Bridging skill gap: How universities are building tech workforce industry needs

Bridging skill gap: How universities are building tech workforce industry needs

Professor Souri Banerjee, Director BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. We often speak about the “skill gap” as though it were a distant, abstract challenge. In reality, it shows up in very practical ways across organisations. A graduate enters the workforce and needs time to become fully effective. Employers, in turn, spend months training new hires on tools and systems they had expected them to already know. What exists in between is not a gap of capabil…