Thread by @RavikanthS_

#BrahminLivesMatter #CheGuevara
Why are so many youth unemployed?

The fault lies in following a one-size-fits all approach of our education.

We have given vocational education a miss. We give the same dose (syllabus) of education to all and sundry.

The lad from the village is given the same does as the kid from a city. Our education system is deeply flawed. So deep that it creates youth with the same skill set.

About 75% of all those passing the +2 exam do a graduation course in commerce.

Barely 15% take up pure science and the rest do a course in Humanities (which was at one time considered a course to do when you could not do anything else based on your +2 marks).

Our education system is a system by rote and all evaluation depends on

memory of the student to be able to reproduce what they have studied on a sheet of paper. No wonder then that most of the youth don't really acquire any skill that can come handy for a job.

Our job selection exams are a process of elimination.

They want to eliminate as many candidates as possible. Same in the case with all entrance exams. They are elimination exams and not a test of attitude or aptitude. While what matters in real life are these two key characteristics, attitude and aptitude.

These are difficult to assess therefore we are stuck in an archaic system of testing memory and giving marks.

Today, when companies are hiring a person, a graduate or even a post graduate, they find that the person is not a direct fit and needs to undergo

training all over again. Some are such misfits that they don't even have good communication (oral, written or otherwise) skills. As they have never worked in teams they don't know how to collaborate.

The result is that the nation suffers. No private company has the time, energy

and effort to keep training people for a job. There are very few jobs where people become productive from day one. The industry, though taking a hit, is not inclined to spend money for training people while they are in school or college.

There is no vision for better employ-ability of the youth. Most just drift through their graduation courses and at the end of it find that they hold a certificate that probably just gets them an interview call because they qualify for the basic requirement of the employer.

If we as a country have to rise, we need to junk the existing education system, lock-stock and barrel. We need to concentrate on many soft skills and create youth who use modern tools available to them, don't rely on memory, are team players, have the right kind of

attitude and aptitude for the work at hand.

We can't have a system of evaluation of performance through memory tests. That is the first thing that we need to discard. And we need to get the industry involved, if not 'a' industry, the industry

as a collective. Instead of giving money to an opaque fund called #PMCaresFund, they need to give money to educational institutions and design a program which tests for soft skills rather than memory.

Any company that tells a Pharmaceutical graduate to go create a molecule using memory rather the modern tools of research using globally available research data would be called stupid.

Let us not be stupid.

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