How to bring employability in education at all levels
During the times of my grandfather and father 'School Final" was a great qualification. It fetched some really good remunerative and respected jobs. Then a lower and higher 'Typewring and Shorthand ' course was also seen as an added qualification. This was especially needed to get an early and sure job in Mumbai and Delhi in those days.Only very few and privileged went for graduation and still fewer went for professional courses like Medicine and engineering. Such educational institutions were also very less mostly in big cities or abroad.
Then came the vocational education institutions which imparted vocational training along with school and college-level education. They opened a vast area for skilled jobs and many benefited from these. The normal academic stream educated ones got employment in the then-nationalized banking and insurance sector.
But soon there came a prolificity of educational institutions of various hues and colors giving overlapping courses of the same nature. On the other side, the general economic development especially the industrial sector was slowing down. All these contributed to unemployment.
But the IT sector and the opening up of the economy turned this and again unemployment became less.
But at the same time, the employers found the freshly educated candidates not employable. This problem still remains and there is a call to a harmonious sync of employers and educators to make the freshers immediately and suitably employable.
What is your view? Do you have any idea in this regard?
( Entry for A thread-a -day Challenge contest)