Though the sacred pillars of education have always been tabooed to be non-profit and social service ventures, I personally feel that there is a great need for individuals with Entrepreneurial minds married to a Socially sensitive hearts to dive in this sector and bring about change.
Though most of the universities and colleges in our country have socially driven mission statements, most of them only remain on paper. Today the colleges and universities have turned into educational factories where no serious attention is given to Quality aspects but only the numbers matter. We hear corporate shouting their hearts out, that the talent lacks employability but still our colleges focus on Percentages, ranks and percentiles. I seriously doubt whether they are right parameters to judge their "Employabilty".
The need of the hour is for entrepreneurial approach to this problem. An entrereneur is one who,
- Identify the skill set required in the industry
- Choose (hand-pick) the deserving and worthy students
- Initiate appropriate courses/programs to impart the skill set and exposure
- Promotes his students to the right (niche) roles.
- In the process create value for the student, himself and the institute/programme.
