‘No country has developed without the participation of women’

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‘No country has developed without the participation of women’

Thursday, 09 January 2020 | PNS

‘No country has developed without the participation of women’

Shobha Mishra Ghosh, Assistant Secretary General of FICCI, addressed students at the fourth edition of Dr Paarivendhar Lecture Series at SRM Institute, Kattankulathur

The future of jobs is the biggest challenge that we are facing today. And to overcome it, student-centric learning should be adopted, which includes teaching entrepreneurship. Professors should be mentors and they should also keep learning,” said Shobha Mishra Ghosh, Assistant Secretary General, FICCI.

She spoke to the students of MBA, BBA, BCA, Science and Humanities, and Science and Technology at the fourth edition of Dr Paarivendhar Lecture Series held at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur. She addressed the students on the topic, “Future Jobs in India and the Role of Universities.” Dr V Ponniah, Dean of SRM, said, “In future, it will get difficult to judge jobs and hence this lecture will throw some light on what to expect and how to cope up with the change.”

In his presidential address, founder-chancellor of SRMIST, Dr TR Paarivendhar said, “The scope for the job in the future is going to change. Such lectures are useful than classroom teaching. Students must show more interest as it presents exposure and help to know what is happening around. It could also help in clearing campus interviews. We are trying to nurture you with lots of information so that you can face this world in several new ways. If you stop learning, you stop living.”

Focussing on the purpose of education, Shobha said, “Apart from knowledge, employable skills, research and innovation, it is far more important to evolve and be an empathetic human being.” She added that our education system should contribute towards making students a good human being. This implies to thinkers and philosophers, entrepreneurs and professionals, scientists and researches.

“Everyone is talking about innovation. We should also see if this innovation is solving issues that we are facing today,” she questioned.

Talking about key global changes in the present scenario, she highlighted the impact of climate change, exponential technologies, urbanisation, demographic on the future jobs in India. We are now in the fourth industrial revolution and the change from the third to the fourth took place in a very short time. The transition to the fifth stage will be in less than three years, she emphasised.

“The effective working age of the population is reducing. The use of robots and cobots is gaining more popularity thereby replacing people. Now in developed countries, people will spend more time on leisure activity. This is something that we need to pay attention to as a developing nation. Soon customers are going to play a vital role in the manufacturing sector. Hence having a set of skills and upskilling is the need of the hour,” she said.

Speaking on how we are still lagging behind in our education system, Shobha said, “Our education still remains in the second revolution stage. Only a handful of countries have moved on to cater to the needs of the present time. Although India has advanced well in terms of rapid urbanisation, technology adaptation, we still need to harness our rural economy which contributes to 16 per cent of our GDP.”

Highlighting the workforce matrix 2022, she elaborated that nine per cent would be deployed in new jobs that do not exist today, 37 per cent would be in jobs that have radically changed skill set and 54 per cent will fall under the unchanged job category. These changes will primarily be in IT/BPO, automobile, banking and insurance, textile and apparel, retail. Most jobs will end and give way to 55 unique jobs roled across eight technologies such as VR, IoT, Big Data Analytics, AI, Robotic Process Automation, 3D Printing, cloud computing, social and mobile.

Talking about the new age pedagogy, she said, “The changing paradigm in our education has led to new age pedagogy. This leads to global classrooms, experiential learning and addressing diverse learners. Universities should teach students to think and be aware of what is happening around themselves. The learning in this 21st century is way different and the management must adopt them. Mentors should also take up different calibers of teaching. Many institutions are not adopting the latest technologies. Faculty should not shy away from learning from students. The creative economy has transcended into several sectors including IT, therefore our universities should also focus on liberal education.”

Shobha concluded by saying, “Women’s participation should increase. No country in this world has developed without the participation of women in the workforce.”

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