Opinion / Columnist
Graduates have fallen to the reality of unemployment
22 Jan 2015 at 10:46hrs | Views
In most countries, graduates have fallen to the reality of un employment!
The traditional noble idea of getting education, then a better life is greatly threatened. You hear of those who did not go to schools boast of not having wasted their time.
In face of that, the educated have failed to justified themselves. I still believe in education being the key to success albeit, that most languish having acquired it.
Education should move with time, always re-orienting its systems.
The education most of us Africans are receiving is seek a job education - never a create a job one.
As a result the influx of job seekers is so perplexing. On the other hand, job creators are few. Hence the plea for foreign investment in our countries that live us but so dependent on investors.
Am not total against the FDIs, but I envy a system wherein there is a tradeoff between domestic and FDIs. All that can be realised if we review our education systems such that they promote job creation.
As Developers, lets come up with an Agency to that effect. An agency that will be research oriented, seeking to fish from communities of what they value and need most so that the educational provisions endeavour to meet that end.
The agency can also serve as an independent evaluative tool that will seek to polish up of the adopted policies.
Most people are so much immersed in any catch up development thought. Ever imagining how they can best fit to the already existing systems. Never giving it a thought that the systems they love so much, can have loopholes. It is high time we changed the systems and attune them to relevance.
All that can be done through education. I real would cheer to see our cultures developed. The traditional things we have kept confined within our cultures should be developed and qualified to make it to the global markets. Thats what has kept other continents ahead of us. They have promoted their cultures to our admiration and thus made a market in our on countries.
Why can not we do the same with our cultures. Well, all that can be achieved only if education is brought to relevance. Relevance in this sense will not be a fit in frenzy to the already existing system but generating our own system such that we become the determinants of the rules. We need that portion as Africans where we should have command in. To be continued!!
mathewuniquedube85@gmail.com
The traditional noble idea of getting education, then a better life is greatly threatened. You hear of those who did not go to schools boast of not having wasted their time.
In face of that, the educated have failed to justified themselves. I still believe in education being the key to success albeit, that most languish having acquired it.
Education should move with time, always re-orienting its systems.
The education most of us Africans are receiving is seek a job education - never a create a job one.
As a result the influx of job seekers is so perplexing. On the other hand, job creators are few. Hence the plea for foreign investment in our countries that live us but so dependent on investors.
Am not total against the FDIs, but I envy a system wherein there is a tradeoff between domestic and FDIs. All that can be realised if we review our education systems such that they promote job creation.
As Developers, lets come up with an Agency to that effect. An agency that will be research oriented, seeking to fish from communities of what they value and need most so that the educational provisions endeavour to meet that end.
The agency can also serve as an independent evaluative tool that will seek to polish up of the adopted policies.
Most people are so much immersed in any catch up development thought. Ever imagining how they can best fit to the already existing systems. Never giving it a thought that the systems they love so much, can have loopholes. It is high time we changed the systems and attune them to relevance.
All that can be done through education. I real would cheer to see our cultures developed. The traditional things we have kept confined within our cultures should be developed and qualified to make it to the global markets. Thats what has kept other continents ahead of us. They have promoted their cultures to our admiration and thus made a market in our on countries.
Why can not we do the same with our cultures. Well, all that can be achieved only if education is brought to relevance. Relevance in this sense will not be a fit in frenzy to the already existing system but generating our own system such that we become the determinants of the rules. We need that portion as Africans where we should have command in. To be continued!!
mathewuniquedube85@gmail.com
Source - Concerned Citizen
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