India, Jan. 12 -- Indian higher education has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, but graduate outcomes have not kept pace. Enrolments are up, campuses are fuller than ever-and yet employability remains a persistent concern. The problem, argues Kuldip Sarma, Co-Founder and Pro-Chancellor of Medhavi Skills University, is not a shortage of qualifications, but a shortage of graduates who are prepared for real work.

Sarma's argument challenges a long-held assumption: that more degrees automatically translate into better opportunities. In practice, many students graduate having mastered theory but lacking sustained exposure to workplaces where decisions are constrained by time, cost, accountability, and consequences. Learning about wo...