Kapil Garg 17 October 2008 Leveraging quality faculty and cultivating trainers Click to add sub header

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3 Emerging challenges Aging fields - need to maximize value. Accelerated exploration yielding impressive results –(Deep waters, rig constraints) New reserves (KG/Rajasthan) to come on production ( ) Gas sector enters “third growth” phase Gas retail sector (CGD) set to grow Unconventional gas resources exploitation Supply security : –Maximize domestic supply –Equity oil and gas Energy supplies critical for India’s economic success

4 What do we need ? Technologies Talented work force –Domestic and international Market Strong collaboration –Government – Academia – Research Bodies – Industry High quality education & training system –Institutions, Faculty, Labs, Linkages Overarching policy framework Understand professional preferences of gen-next Positioning and visibility of sector

5 Development of human capital – issues Shortage of competent human resources Lack of awareness of sector High attrition rate Serious shortfall of quality faculty Inadequately equipped universities Course curriculum requires changes Slow change process at educational institutes

6 Domestic pool of knowledge and expertise Government and regulatory bodies Educational institutions Oil & Gas companies Industry service providers Linked other industries Consultancy companies Financial Institutions Research set-up –(Public & Private – CSIR) Research set-up –(Oil & Gas companies) Retiring Staff Need to aggregate to develop a national pool

7 How to address faculty issues National level status paper required covering: –Requirement of HR over the next 5-10 years ◦Domestic and global market –Gap analysis ◦Institutions, Facilities, Faculty, Programmes –Specific strategies to fill gaps ◦Role of industry –Bilateral and multilateral initiatives –Leveraging Diaspora ◦Global universities –Communication strategies ◦Sector visibility –Funding requirements and support

8 How to address faculty issue Create a national pool of top line faculty Create a national pool of industry professionals –Trainers, others Create mechanism to benefit from retiring professionals (domestic and international) Link up 1, 2, 3 above to: –Fill critical faculty gaps at universities –Coaching/parenting/mentoring of faculties to upgrade skills and competencies –Facilitate relationship between Indian and reputed global universities

9 How to address faculty issue Adopt International/US Model: –Dual Degrees- at different universities –Flexibility to choose core modules across universities –Industry- University Partnerships Funding through corpus –OIDB + Industry + Universities

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