Dearth of Education and Job Opportunities for Today’s Youth

It is a very prevalent problem with the youth of today, and the common thread is the same – there is a serious dearth of jobs and education, especially in Maharashtra – where the youth have always been at the forefront of any activity. Students with good Results are unable to get admission to a good college or a college of their choosing. The quota system often Results in students who have secured mediocre marks or less marks than the other students to get admission. This strikes a lot of meritorious students as unfair. 

Quotas Affecting Admission

Sometimes the quota seats have a price attached to them, and students from rural areas, whose fathers are poor farmers, are at a disadvantage here as well. Coming from low income households, they can hardly afford to pay a lakh or more for admission to an engineering college or elsewhere. In these situations, these students are forced to take admission in colleges that do not have as good standards, and their education takes a hit. What could be a really good opportunity to build the foundation of a solid career is lost.

Career Options Lost

The problem of being unable to get admission to the right colleges often forces students to rethink their career choices – making them go for second or inferior choices, or to change their career goals altogether. So this might lead to a student studying something he or she has no aptitude for, or no interest in. That cannot be a happy sign for the long term. It would ultimately affect the final Results and the final career option and could affect the rest of his or her life.

Education should be Merit-based

The concept of buying seats is something that should be totally done away with. Education has to be based on merit for it to be considered a proper system. You should not be able to buy your way into a good college while a better student is unable to, because of money constraints. That kind of education would make no sense at all. What the key stakeholders of the education sector need to realize is that this kind of approach will have a very negative effect on the industry in the long term.

As long as students without merit can buy their way into a good college, they will pass out and be considered unemployable because they did not have their way using their capabilities but used money as a way out. The job market then becomes full of such people who are undeserving of the degrees they have bought and the jobs they are seeking. Click here for more detail's

Such wrong practices should be done away with immediately for better employability of today’s youth.