A Reality Check!
By Don Savio Philip
Is it ‘studying’ or ‘learning’ that fulfils the meaning of “Education”? When education is being marked as the criteria, how far will you look into the productivity aspects that make an individual who fulfils the core aspect of being a certificate rather than owing one becomes the indispensable one…
This is the time to prove that you are one!
The present world is so agile that it emphasises on the frenetic people rather than the languid ones. The aspect of competition has gained its maximum momentousness. Hence it is imperative to keep up with the sturdiness and exuberance. Thus the attitude of being risk-averse makes the situation of individual worse as today’s world needs only productive and skilled people.
It is a consequential fact to look into the aspects of ensuring quality education, the emphasis on employability skills and productivity of the students. It is pivotal in enhancing and moulding prolific individuals.
India, being the second most populated country in the world doesn’t become the most developed country. And the far-reaching fact is that more emphasis is given on getting higher marks rather than acquiring the skills which require the practical knowledge which is not given any significance. We may hardly find companies which select employees based on their marks. No one needs individuals having bookish knowledge but instead hunts for vigorous people who possess practical knowledge. We have to look into the fact that whether quality can be assured rather than quantity assurance. We find millions of students who have completed their under graduation or Masters and still they fail to get a good job. And this is the point at which we have to ask “why?”
The reason is nothing other than the lack of exposures. The students are not provided ample opportunities to explore, instead, they are just having their zones of exploration restricted to their classrooms. The lack of exploration of real-life circumstances makes it harder for them to sustain in the modern competitive world. The new arena of life, working circumstances and challenges have to be researched by the individuals to make them productive and competitive enough to sustain any hardships that one might face in his/her career. Thus it is an obligation of any educational institute in developing and nurturing the skills especially the soft skills and social skills that one must possess to be worthy.
The concurrent education system has to be changed in such a way that more emphasis should be given on the aspects of increasing the employability skills, especially by giving them the real-life exposures such as industrial experiences, corporate internships and opportunities for expressing and bringing forward the new and innovative ideas.
It is literally a herculean task to bring up an unanticipated change in the fields of education by changing the entire scenario all at once. Instead, the changes should be brought up in the hearts and minds of the individuals evoking the necessity to go through a change that would mould them into surpassable products that future wants.
The lack of exposures is the paramount reason why India is lagging behind other developed countries in the fields of producing skilled personnel rather than producing unskilled well-educated people.
There should be a real metamorphosis that would create an everlasting transfiguration in the walks of life of the students which would give meaning to their struggles rather than making them impotent.
The change should begin today, right now as time being a recalcitrant factor waits for none. The new fields of education such as technology-enhanced learning, progressive educational practices have to be expedited. The students should be let to experience learning rather than studying. The emphasis should never be insisted but instead, it should be induced in them by cognizance.
The purpose of higher education has to be discerned. It is generally to nurture the talents, enhancing students capabilities in critical and logical thinking, aggrandize the basic skills in writing, speaking and listening. If the accentuation is just made on marks and syllabus, graduation becomes vacuous.
The students should be trained in such a way that they should have advancement in skills such as imaginative skills, analytical skills, language skills, teamwork and so on. With a view of understanding this basic indispensability, the education boards and the current acting universities should scrutinize ways for ameliorating productivity in undergraduate education by which the human and other resources are utilized judiciously.
The students should be made to realize their goals and passion, hence making them traverse their skills and talents leading to extracting the best out of their dexterity. And once this is possible India would be transmuted making it an unrivalled country. This is verisimilitude!
The main problem is conspicuous learning…sometimes students need to go somewhere to pursue their education.English is must and necessary in today’s world to gain something but most of the students who pursue their education till to introduce their identity to the reality of the world in the another way.Ofcourse studying or learning whatever it may be but education includes the communication and make a person knowledge one
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