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Farmers are what today’s world need most

 

Today’s youth need a concerted effort to separate myth from reality and to enhance the value of skills. Vocational training will be enough to start working in your dream job.. Agriculture and like all other skills that provide jobs.
Tuesday 09/27/2022
Young people lack useful skills

 

 

Millions of children around the world enter schools every year bearing the dreams of their parents that they could not achieve in becoming doctors and engineers. Why not pilots or astronauts.. Parents’ dreams turn to their children, and then every graduate who failed to join the required specialty wants to be in a job. White collar.. Nobody wants to be a blue collar.

Then, in sum, millions of unemployed graduates…and thinking.

Statistics confirm that about 53 percent of recent university graduates in the world are unemployed. In Tunisia, for example, about 10,000 university graduates who have been unemployed for more than 10 years are asking the state to hire them.

The era of higher education around the world over the past thirty years can be described as the “era of random expansion.”

For thirty years, parents and young people have seen higher education as the only path to job security and success in life. Higher education has shifted from being a production good to a consumer good.

◙ Most young people are still stuck in the past as agriculture is a substandard job for various cultural, economic and structural reasons, relatively few young people are looking for jobs in agriculture

Today, the world is waking up to the “ticking time bomb” of youth unemployment from poor African cities to rich European cities, and this issue must be dealt with as seriously as humanitarian disasters and global efforts to eradicate diseases and combat climate change.

This has been the inevitable consequence of the deceptive expansion of the past thirty years of higher education based on one classic model: the academic public. It is not different in the Western world from the Arab world in this particular part.

Undergraduate education has provided general academic education rather than skill-based training, with the exception of specialized degrees such as medicine, law, engineering, and accounting.

The result was an unprecedented abundance of academically trained students without useful skills.. In the midst of it all, technical education faded with the resulting skills crisis in the missing link.

So what is the solution? Is it just about adding more education or improving its quality? Or is it about reducing higher education and increasing training by linking skills to job requirements? Or should a different kind of education and training be offered that focuses on skills other than cognitive skills? Or is it all of the above?

There is no doubt that the world needs major research universities to thrive and continue to attract large influxes of distinguished students. Instead, a certain type of traditional university expanded very randomly. And the world is now paying the price.

The poor quality of education and training systems and their unsuitability for the labor market have led employers in particular to view them as an obstacle, rather than a means, to obtaining good jobs.

Society allocates resources to educating individuals who do not produce economic value desired by employers. Instead, they would be better off if the money was spent on training these people to acquire skills to ensure that they could find suitable employment after graduation, rather than a general academic education.

A UNESCO study found that one needs three things to become a worker capable of meeting the requirements of employers: knowledge, skill and behaviour. Of these requirements, knowledge represents only 4 percent, skills 26 percent, and behavior 70 percent.

Agriculture today, for example, provides a good alternative to unemployment. It is like defusing the bomb.

◙ Statistics confirm that about 53 percent of recent university graduates in the world are unemployed

Global food markets are booming and recent trends in income growth, urbanization and diet have led to a sharp rise in the demand for food. Consequently, today’s world needs farmers more than unemployed graduates who do not produce anything.

Agri-food production continues to play an important role in terms of GDP, employment and environmental sustainability. When implemented successfully, the local food system can have a positive impact on three critical levels: environmental sustainability, economic viability and social justice. Working at these three critical levels generates opportunities for young workers to start new businesses, create qualified jobs, improve their quality of life and well-being, and strengthen their sense of belonging and inclusion in society.

Yet most young people are still stuck in the past as farming is a substandard job for various cultural, economic and structural reasons. Relatively few young people are looking for jobs in agriculture. Although a new report published by Deakin University in Australia has identified 100 jobs in demand in the future. The research project specifically looked at the future of work in an increasingly technology-driven society and explored major trends and changes in key industries. He found that four areas related to agriculture came first on the list, and in the end, it depends on what kind of career you want in agriculture.

For most entry-level jobs, you don’t need a specific qualification. All the skills and knowledge you need to excel in this field are taught through practical experience, which means that your vocational training will be enough to start working in your dream job.. Agriculture.

Compare to farming all the other skills that provide jobs. Today’s youth need a concerted effort to separate myth from reality and enhance the value of skills for fulfilling and impactful jobs.

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