Tamil Nadu's engineering graduates are least employable.

  Tamil Nadu's engineering graduates are least employable.This is one of the shocking findings of the National Employability Report (NER) 2011, compiled by the employability assessment company Aspiring Minds.

Our country produces the largest number of brilliant engineers and yet, only about a minor percentage of them are employable.

Bad education system because of too much competition, the focus on performance and marks only and the lack of hands-on skills, communication and creativity.

The widening skill gap between the quality of graduates passing out of engineering institutions and the industry's expectations continues to be a cause for concern for Indian IT companies. Critical thinking and the ability to apply concepts learnt in the context of a problem continue to be among the major gaps that need to be bridged.

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