The Edu-Gap

The education to employment gap is the most prominent and highly spoken about throughout the world. The journey of a student is not as easy as it seems and surely does not go as planned. The journey is filled with speed breakers in a marshy terrain with swamps and dead ends. At every such dead ends there is an opportunity to build a bridge and continue the journey. To get the metaphor in context, when a student finishes 10th, he builds a bridge with his capabilities(marks) and goes into higher secondary. He then finishes 12th and again builds a bridge to get into graduation. He then finishes his graduation and tries to build a bridge and invariably fails and either settles with a low profile post graduation or ends up with a struggling/not so satisfied/different domain/different location job. This is largely the cause for unemployment in our country. How do we stop this? there are 2 possible solutions that i reckon in my popular consciousness. One, develop a curriculum that will teach you to bridge the gap. Two, increase the possible ways the gap could be filled. The former way is a damn! hard way to go about, changing the curriculum. The latter solution seems more plausible and interesting. What more jobs can be opened up for the people? which is satisfying, enriching and valuable. Being an Entrepreneur and all the Entrepreneurs i dealt with, feel a sense of responsibility towards the society we live in, and contribute to fill this gap which affects a large part of our population. 

A lot of attention and  importance is given to the corporate and government jobs and we have no knowledge nor inclination to do anything other than that. Partly this is because we have been taught to save our future and gain financial security. We really do not understand the value of a human skill. We have no idea about our own potential. Noble professions like teachers are taken as a part-time or a substitute job(internship) till one finds a traditional job. This paradigm needs to transform. Every profession should be equally regarded, financially teachers are on par with any other profession. Mentality should change. In the early 2000's the start-up culture did not accelerate as it has today. People have slowly witnessed the value of starting a company and living their dream. Likewise more opportunities and avenues should be open to professions like teachers to find its way to be popular in this world of conventions.