Education For The Future

1. A rapid shift is taking place from industrial work to information technology work now a days
2. Employees must be educated more versatile, flexible and multi-task oriented to meet the needs of the hour
3. Management mentality’’ is becoming a prerequisite for an ordinary worker
4. In education institutions teaching must be tailored to develop flexibility working well with others and problem solving qualities in the student
5. Specialized education is becoming more and more important replacing the general education
6. Group work in educational institution to a better way for the future of students
7. Colleges be a focal point for the information technology age a preparation

During the past few decades we have seen a shift from industrial work to information technology work. Our country is in an economic depression. This is depression is a ‘’wake up call’’ for many people as they saw highly educated people loosing their jobs. Why, are these educated people loosing their jobs? Did they break the rules, not get along with their bosses, or lose their cool? No, they did not have the flexibility, versatility, and cooperative skills that are needed in business for a changing economy. They were educated in a time when liberal art educations, and individualized work skills were taught at colleges. Layoffs were also due in part to the globalization of economy. Cheaper imports can be found from other countries, which results in the closing of local factories or drastic cut in pay for work available. As most Pakistanis used to be in the same economic bracket regardless of their line of work, today a worker’s real competitive position in the world economy depends on what kind of job they have. Education is the key to creating the worker’s demanded from business today.

In almost all other workplaces today, employers are not only looking for highly skilled workers, but for people who are flexible, work well with others and have good problem solving skills. Colleges must implement new teaching approaches and offer specialized degrees now, to prepare students for the needs of employers in the information-technology age. A worker must be flexible to be able to change and grow with the economy and the needs of employers is very important in today’s job market. With corporate downsizing and restructuring so prevalent, employers are demanding more of their employees. They must be more versatile and multi-task oriented. Employees must be able to move from one job to another, and learn new tasks quickly. The more education they have the easier it is to adapt prevalent for today’s workers. To stay at the top of their fields in knowledge and technology, employees must constantly be up-dating their education.

Flexibility also ties in with the skill of working well with other people. To listen and interact with others in your profession, you must be flexible or open minded to their opinions, ideas and insights. Interaction with other employees and being a ‘’people person’’ enforces cooperative skills. These cooperative skills can benefit the company as a whole, just as the Nobel Prize winner games Watson said ‘’Nothing new that is really interesting comes with out collaboration. These cooperative skills once taught only to management, now must be integrated to the employees, as many management positions have been eliminated.

Workers must now possess a ‘’management mentality,’’ so that they can co-exist and work beneficially together. Problem solving skills are a necessity for even the simplest of jobs. A high order of problem solving skills are needed for more advanced positions jobs such as in aviation (pilots), and in computers and others technical jobs. Having the ability to work through problems to come up with a position end result can be a long and arduous task. The people who have these problems solving skills can organize more learning, and help others to succeed in solving problems. Group cooperation heightens and speeds up the time in which it takes to solve problems. It makes for an easier and more efficient approach to problem solving.

As we can see the three main qualities of flexibility, working well with others and problem solving are very closely linked. Workers must be flexible to work well with others, which is important in having better problem solving skills. Missing just one of these qualities dampens the ability of worker to be the productive employee, and are difficult to learn. That is why they must be implemented early on in colleges and universities.For year educational institutions have been ignoring the power of team work and achievements that could not have been made with out it. The problem lies itself with the faculty.

It is their job to implement cooperative learning into classes, and make it work. This is not an easy task, which is why many professors have opted to stick with lecturing. ‘’Every time I am at school or attending training seminars, I am at school or attending training seminars, I am struck by how inactive students are expected to be. Most of the time students simply sit, while the teacher lecture them. It is much easier for student to experience the learning lather than having the answer told to them. Cooperative learning is the heart of problem based learning. Group work allows students to network their thought and ideas, which than can be expanded with-in-the group. They motivate each other by sharing their ideas and findings. The flexible group which work together can find solutions to problems quickly and efficiently, which is key in today’s workplaces.

Specialized degrees and education provide students with the expert skills needed in today’s top jobs. Businesses and companies do not want people with general liberal arts degrees they want specialist in their field. A pilot needs special skills to fly an airplane that he/she can not get through a liberal art degree. Employers are only going to hire a pilot with the most and best qualifications. This is true in most all jobs that require a degree employers want only the best.

Some many argue that group work is not good because some people do the work and others take the easy road doing little. This can sometimes be true in classes, but in the work environment, It is rare. Professional adults do not have enough time to let their co-workers not to their share of the work, they will take action by speaking with the boss. To combat these problems in educational institutions, professors must set the parameters for the group. The others in the groups, so that he/she cannot succeed unless the others do. Industrial accountability however will be judged by tests and teacher observation of the group. The professor will teach the students how to socially interact with each other. Students will have to help others, contribute their own ideas and offer supportive advice, Lastly and very importantly is teaching the group to engage in group processing. This exercise will help the students to find ways to processing. This exercise will help the students to find ways to improve their group efforts. Being taught these group problem solving skills during study better prepares students for the type of work they will have to do in the workplace.

To prepare workers for the information technology age the starting point will have to be colleges. Colleges educate the school teacher and college professors of the future. The sooner colleges begin to use cooperative learning the sooner it will trickle down into elementary and secondary schools. Thus making cooperative learning a part of students lives earlier, so they will sooner adjust to it’s style. College professors must implement cooperative learning now, to teach flexibility and working well with others. This change is imperative not only to the success of workers but the entire economy. Workers with out these skills are at a serious disadvantage in getting jobs, and keeping them.