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Ashant Chalasani Premium Member Group moderator
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Re^2: Why outsourcing fails in India
Dear Andreas,

Thank you for bringing this up. I can underscore the same.

I remember this comparision was made in one business-culture training course I attended, contrasting the Indian and the German approaches to software projects. I think the German keyword for this is "Transferleistung". In Germany a student is given an B (or 2,0) if she is able to reproduce what has been taught from textbook by the teacher. However in order to score an A (or 1,0), she has to demonstrate the ability to apply the principles learnt from textbook to a real-world problem. In Indian schools, you generally get an A if you reproduce the textbook.

Indeed there is a broad variation of school and university systems in India, not all of which educate by the same principles. There are few schools as well as higher education institutions which lay primary importance on application of theory to practice. However, your observation holds true for the majority of institutions of education, and probably the education-system as a whole.

The application-capability (Transferleistung) is particularly relevant for engineering fields like software.

This opens up a new discussion - how can the Indian education system be given new impulses to prepare students in a way the global IT industry (or for that matter any other engineering field) can more efficiently absorb.

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Ashant Chalasani
- 21 Nov 2010, 12:48 pm
Ashant Chalasani wrote: > Dear Andreas, > > Thank you for bringing this up. I can underscore the same. > > I remember this comparision was made in one business-culture training > course I attended, contrasting the Indian and the German approaches > to software projects. I think the German keyword for this is > "Transferleistung". In Germany a student is given an B (or 2,0) if > she is able to reproduce what has been taught from textbook by the > teacher. However in order to score an A (or 1,0), she has to > demonstrate the ability to apply the principles learnt from textbook > to a real-world problem. In Indian schools, you generally get an A > if you reproduce the textbook. > > Indeed there is a broad variation of school and university systems in > India, not all of which educate by the same principles. There are > few schools as well as higher education institutions which lay > primary importance on application of theory to practice. However, > your observation holds true for the majority of institutions of > education, and probably the education-system as a whole. > > The application-capability (Transferleistung) is particularly > relevant for engineering fields like software. > > This opens up a new discussion - how can the Indian education system > be given new impulses to prepare students in a way the global IT > industry (or for that matter any other engineering field) can more > efficiently absorb. > > Best regards > Ashant Chalasani
Madabhusi Anand
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Re^2: Why outsourcing fails in India
very interesting point you make Andreas. It is true, but this is changing in India with all the CBSE syllabus for schools also looking for the views of the children and out of the box solutions, rather than just scripted answers...
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Anand
- 19 Feb 2012, 6:52 pm
Madabhusi Anand wrote: > very interesting point you make Andreas. It is true, but this is > changing in India with all the CBSE syllabus for schools also looking > for the views of the children and out of the box solutions, rather > than just scripted answers... > best regards, > Anand

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