SHOULD EMPLOY ABILITY OF STUDENTS BE THE MAIN GOAL OF UNIVERSITIES?

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SHOULD EMPLOY ABILITY OF STUDENTS BE THE MAIN
GOAL OF UNIVERSITIES?Mr. Pusbhpinder Bhatia
Founder mapmystudy.com Speaks...In todays
competitive environment employability seems to be
a big driving force, changing strategies of many
institutes trying to woe students with outcome
stories and alumni success stories are becoming
more and more apparent.
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So real question to address is does education
really lead to employability or rather lets ask
should employment of students the main goal of
universities?The expectation...So, is it
important to study a program with employability
in mind, I guess that in itself is driven by your
own agenda in life or your present circumstances.
Much broader view on this comes from country in
which I currently live in India, education here
is treated as an investment which creates an
evident expectation of return on the investment,
quite self explanatory and I see this in many
other western countries aswell. I feel there are
3 driving forces that instigate such
expectations 1. The mind set of students in such
countries (culturally what is followed), 2. The
local competitiveness and the focus on survival
drives students to choose courses that have
strong employability, 3. The higher cost of
education these days for degree level programs. I
am quite often asked by parents during seminars
will my child get a Good Job after the course
suggested by you? this very question drives many
universities to focus on employability of
students as demand seems to be driving them
towards this and possibly their own objective is
more financially driven and not so much
academically driven.
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The ChallengeEmployability is important part of
the study cycle but should not be the only
driving force for education. Outcome of what you
learn needs to be put in practice and in real
life however how students might earn should not
be factor of consideration for institutes. It is
quite common for institutes to publish their
students start salaries and their on campus
corporate recruitment statistics to boost their
reputation but I guess institutes with strong
academics are able to keep the balance on quality
of education imparted and the outcome of their
students employability. From global prospective
this is the challenge for many institutes now
with rising competition to source students from
around the world, the fight to keep the class
room multicultural and at the end to make sure
you have a happy student who further refers his
friends to them on social media is successfully
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