A cohort leaves the 12th standard, every year, and lands at dismal colleges. Some go to pointless colleges, and then pick up job-specific skills at a teaching shop. Others go to an "engineering college" and pick up job-specific skills. The BPOs are starting to recruit 12th standard students and have them learn on the job, thus dispensing with the wasted years in college altogether.


http://ia.rediff.com/money/2005/dec/21bpo.htm?q=tp&file=.htm