[COBOL2Java]

The employability gap can be attributed to rote learning based approaches rather than actually writing programmes on a computer for different problems.

Rote learning is not going to get you very far in thinking outside the box, which is where good programming is done.

Also, there is a dearth of good teachers for programming, since most good programmers get jobs in industry at good salaries, the study said.

Rote learning, bad teachers. Garbage in, garbage out. Too bad.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Rote learning is the hallmark of India coders. They generally work in barbed wire compounds in large rooms of 50+ sitting side by side packed like sardines just coding their Jawa or whatever.

[vortec94]

True. My experience at Verizon IT in training H!B’s both domestic and non-H1B’s in India supports this. Thinking creatively is not in their skill set thus solving problems is impossible. Tell them exactly what you want and they’ll get through it. If they hit a problem? All stop.

Verizon shipped over 3,000 jobs to India from 2000 to 2008 when I left.