Our rural side college students are lack in English. If they know English in a well manner they would get a better job. To fulfill this need we want to teach them Cambridge University
English Skills for Employability
Business English is needed for our college students to enhance their employable skills.
English plays a vital role in increasing opportunity around the world. It provides access to the information with which individuals can learn and develop and it provides access to the networks which are vital in building and maintaining economic links. Perhaps more importantly, it provides a common language to share knowledge and ideas and to create the kind of relationships which go beyond a simple deal or contract. It enables people to explore cultural differences and to create the kind of trust and understanding which is vital in negotiating and agreeing our common future.
In our country only 10-15 % of general college graduates are suitable for immediate employment. The main problem is that of employability. Studies have indicated that only one in four engineering graduates from India India
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A Planning Commission assessment shows 80 percent of the 12.8 million new entrants to India
If access to English is unequal, then the gap between the rich and countries, and the process appears also to have begun in India poor in India
There are countless stories of how leading Indian companies are visiting engineering and MBA colleges in interior parts of the country to add to their basket of employable graduates but are returning empty-handed.
Research indicates that a large portion of our country’s graduate pool lacks English communicative fluency and interpersonal skills. This has not only become one of the biggest constraints for BPO industry’s growth momentum but also for Automobile, Construction, Banking and Retail services.
Our field work showed that there is a section of students who do not need any special training for English. In the other end there are students who are terribly weak in English. But they are not afforded to bear the cost of learning English. The urban elite can’t understand the problems of our students studying in rural side colleges. These students have their own problems in various forms like money, distance, technology, time, etc.
One simple example will explain their present conditions in a well manner. They do not know what a dictionary is. They are not aware of “Oxford
Common European Framework (CEF) could be a model for developing a tool to assess students’ and teachers’ language skills. We aim C1 in (CEF). Cambridge
Further if we are really serious to bring this exam to them then we should go to their educational institutions. It will be another hurdle for them if we insist them to come to our class room to learn English. Even if possible we should go to their homes. If we are able to club a group of students in a particular village it will be better to start our own class room in that particular village.
But it is feasible to go to their colleges. Another problem is this exam involves cost. Cost for course books. Cost for dictionary. Cost for exam fees. Cost for faculty fees. The college authorities would not give any help except giving us class rooms.
The silver lining is Indian Corporates are eagerly helping our students to learn English.
