IT education course should resemble market demand: Minister Sharma

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Apr. 16: Minister for Communication and Information Technology Rekha Sharma has emphasized developing a technical education curriculum that produces human resources required by the technological market.

She viewed that a new and updated course is necessary in line with the advancement in technology as advancement in technology is going rapidly on daily basis.

Minister Sharma expressed her views in a meeting with the officials of the Education Ministry and the Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT) at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology today.

Information technology is now not an ordinary skill-oriented discipline, she said, the ways specialist doctors are produced in medical education, there is a need to produce specialist IT professionals in different areas, and concerned agencies involved in producing human resources should realize it and update their course accordingly.

Although the production of human resources falls under Education Ministry, with regard to IT professionals we also have our concerns, and we are ready for inter-ministerial coordination in this regard for making the production of IT professionals better managed, she viewed.

On the occasion, CTEVT officials lamented that students' expected attraction was not seen in pre-diploma and diploma in computer engineering and information technology although CTEVT was offering the subject, according to the secretariat of the CIT Minister.

In both diplomas of computer engineering and IT, there are students studying less than half of the allocated quota this year. Of the 2,056 quotas for diploma in computer engineering, only 932 students are enrolled while for a diploma in IT, only 506 students are studying although the quota is for 1,200.