SLIIT to provide 50 percent of IT professionals - True or False ?
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that 60% of SLIIT students are having difficulties findining jobs.
It's great the this goventment funded institute is giving
opportunities to students who could afford going abroad or to other
local institues, but the thing is, once they graduate how sure are
they of their future.
Friends of mine who are at SLIIT have been looking for jobs
everywhere, but lot of companies don't like to hire them as their
standards are very low, and it's cost them a lot to get them upto
standard. Their pay would start from a mere 10,000 a month and slowly
progress.
SLIIT is just becoming a mass production factory with no quality in
their students. Maybe they should aim at giving their students a
better education, which would ensure their students a better future.
Now they are merely flooding the market with unproductive graduates
who will have a harder future, and it will also cost those graduates
more as they would have to do other prgrams to be acceptable in the
industry.
It's just my view from seeing some of the hardships my friends had to
go through.
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http://www.dailynews.lk/2006/10/20/fin02.asp
Anjana Samarasinghe
IT: Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) is expected
to provide 50 percent of the required IT professionals to the local IT
industry.
Managing Director/CEO of the SLIIT Prof. Lalith Gamage told the media
at the launching of the B.Sc. Degree Programme in Computer Systems and
Networking recently that at present they are producing 40 percent of
the total required IT professionals to the industry.
However SLIIT has produced over 1100 graduates to the industry and it
will be 1500 by the end of this year. Annually SLIIT provides 500 to
600 graduates to the industry.
Now Sri Lanka has a growing market demand for specialists in the
fields of computer network, wireless and mobile communication
technologies created by the rapid growth of data networks both locally
and globally, Gamage said.
A fresh IT graduate will get Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 30,000 and after three
years they could demand for Rs. 75,000 to Rs. 80,000 per month, he
added.
Chairman/President of the SLIIT Prof. Sam Karunaratne said that there
should be a surplus of IT professionals in the industry to gain more
business opportunities in the global IT sector.
The IT industry is an ample sector to venture out for countries like
Sri Lanka since it does not need high infrastructure that is required
for industries such as manufacturing, he said.
SLIIT has lunched a B.Sc. degree programme in computer systems and
networking with the leading university in Australia Curtin University
of technology for local students.
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