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Curriculum Enrichment in Empowering “Corporate-Ready” Individuals

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It is turned out to be obvious in current trend that the curriculums are not adequately covering up the skills that a fresh graduate should possess to become employable. In order to become “corporate-ready,” the industry expectations have to be incorporated into the curriculum. Curriculum enrichment supports cognitive development of the student fraternity through well-planned lessons spread throughout the period of education. This study focuses on bridging the gap of academic-industrial interface with necessary skill sets between the seekers and the employees and molding individuals as “corporate-ready.” Once the Board of Study (BOS) identifies the existing gap, they will be able to incorporate the skills sets that are required to make the fresh graduates “corporate-ready.” The results were very optimistic showing 85% of the study group members welcoming the prerequisite in comparison with only 15% for the control group members opting for other dimensions of skill sets.

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  1. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India

    Ganeshayya Shidaganti

  2. East Point College of Engineering And Technology, Bangalore, India

    S. Prakash

  3. National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research, Chandigarh, India

    K. G. Srinivasa

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    Xin-She Yang

  2. University of Reading, Reading, UK

    Simon Sherratt

  3. Department of Information Technology, Techno India College of Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Nilanjan Dey

  4. Global Knowledge Research Foundation, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

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Shidaganti, G., Prakash, S., Srinivasa, K.G. (2020). Curriculum Enrichment in Empowering “Corporate-Ready” Individuals. In: Yang, XS., Sherratt, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Fourth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1027. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9343-4_35

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