Healthcare, Data Science to attract more talents from campuses in Kerala due to pandemic, say academicians

Healthcare, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology will determine high among the many job-providing sectors for aspirants in increased academic establishments following the spike in demand for skilled professionals in this COVID-19 pandemic interval, say academicians.

“Kerala can tap into the increase in demand for trained manpower in healthcare and allied sectors. There will be a huge demand for not only doctors and nurses, but also people in areas like design, production of medical equipment and in the pharmaceutical sector,” identified Sabu Thomas, Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University.

Prof. Thomas, who headed an professional committee for formulation of area of interest tutorial programmes in Kerala’s increased training sector final 12 months, requested increased academic establishments to step up deal with these sectors by selling analysis and studying utilizing the most recent instruments and know-how.

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“Information Technology will be another sector that will continue to attract fresh talent. There will be an improved focus on digital content and digital pedagogy as teaching and learning has shifted to the online mode after the pandemic,” he mentioned.

Rajan Varughese, Member Secretary of the Kerala State Higher Education Council, reminded that disciplines will more and more draw nearer to each other in the wake of the emergence of more and more cross-disciplinary areas of information.

“In the post-COVID higher education scenario, competence will be e-competence, outcome computational, teaching ICT-linked, evaluation online based, quality e-competency-related, access technology-dependent and equity a mere rhetoric,” he mentioned.

Stating that Kerala is now well-positioned to present high quality increased training in the current context, Prof. Varughese mentioned that there are a number of new era programmes on the UG/PG stage in the schools and faculties in Kerala in areas akin to Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Data Science, Financial Management and so forth. “This includes five-year integrated programmes started last year,” he mentioned.

Keeping up with challenges

M. V. Rajesh, Associate Professor on the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Govt. Model Engineering College in Kochi, mentioned that Data Science can be a significant sector that will require manpower in the rising state of affairs.

“All engineering students would be required to gain adequate knowledge in data analytics. They need to enrol for courses along with their core branch to keep up with the challenges in the post-COVID situation,” he mentioned.

Explaining that native language computing is one other key space that will require further manpower, Prof. Rajesh mentioned that many every day actions in this pandemic state of affairs had turned on-line.

“Sectors like robotics and automation have also witnessed a surge in demand. Some of the engineering colleges in Kerala had already started engineering programmes in these niche areas,” he mentioned.