Re:Orient Episode 1: From Schooling to Skilling

Описание: Welcome to Re:Orient, a podcast by Asia Society India and Dalberg that covers the most pressing issues in South Asia, from AI and education to air pollution and the changing geopolitical order. Inakshi Sobti, CEO Asia Society, and Gaurav Gupta, Global Managing Partner Dalberg Advisors, bookend each episode with key questions that lie at the heart of the issue, giving us insights on where South Asia lands on each theme.
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Episode 1:

In an ideal scenario, a child’s educational journey begins in a classroom and culminates in an office. In school, the child acquires a solid foundational education, which equips her years later for a good job. That is the popular picture of success.

This journey should ideally be a pipeline delivering workforce-ready students. However in reality, the collective journey suffers pitfalls such as drop-offs in middle-school, poor foundational education that leaves students ill equipped for the workforce. How is this gap between education and employability to be bridged?

At the foundational level, the course of this journey can be corrected by introducing socio-emotional learning, which imparts skills that are handy in real-life situations and in one's career such as relationship building and decision-making. At the career stage, ed-tech organizations offer specific skills that equip people to adapt to the evolving demands of the workplace. This is particularly empowering for women keen to join the workforce remotely as Harappa demonstrates and for graduates from low-economic backgrounds as shown by HCL's TechBee programme.