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Students must be taught to learn and be adaptable to changes

Published by Afterschool.my on Sep 27, 2012, 07:57 am

  • While our government believes the bridging the skills gap is essential to economic growth, writer Tessa Munt MPthinks that the purpose of education is to prepare students to learn to work.
  • Education and training programmes has always been developed to match the needs of industry.
  • However, as Munt explains it, the changes of technology, rise of retirement age, and changes in employment as well as the extinction of many lifelong jobs would mean that most of us will change careers once, twice or more during our working lives.
  • She said that employers cannot expect young people to leave education with a set of skills that are matched identically to their intended careers.
  • "Better to give youngsters the skills that can be transferred to all professions rather than a narrow band of abilities," she said.
  • As an employer, Munt says that she is always on the lookout for potential - not necessarily for existing knowledge or a record of achievement - and for team members who reflect my approach to my work.
  • According to her it takes a few vital signals in the first minutes of meetings to decide whether a candidate is suitable for the job.
  • She mentioned some salient signs such as good manners, good communication, conversational and social skills, enthusiasm, a bright smile, eye contact, a good handshake, turning up with clean nails, shoes and an ironed shirt, being ready to listen and learn and showing interest in other people.
  • "I can rely on certificates for proof of basic literacy, numeracy and specialist knowledge...But unless there is a return to teaching and leading students in social skills - both for those who study academic and vocational subjects - there will remain a divide between those who attend schools that recognise the importance of social skills and those who do not," she concludes.
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