| | 8 April 2018HIGHERReviewIN MY VIEWIn a large and ultra-competitive society like ours, the need for formal education cannot be over-em-phasized. As vocational education has a huge role to play in employment creation as everyone cannot (and probably should not) be aiming towards a career reliant on formal education. Unfortunately, in our country, the jobs being offered through vocational education are not seen to be as attractive/ lucrative as those that go to `highly educated' people.The biggest issue we have is that we are a country that prides itself on having a few islands of excellence in a sea of mediocrity. Some IITs/NITs and a few IIMs along with some NLUs and NIDs along with a handful of good private institutes are all we can boast of for such a huge country. What is stopping the government/private play-ers to seed the cities of India with high quality educational institutions? In my view, the answer to this question is not lack of funds, but lack of quality faculty. Lack of funds may seem to be the issue, but faculty availability is a much bigger issue. The question that one needs to then ask is - why is faculty availability such an issue in so vast a country? The answer for this would be a combination of social and systemic issues. REVAMPING YOUR SKILLS, STRENGTHS AND ABILITIESManek N Daruvala, Founder & Director, Triumphant Institute of Management Education (T.I.M.E)
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