Expectations from the Pakistani Students in 21st Century.

Pakistani colleges and universities are doing a poor job of preparing graduates for today's workplace. The biggest weakness, in the secondary and post-secondary education sector, is the lack of experience, knowledge and willingness to know how today's workplace works.

Educational policy makers and administrators could not relate to the challenges graduates are facing in finding work and trying to make their living from contract, temporary, part-time and unrelated employment.

The main challenge for colleges and universities is how to bring out students with an entrepreneurial attitude and approach in doing business and finding work.

At present, our graduates expect that someone is going to offer them a job or they will apply for a job and will get it. When this does not happen, many hopeful graduates give up and end up in doing low paying jobs in the careers that has nothing to do with their qualifications and interests.

If our talented young people who have the brains and determination to graduate can't find meaningful work, then we need to address this issue seriously and now!

Graduates could not afford to wait for the colleges and universities to enter into the 21st century. They need to learn how to package, market and sell themselves effectively to employers and businesses; find hidden work opportunities and create their own jobs as well as their destination.

Importance of Career Counseling – Your Guide!

By Basit Saeed

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people pass matriculation in Pakistan. Many of them end up in high school (known as college or intermediate in Pakistan). Mostly students go for Pre-engineering because this way, they’d have the choice to opt commerce-related courses in the future. Unfortunately, over a fraction of the students who pass intermediate are able to study in universities because of the excessive pressure of making money to feed one’s family and quite expensive fee structure of the universities (a not-so-much-of-a-prestigious university offers a bachelor program in around 3.5-4 hundred thousand rupees. And that’s just basic tuition-fee. Not to mention all the other expenses like travel, stationary, course material, etc., make the overall cost reach 5-6 hundred thousand rupees.

Career Counselling

By Ali Moeen Nawazish


Monday, July 16, 2012

The News Education Expo is organized every year and it provides a platform for educational institutions to reach out to students across the major cities. This year the education expo happened bigger and better than ever in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore. A large number of people, particularly students of all level of education systems, many accompanied by their parents, visited the expo and took a keen interest in the event.

Employment has not kept pace with GDP growth

By Zafar-ul-Hassan Almas

Although most macro-economic indicators in Pakistan have improved in recent years, employment generation has notkept pace. Some critics describe this as a classic example of "jobless and joyless growth." The greatest challenge for Shaukat Aziz as prime minister, therefore, is to tackle the problem of unemployment.

Making choices: Career counselling in secondary schools

By Mariam Naeem Khan

American author Napoleon Hill has wisely remarked, “No man can succeed in a line of endeavour which he does not like” and it’s very true, indeed. One needs to be on the right career track coupled with an appropriate set of skills to flourish outright. However, deciding which career to opt for has, is and will always be a daunting task for many, especially young teenagers, who are faced with numerous career choices and are constantly bombarded with unsought, frivolous advise from virtually every one they meet in today’s world.