India, Sept. 23 -- As artificial intelligence raises productivity and changes the skills employers demand, the old model of hiring large numbers of graduates and training them on the job is beginning to lose its relevance. The next phase of India's technology story will therefore depend less on producing more engineers and more on transforming how they are taught, trained and assessed

India's technology sector will cross $315 billion in revenue this financial year, growing at 6.1 per cent. Its workforce will grow at 2.3 per cent. Revenue and headcount, which moved together for three decades, have begun to separate, and that single divergence defines the task before our engineering colleges. India's emergence as a global software powerhou...