It is ridiculous to associate Goa with the CPLP. Goa is an Indian
state that does not want to be part of neo-colonial policies.
Alberto
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Assunto: Re: [GRN] Goa University stands as India’s sole UG, PG
degree provider in Portuguese, shortage of experts plays major
deterrent (Gerard de Souza, Hindustan Times)
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Maybe an association of Goa with CPLP (Comunidade dos Países de
Língua Portuguesa) might help solving that problem.
NCS
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SUBJECT: [GRN] Goa University stands as India’s sole UG, PG degree
provider in Portuguese, shortage of experts plays major deterrent
(Gerard de Souza, Hindustan Times)
GOA UNIVERSITY STANDS AS INDIA’S SOLE UG, PG DEGREE PROVIDER IN
PORTUGUESE, SHORTAGE OF EXPERTS PLAYS MAJOR DETERRENT
ByGerard de Souza, Goa
May 30, 2024 01:24 PM IST
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ALTHOUGH THERE IS A HUGE DEMAND FOR PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE EXPERTS, THE
UNIVERSITY IS NOT ABLE TO MEET THE DEMAND AS THERE AREN’T ENOUGH
TRAINED PERSONNEL AROUND.
It’s Tuesday morning and Dhruv Usgaonkar’s phone is buzzing
constantly. An assistant professor at the Department of Portuguese
and Lusophone Studies at the Goa University, Usgaonkar is fielding
questions from parents and students eager to hear about the
prospects of pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Portuguese offered by
the Goa University and related programmes
Amidst it all, he receives a call from the Dean of a Goa-based
Management Institute inquiring about the availability of teachers to
conduct a Portuguese course for the students of the Institute’s
integrated MBA course. “There is a massive shortage of Portuguese
teachers right now,” he explains to the caller whilst lamenting his
inability to meet the demand.
“There is a huge demand for Portuguese language experts and those
proficient in the language and interest has been growing, but
unfortunately we are not able to meet the demand as there aren’t
enough trained personnel around,” Usgaonkar says. It’s not just
trainers that are in demand, the staff at the department receives
daily inquiries from across the country from companies big and small
offering language services seeking candidates to employ, a demand
that currently isn’t being met.
Goa University is the only university in the whole of South Asia and
one of only two in Asia – the other being in Macau – to offer
degrees in Portuguese language. The University offers Bachelor's and
Master’s degrees in Portuguese as well as tie-ups with universities
in Porto and Lisbon offering a gateway towards scholarships to
pursue postgraduate and higher studies in Europe.
Currently, it has 13 students pursuing their Bachelor’s degrees and
eight students pursuing their Master’s degrees while two students
are pursuing their PhD via a visiting professor guide and one from
Goa is pursuing his PhD from the University of Lisbon via a
scholarship.
Ironically, it is students from north India – Delhi, Uttar Pradesh,
Bihar, Uttarakhand as well as some other states who make up a bulk
of the students opting for the courses rather than locals, many of
whom are already familiar with the language thanks to having learned
to speak it from their parents and grandparents.
“There are opportunities at the local level, the national level, and
international level for professionally trained Portuguese language
experts, locally for legal and commercial translation of archival
and historical documents and land documents, for teachers, there is
a massive demand,” Usgaonkar explains.
“At the national and international level, we are constantly
approached by MNC companies to employ staff who can communicate in
Portuguese as business ties between India and Brazil, two growing
economies have been growing at a huge pace and demand for those who
can work in corporate translations and understand technical language
are in huge demand. All our students have been employed by
multinational companies working companies like Amazon, IBM,
Accenture, Embraer, Marcopolo, etc as language experts,” Usgaonkar
said. Companies have also come looking for Hindi-Portuguese
translators for jobs like subtitling of Indian soap operas to allow
them to be broadcast in Brazil the world’s largest Portuguese
market, where they are hugely popular.
However, rather than witnessing a spurt in demand for the courses,
interest in the courses hasn’t grown. Only a few of the twenty seats
available each year are taken.
Ritu Raj, a third-year student from Patna, followed his brother’s
footsteps and is pursuing his BA in Portuguese and hopes that like
his brother who was picked up by an MNC and is working from
Hyderabad, he too will land a high-paying job in the sector. “I
chose to study Portuguese because the opportunities that present
themselves are many and there are only a few who are taking it up,”
Raj, who had no knowledge of Portuguese before deciding to pursue a
Bachelor’s degree. He had instead chosen Physics, Chemistry, and
Maths at the higher secondary level.
NOT MANY SEE THE OPPORTUNITY
Franz Schubert Cotta, a former student and assistant professor in
Portuguese, said, “Students in Goa prefer mainstream careers like
doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc, and are also perhaps not enthused
by the idea of working outside Goa in other cities of India.”
“Within Goa, the only opportunities are as a teacher or as a
translator. However, the main opportunities of getting a job as a
Portuguese language expert are mainly with MNCs and all our students
have availed of these opportunities and are doing very well.
Students of north India have already recognized this,” he added. The
department hopes that the growing demand coupled with the allure of
a fully paid scholarship – paid for by the Instituto Camões, a
Portuguese government-funded overseas institute, and Fundação
Oriente, a private foundation – will help spur demand for the course.
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