With recession round the corner, getting jobs is biggest nightmare in current scenario. Current slowdown has opened the pandora box and challenged the education system in India. If I could flashback period before 15-20 years ago, getting graduate degree from a college would open many new avenues for employment but now BA/BSc are far from even considered to be a degree and BE/BTech has replaced BA/BSc. There is hardly any guy who is ready to settle down for less than an engineering degree. Now this again raises the bigger question regarding employability of the candidate. Recent study says those more than 50 % of the engineers are unemployable. As per 2008 stats around 8 lakh engineers are graduating every year from approximately 2400 engineering college across the country. The irony of it all is that the engineering colleges which supposed to churn out professionals are actually getting reduced to degree vending machines producing largely good for nothing engineers.
Here is the time to seriously introspect ourselves and think about getting back the identity you lost among such large number of professional. The young Indian youth has come out of his comfort zone of mere job after graduation and started thinking for stability in future. Current recession was an eye opener which paved the way for higher education ME/MTech/MBA in India. The count of engineering graduates fighting for these courses has suddenly increased by leaps and bound. The coaching institutes have become active and one can easily see the spike in the count of students enrolling for these courses.
Hey students! What are you thinking now? It’s not about quantity but its quality which matters. We have progressed generation by generation. Our 10+2+3 education system has changed to 10+2+4 which will soon transform to 10+2+4+2, once every individual realize the power of higher education.
In the word of Aristotle “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet”.
