reality and virtual ones. 
More scientific assessment aimed at finding and bridging knowledge gap and improving learning instead of filtering and ranking students. The assessment not only help in improving student quality but also saving time by automating the assessment process by latest image recognitions technology.
With the advent of technology we are seeing modern day classrooms only a reminiscence of the past.
Most of the classrooms are now turning into labs where focus is on learning by doing. There are also labs for language that is replacing traditional spoken English tutorials.
Government has taken awareness of the power of learning by doing at early stage of a student’s school years. With a vision to cultivate 1 million children in India as neoteric innovators, Atal Innovation Mission is establishing Atal Tinkering Laboratories in schools across India. 
The objective of this scheme is to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing, etc. This will provide grant-in-aid that includes a one-time establishment and operational expenses for a maximum period of five years each.
Massive Open Online Courses and Learning Management System coupled with advances in smartphones will make learning personalised and flexible. Classroom based distance learning are popular among working professionals or graduate students.   
Although, we are witnessing exponential in changes in the way the education is delivered. One thing that has remained constant is the presence of a human educator. With evolution the role of this person has changed from an enforcer to enabler. 
Emerging economies carrying a colonial legacy of education system are still hesitant to adopt technology. At present, nearly 80 per cent of new entrants to the country’s workforce get little or no opportunity for skills education. Merely 2.5 per cent of our workforce is exposed to formal vocational training. Enrolling in such institute or hands-on skill training course can be of great help to candidates looking out for employment opportunities. 

THE WRITER IS FOUNDER CHAIRMAN OF ICA EDU SKILLS PVT LTD