Qualifications that go obsolete faster

Many higher education qualifications are becoming obsolete (outdated) much faster than ever.

Look at the causes and effects of this condition.

The need for lasting significance of higher education qualifications is felt everywhere, but what happens these days is the other way round and many programmes go irrelevant much more quickly than ever. There must be different causes for this, and the effects of which will be far reaching.  

Futuristic industry-friendliness is the primary quality of any higher education programme. Unfortunately, many new generation higher education service providers suffer from poor vision, and they frame courses that fail to meet a long-term goal of the market. This is the primary cause for this drifting relevance of many qualifications.

This is followed by the overnight changes that take place in the business, employment and industry environment. For example, knowledges are exploding, and out-of-the-box business ideas are springing up and diversification in the global employment landscape is almost a daily affair.  For example, a qualification that is cut for today’s industry may fail to satisfy an environment that is going to happen tomorrow. This story was entirely different sometime back say some 15 or 20 years back.

Moving on to the effects, the first thing is loss of time money and energy for the educated. They will have to go for fresher programmes every now and them. This is actually taxing and debilitating. This is followed by a social condition called ‘the educated enigma’. The thing is there are people educated and at times employed. But, most of the time, they are inadequately educated and, eventually, under-employed. And, finally, it may be said that qualifications that go meaningless faster will render the whole education scene hopeless. People may lose faith in it.   

In short, different academic regimes may have many different factors that make qualifications irrelevant, but the consequences of which, in my view, would be same across the spectrum. The time for lasting qualifications is around.  

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A jaypeesdoc. 27.6.15