Raining Graduates

OF CURRICULUMS AND CORPORATIONS Where do these graduates go from there 

AT LEAST A MILLION WILL take the stage this year as part of the graduates of 2018. And from a statistical standpoint, that is a significant number of workforces that might be able to help in the development of a nation. 

But not all of them are into it. Many of them will immediately leave the country and work abroad as soon as they secured their diplomas, some might even go into business, while others simply rot and become a burden, so to speak, to their communities. That has always been the routine since, and it hasn’t let up.

There has been an overload of graduates over the years. Though some of them may have great courses and graduated from respectable schools, the problem, however, is in the placement of these said graduates. The elephant in the room is that how come a lot of them end up not using their respective degrees in relation to their prospective work, or worse, not having any job at all. 

Over the years, the apparent disconnect between the academe and the corporate world has had its ups and downs. And because the demands outside of the school are changing faster than the curriculum does, these new graduates are forced to step up even before they could adjust to their new jobs. It is as if those who are preparing the payroll are at odds with those who are preparing to recruit them.  

It doesn’t look good. And changes have to be made. We can’t afford to lose a number of highly qualified graduates who would opt out of the country and go to London perhaps and lend their talents on some foreign land (or company for that matter), while we suffer ourselves with what’s left of the bunch. No disrespect to those who are still in the country and grinding it out, it is just that we are usually left with not enough choices at all as an immediate result. 

Graduates are forced to do some adjustments to fit in. And I hope that this K-12 program can offset the disparity happening between what these graduates want and what this country needs as far as workers are concerned. 

We don’t have any hold if some of them would want a career outside of the country, want we want, though, is to have enough choices or opportunities in our turf for us to generate new sets of contributions that these graduates are capable of giving. Imagine Canada or Australia, having seen their economy booming in numbers, just because a large part of the Filipino community has had their contribution to it? Why can’t we have that in here? Why not?

I think I know why, but I’m not going to say it anyway, for obvious reasons. For now, though, what we need is to create avenues for these graduates for them to think about building the nation and that the government returning the favor. That may sound highfalutin to some degree, but we need to start somewhere. 

We can’t just watch these kids and play their games outside; we need to take them in for the rainy season as well.