{"id":180363,"date":"2017-05-10T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/10\/the-difference-between-training-and-credentialism\/"},"modified":"2017-05-10T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T02:00:00","slug":"the-difference-between-training-and-credentialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/10\/the-difference-between-training-and-credentialism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between Training and Credentialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study has shown that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwire.com\/outsourcing\/78004-only-36-of-indian-engineers-can-write-compilable-code-study.html\">only 36% of Indian engineers can write compilable code<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is an indication that the Indian education system has a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Even ignoring the basic question of when one should educate, and when one should just train, it appears that Indian degrees are largely about acquiring credentials.<\/p>\n<p>I have noticed this trend both in the US education and employment, but it&#8217;s no surprise that this is more of an issue in India:  Credentialism, or more accurately its caste system, is at its core a system of societally enforced credentials, has been in force for thousands of years:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Only 36% of software engineers in India can write compilable code based on measurements by an automated tool that is used across the world, the Indian skills assessment company Aspiring Minds says in a report. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspiringminds.com\/modal_forms\/nojs\/webform\/1409?url=http:\/\/www.aspiringminds.com\/sites\/default\/files\/National%20Programming%20Skills%20Report%20-%20Engineers%202017%20-%20Report%20Brief.pdf\">report<\/a> is based on a sample of 36,800 from more than 500 colleges across India. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspiringminds.com\/\">Aspiring Minds<\/a> said it used the automated tool Automata which is a 60-minute test taken in a compiler integrated environment and rates candidates on programming ability, programming practices, run-time complexity and test case coverage. <\/p>\n<p>It uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to automatically grade programming skills. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We find that out of the two problems given per candidate, only 14% engineers are able to write compilable codes for both and only 22% write compilable code for exactly one problem,&#8221; the study said.<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">It further found that of the test subjects only 14.67% were employable by an IT services company.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to writing fully functional code using the best practices for efficiency and writing, only 2.21% of the engineers studied made the grade.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have heard this complaint for years from my IT friends, and now we have a study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study has shown that, &#8220;only 36% of Indian engineers can write compilable code.&#8221; This is an indication that the Indian education system has a problem. Even ignoring the basic question of when one should educate, and when one should just train, it appears that Indian degrees are largely about acquiring credentials. I have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[397,588,533,402],"class_list":["post-180363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-education","tag-fail","tag-software","tag-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}