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Our education system is full of flaws – from its division into various sections to lack of innovation and modernization. Although the situation has improved with the inclusion of the private institutions in the mainstream education system, however, there is still a need to revamp the overall system briskly.
One of the flaws that can be found in it is the generation of the servants it has produced, in other words, ’employees, who are only supposed to hunt for a job when they complete their studies’.
Let’s take an example of one of the oldest institutions of Punjab, Hailey College of Commerce. There are hundreds of students of Commerce (about 600) who graduate from it annually, but only some of them have chances of getting employed. Others either go for blue-collar jobs, which do not suit them academically and personality-wise or wait at home for months. The state of affairs of students from other academic backgrounds is also identical.
The students lack opportunities and frankly speaking the universities too. The faculty does not prop up entrepreneurship, but favor students becoming employees.
On the other hand, the private institutions also could not generate a long list of entrepreneurs. Possessing a small business is much better than having a job in an organization. The government and private entities should rally round the students financially as well as non-financially in this regard. The laid off younkers should also hit upon ways to move ahead to develop into entrepreneurs.
Contemporarily, the graduates can make the most of the world of internet that is filled with low-cost opportunities to excel. Entrepreneurship effects in the short run might not be lucrative but in the long run, it will help gaining enormous financial as well as non-financial benefits.
The didactic institutions should instill a spirit of leadership among the young generation rather than making them robots and employees for corporate sector for their whole life. In the beginning, there might be a predicament, but with the passage of time, things will get better.
The youth of Pakistan is full of novelty and creativity, the only thing that they are in search of is the back-up and inspiration that can only be gained from the ideas-generating places which are the educational institutions. In short, it is better to be a boss of a small business than to be a servant of a huge one.
