REPORT ON SUMMER SKILL SKOOL
Mr. Sanal Krishnan
Programme Manager , DPMU
Summer vacation is a much awaited time, by both students and parents alike. This is the time for students to get out of their daily schedule of school syllabus. Summer vacation gives a beautiful opportunity for the students to embrace their inhibited skills and talents by attending various camps, fun activities, group programmes, short term courses etc. Nowadays, we see a trend in students especially those who are tenth and twelfth completed engaging themselves in various summer vacation programmes which are close to their interests and would assist them in developing their employable and personal skills.
are close to their interests and would assist them in developing their employable and personal skills.
The present global situation demands a huge number of skilled man power, but the present education system is not sufficient enough to create the required skilled man power. The number of people completing the professional graduation courses is more than 15 lakhs every year. But in that the number that are employable is less than 1 lakh which is almost 7% of the total passing out students. Of these the number of persons who get a job is less than 10 thousand. What can happen when such a large population of youth do not get jobs? Experts say that this may cause serious instability in the economic and social conditions in the country, along with wide scale dissatisfaction and disillusionment.
In India 65% of the population are under 35 years which makes India as the country having the largest youth force. We need youth having skills which the industry needs. Only then the youth popuation will be able to contribute to the country's growth.
Though the number of universities, colleges and programmes are going on increasing in the country, the lack of quality in education persists. Profit-hungry managements, lack of skill education, uncontrolled corruption, the conventional learning methods, and shortage of faculty both in quantity and quality are the major issues plaguing higher education.
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