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Electronics ForYou (EFY) has recently done a market survey on the training sector. It identified the current demand trends in training courses for professionals and graduates, with respect to the electronics industry. The article published in the EFY June 2015 issue, emphasised on some emerging business models, new courses and geographic trends, while highlighting the scenario in the training products industry. Let us take a look at what industry experts feel about the same.
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To meet and keep up to date with the demand, training institutes look to revise the curriculum of their courses on a regular basis. The trend is to make programs specific to the demand of the industry. Venkatesh Prasad, CEO, RV-VLSI, shared with EFY, “The change in demand, from our perspective, is that, we are starting to see a lot of interest in the industry for back-end courses. By back-end, I mean full-custom physical intellectual property (IP) development such as standard cells, memory layout and input/output (I/O) layout designs. We are also seeing a lot of traction for application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) physical design implementation at block level.”
In the context of the rising demand for verification training, Deepa J., manager, training, Sandeepani School of VLSI and Embedded Systems Design, said, "New verification methodologies have been introduced lately, which are slowly being adopted by companies. Earlier, we were much more into training for IP verification. Now, there is a lot more activity in the System-on-Chip (SoC) verification space and we will be introducing a course on SoC verification in the near future.”
Most engineering colleges and, to some extent, polytechnic colleges across the country have not connected students to the right kind of job profile in the last three to four years. There is no big growth in electronics-related training as potential candidates are getting diverted towards other job profiles.
Satish B. K., senior manager - training services, Sandeepani School of VLSI and Embedded Systems Design, said, “As a training institute, we have definitely seen steady growth in business.”
Business models
NTTF recently worked on a model, called Earn and Learn program, with many companies. Based on Germany's dual education system, it allows people to develop practical skills while working.
Virtual instructor lead training (VILT) is another model adopted by institutes for training industry professionals. Satish added, “Virtual training is mostly for professionals, working on projects, who cannot afford to spend two or three days at an institute.”
According to Venkatesh Prasad, CEO, RV-VLSI, the only business model, which has survived the test of time is setting up an industry-like atmosphere and working in partnership with colleges and universities. He said, “RV-VLSI was set up in a similar way. R.V. TRUST provided the land and infrastructure, whereas the technical expertise came from a company of my own, Nanochip Solutions. Consequently, this allowed us to minimise our cost of operation and offer quality programs with the best infrastructure, keeping the cost of the courses competitive.”
Students from across India
Some training institutes are observing an equal influx of students from northern and southern parts of the country. Jayant Singh Kaintura, head, learning and development, Tevatron Technologies said, “Apart from north and south India, this year, we are also seeing interest from the north-eastern states. Outside India, we have started getting responses from Greece, Sri Lanka and Brazil.”
Satish commented, “We see a lot of students coming from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. We also have considerable students from north Indian states like Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Assam.”
Prasad notes, “We are seeing many students from Andhra Pradesh and Delhi-NCR region showing a lot of interest in our courses. Generally, about 60 per cent of our students are from out of Bengaluru.”
Industry experts feel that corporate training is on the right track. “NTTF is doing a lot of training for major companies into services and manufacturing. Due to continuous technology upgradation, there is always a demand from corporates for training their existing employees,” informs N. Arulselvan, director, Nettur Technical Training Foundation.
The market size is very huge in India in terms of students and professionals, but there are very few good quality training institutions here. Many institutions do not provide relevant training. Experts also feel that some institutes provide irrelevant training and there is no connection between the training and industry requirement. |
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