In job markets, a higher education degree is often a road to nowhere
Live MintHyderabad/Bengaluru: At 19, Kalyan Reddy is like any other college-goer: ambitious, vulnerable and unsure of his future. Most of the recent notifications for government job vacancies have been for the post of a constable in the police department, not university jobs which many qualified candidates have been waiting for, he says. “Students enrol themselves in public universities to get a subsidized stay while looking for jobs in Hyderabad,” says Manne Krishank, a student leader who was involved in the Telangana statehood agitation and is now with the Congress party. “It’s the lack of skill and not the lack of opportunity which is the real problem,” says a senior official in the Telangana government public service commission, who requested anonymity. While lack of skills may indeed be a concern, it is also true that aspirations rise along with higher education and the highly educated are increasingly choosing not to “settle” for just any available job.
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