‘Instead of accusing Gen-Z of lacking skills or discipline, we need to ask what drives them’
The HinduIndia has been staring at a severe unemployment crisis with about 24 million out of the 556 million labour force being unemployed. Arun Rajamani, Managing Director of Cambridge University Press & Assessment, South Asia, spoke to The Hindu on the sidelines of the event about the critical skills that need to be imparted to people to be part of a global workforce, the many persisting challenges that could be addressed with industry-academia collaboration and the paradox of abundance of talent and rising unemployability. Three of them, together play a bigger role in a person’s success and ability to work in a global workforce as compared to just the domain skills. If the industry, academia, government policy makers and the skills programmes come together, short term solutions can be implemented while we think about the longer-term solutions. Given that English language and communication skills are going to be critical to build a global workforce, wouldn’t NEP’s strong push in terms of making regional language the medium of instruction in schools pose a hindrance?
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