Never let a good crisis go to waste – Winston Churchill

The pandemic has given us the opportunity to rethink and reassess the strategies for Higher Education. Times of crisis ought to inspire creativity, critical reflection, transformation and renewal. In the new normal, the challenge is to adapt, regenerate and position the college for a strong and sustainable tomorrow. We will have to prepare for the trend that is to dominate the Post-Covid world as you cannot outrun the future if you don’t see it coming.

Historically, education has been the shortest bridge between haves and have-nots, bringing progress and prosperity for both individual and the nations, but the current education system is showing its age. Founded at a time when industries needed workers with a relatively fixed set of skills and knowledge, it is losing its relevance in an era of innovation, disruption and constant change, where adaptability and learning agility are most needed. We are not producing future-ready and market-ready Human Resource to fill the skill-gap. In our country, Un-employability is a bigger issue than the Unemployment.

We need to look at India’s massive skill gap to achieve our hopes of an 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'. This means we need to focus more on skill and employment in order to accelerate the demand for a skilled workforce.