Too many reasons can be given for this, but the most important in my opinion is ‘incompetence and unawareness’ of employed IT lecturers in these colleges. They are, for the most of them, proud over their 30-year old technologies and paradigms. To add to the trouble, they strive really hard to keep the students in the same darkness! This is to the effect that not only the expertise, but the mentality and attitude of students towards learning new technologies is impaired and their enthusiasm and ability gets crippled.

And this holds true especially for teachers in IT domain, who are poor graduates who couldn’t get a great job after graduation, so they were left with the only option of Post Graduation, followed by doctorate courses — all this not driven by interest or will but by the lack of ability. If they were good engineers, they would be working in industry and would not have opted for teaching. Teaching, unfortunately, is the last resort — and hence you see the residual garbage in these professions.

Industries, have worked around this problem by interviewing for aptitude of students, and later offering technical training for first 6 months or an year after hiring freshers. They don’t rely on any part of academic knowledge the student might have gained, and start training afresh.

For those who can’t afford to train, hiring skilled people is too difficult a task. I know the situation is bad, but nobody’s working to fill the gap.