Go to school, get your degree, get a job.  Does this traditional path from education to employment make sense today for the hundreds of millions of learners around the world? The main problem was the lack of proper infrastructure, poor quality labs, no focus on practical knowledge, no idea of what market demands and poor non-beneficial curriculum. This presentation was prepared for the last phase of assignment submission for Design Thinking Action Lab course of Venture Labs, Stanford University.

1. PROTOTYPE AND TEST
Submitted by:
Arijit Goswami
Engineering student
India

2. THE PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED
 Go to school, get your degree, get a job. Does this traditional path
from education to employment make sense today for the hundreds
of millions of learners around the world? The task for this
assignment is to generate as many ideas as possible for the problem
statement crafted last week.
 The main problem was the lack of proper infrastructure, poor
quality labs, no focus on practical knowledge, no idea of what
market demands and poor non-beneficial curriculum.

3. MOST FAVORITE IDEA
Entry of foreign universities in the nation
 The entry of foreign universities in the nation would be a boon
for the education sector. These institutes would certainly bring
their expertise in education that they have earned over the
years. They would definitely maintain the reputation of their
campuses in foreign lands, to maintain their status in the world
rankings and in turn would help to improve the education
system of the nation.

5. •Foreign curriculum is good solution.
•Students would learn and benefit a lot
from it.
•Indian students may follow their system.
•Companies would prefer the students who
learn as per the foreign curriculum.
•Foreign curriculum is more advanced than
ours.
•The students of our universities would lose
importance.
•Check that they don’t remain unemployed.
•How to retain the students in India after
education so that they can bring some change.
•Some method to be devised to check our
universities from protesting against this.
•A method to ensure that the education at
foreign institutes be affordable for Indian
population.
•Subsidized land can be given to these institutes.
•Develop links with companies too, to seek their
guidance.
•Tie-ups of Indian universities with foreign
universities must be the 1st step to encourage
them to come to India.
•Reservation policy not to be enforced on foreign
institutes.
•Talk to alumni of reputed Indian universities and
seek their opinion too.
•Foreign institutes may not give reservations to
backward castes-how to resolve this issue?
•How to ensure that education in these foreign
institutes would be affordable for us?
•How would we ensure that they deliver the
same quality of education here?
•How to sustain our national universities?
•Would there be a preference for professors
from outside or would Indian professors be also
recruited in these institutes?
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What worked?? What could be improved??
Questions ?? Ideas !!

6. MOST DISRUPTIVE IDEA
Involve employers in curriculum design
 I think that involving the prospective employers in curriculum
design can be of immense help. The employers know exactly
what they want from their prospective employee. The industry
experts can be roped in to ask for their suggestions, that can help
revamp the education curriculum of the nation. This way the
students would be taught exactly those aspects which a company
looks for in the individuals walking out of their colleges.

7. PROTOTYPE OF A WEB PORTAL: EXPERTSPEAK.IN

8. FLOWCHART

9. •Employers’ views necessary.
•Portal easy to use and helpful.
•Small HTML code helps it load easily.
•Immaculate suggestions would be
obtained.
•Easy to record the opinions and store
them for future use.
•Employers’ suggestion would have a quick
and direct impact on our education system.
•Would help to give an insight on what the
market demands.
•Devise ways to capture students’ opinions too.
•Make the opinions visible to the entire nation
on another portal.
•Let the employers cite some real world case
scenarios as well.
•Have frequent meeting with the contributing
employers to involve them in the loop even
more.
•Allow students to give their suggestions too.
•A mechanism to segregate the views of
employers and students.
•Let the industries give training to teachers as
well.
•Have feedback from students on the opinions.
•Make the ideas visible to the entire nation.
•Take suggestions from student community as
well.
•Spread awareness about this portal in students,
if implemented, by having a chapter on this
technology in their school curriculum.
•Start an online newsletter service for this
website, which gives monthly updates to
subscribers about the suggestions submitted.
•Would our government really consider the
opinions?
•Would the employers remain encouraged to
give their opinions?
•Will education boards accept this portal or not?
•How to ensure that solutions going to Indian
education boards from this portal are practical
ones?
•Would the teachers and universities be always
receptive towards the suggestions?
•Payment to the contributors?
•How the portal would be funded?
•Would it be owned by government or will it be a
private enterprise?
? !
What worked?? What could be improved??
Questions ?? Ideas !!

10. THANK YOU !!!