[kamaal]

I can understand purely from an academic perspective- attending classes, passing tests, completing assignments. But again this model breaks down in the real world.

One must really treat engineering as a practice and not as a degree. More like law and medicine.

Throughout India, girls outscore boys in nearly every exam. Somehow that doesn't last at workplaces.

[tomp]

I disagree, not just on this issue, but in general. I think academic education should be more the learning and less training - teach creativity, abstract thinking, curiosity, thinking out-of-the-box, ... The student's then become faster learners of the more mundane things, because they have a better mental abstraction framework, and can learn the things that are required on the job starting to work on the job!

[kamaal]

Yet, despite doing all that we don't see it going well in practice.

The problem is stuffing things in the brain isn't a great use of one's time especially when years of doing that can be replaced by Google query.