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Spending a lot many years for higher education is becoming increasingly unpopular among youngsters across the world; rather many are out for quicker qualifications that bring in faster returns.

• How good is this change of attitude to higher education?
• Do you think it would adversely influence the society in someway?

Measuring higher qualifications in terms of the time involved for getting qualified is very common today. Looking at it from a learner’s angle, it is a right move, but from a social point of view, this is not that worth promoting.

When I take a cursory look at the idea, the first thing that comes to my mind is that it saves huge amount of time and energy of learners. This, in turn, makes all such learners fast earners. In today’s fast paced changes and emerging opportunities being able to earn faster is more important than spending ages for qualifications. For example, today higher education as such is possible on the job, and there are countless possibilities to make use of time round the clock. Naturally, getting a faster qualification leading to a career is much better in more ways than one.

However, things are not that fine with this change of attitude if we look at it from a social or national point of view. The point is a nation needs great number of highly qualified people to man strategic positions like, say, administrators, professors, resource persons, planners and the like. How is a nation going to meet this need if every one ignores what I call “positions of paramount priority”? Do not all the educated have a national role too to play? Yes, they do. So nation would get affected greatly, if this quicker and faster buck attitude is promoted.

To put it briefly, it is right to say higher education involving longer years is of greater significance. Quicker qualifications, on the other hand, may serve the immediate purposes of the educated. I would say, such a utilitarian approach is not that fine?


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