It is a dream for every student to graduate and get gainfully employed. However, upon return from their brief internship, many would report privately about their disillusionment with the way organizations work or treat them. While the fortunate few seek release from such organizations through job changes or self employment, rest of them consign themselves to suffering their predicament with abject resignation.
The educational institution and the student in question, consequently invite needless discredit.
Is this what the students really want:
- Transit quickly from being treated as a vanilla student to a distinguished executive.
- Feel comfortable learning the subject to be ‘interview ready’
- Declare some level of applied proficiency in the subject to be ‘internship ready’ and
- Demonstrate the value of their potential with conviction to be employable and ‘intake ready.’
Is this how we teach today:
- Every topic is taught as a subject (theory, models, formula and equations) that students are required to memorize
- Organizations are viewed as factory-like mechanical entities (comprising of geometric shapes punctuated with anecdotal references to historical events) with
- The people being inducted and moved through lines and boxes, by the divine hands of some ‘management,’ as if they were mere coins on a chessboard?
