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Apr 01, 2026 | #1
The education system is becoming inefficient in ways that continue to see many college graduates fed into the market while they are not ready for what awaits them in the workplace and the global economy at large. As a result, there are increasing percentage of fresh graduates who are inherently incompetent in meeting the demands of today's economy. As reports about incompetency of college graduates continue to infiltrate media, it is in order that this matter be revisited and some key issues that may be causing this concern be brought to light. The essay hereby focuses on unearthing key issues that make college graduates unable to keep up with the pace of today's economy.
The education system is not able to keep up with the pace of today's global economy because the syllabus cannot change at that fast pace. For example, the shifting geopolitical landscape witnessed between 2015 and 2016, first with Brexit(Wright 3-7) and then the US elections(Holodny, Oyedele, & Bryan par. 1-6), were examples of instantaneous shifts that were never anticipated. Yet it is true that aforementioned issues led to changes in the global economies in significant ways. A clear influence of the geopolitical dynamics was the violent reaction of the financial markets, which required outstanding skills on part of graduates to be able to withstand the hullabaloo and emerge as winners. Instead, it became very clear that since most stock markets are ill-equipped to handle such issues, it then became that what was actually uncalled for rapid and violent reaction was the move that most markets undertook. Later, it emerged that Brexit did not have immediate catastrophic effects on the markets as many stock markets had anticipated and hence it was irresponsible on marketers to make it a big issue as they did. This is partly to blame on the flexibility of the education system to reflect such unprecedented changes and possible ways to mitigate them.
The second issue that gives rise to incompetent college graduates for today's economy is the rise of academic assistance business that have pushed many college-going students to their comfort zones. In turn, most college graduates have no hands-on experience neither do they articulate skills taught in various courses. Imagine a student who since he or she joined college had all the class assignments and exams done by a professional writer somewhere. It is very unlikely that such a graduate will have the right skills inculcated in him or her to face the challenges of a dynamic global economy today.
Far much worse is that even organizations are unable to discern this kind of incompetency at the time of hiring because the graduates also get enough drilling on how to pass their interviews too. Since this may be a one-time event, what today's graduates need to do is to prepare adequately for the interview, pass, be hired and start working on what they don't really understand. This does not mean that all graduates are of this kind, but we can bet that sooner or later, it will be the case as such crop of graduates continue to pour out into the job market.
In summary, the education system has failed fundamentally to equip college graduates with the right skills for a global economy of many challenges. This failure is attributed to the inflexible syllabus that cannot adapt to the rapid changes in today's economy and the inability to curb academic assistance that deny students chance to engage in hands-on activities with their course work. In the end, college graduates ill-equipped continue to poor into the already vulnerable global marketplace.
Works Cited
Holodny, Elena, Akin Oyedele, and Bob Bryan. "Markets are cratering as Trump closes in on the presidency". Business Insider. 9 Nov. 2017.
Wright, William. "The Potential Impact of Brexit on European Capital Markets: A Qualitative Survey of Market Participants". New Financial. April, 2017l6. PDF.
The education system is not able to keep up with the pace of today's global economy because the syllabus cannot change at that fast pace. For example, the shifting geopolitical landscape witnessed between 2015 and 2016, first with Brexit(Wright 3-7) and then the US elections(Holodny, Oyedele, & Bryan par. 1-6), were examples of instantaneous shifts that were never anticipated. Yet it is true that aforementioned issues led to changes in the global economies in significant ways. A clear influence of the geopolitical dynamics was the violent reaction of the financial markets, which required outstanding skills on part of graduates to be able to withstand the hullabaloo and emerge as winners. Instead, it became very clear that since most stock markets are ill-equipped to handle such issues, it then became that what was actually uncalled for rapid and violent reaction was the move that most markets undertook. Later, it emerged that Brexit did not have immediate catastrophic effects on the markets as many stock markets had anticipated and hence it was irresponsible on marketers to make it a big issue as they did. This is partly to blame on the flexibility of the education system to reflect such unprecedented changes and possible ways to mitigate them.The second issue that gives rise to incompetent college graduates for today's economy is the rise of academic assistance business that have pushed many college-going students to their comfort zones. In turn, most college graduates have no hands-on experience neither do they articulate skills taught in various courses. Imagine a student who since he or she joined college had all the class assignments and exams done by a professional writer somewhere. It is very unlikely that such a graduate will have the right skills inculcated in him or her to face the challenges of a dynamic global economy today.
Far much worse is that even organizations are unable to discern this kind of incompetency at the time of hiring because the graduates also get enough drilling on how to pass their interviews too. Since this may be a one-time event, what today's graduates need to do is to prepare adequately for the interview, pass, be hired and start working on what they don't really understand. This does not mean that all graduates are of this kind, but we can bet that sooner or later, it will be the case as such crop of graduates continue to pour out into the job market.
In summary, the education system has failed fundamentally to equip college graduates with the right skills for a global economy of many challenges. This failure is attributed to the inflexible syllabus that cannot adapt to the rapid changes in today's economy and the inability to curb academic assistance that deny students chance to engage in hands-on activities with their course work. In the end, college graduates ill-equipped continue to poor into the already vulnerable global marketplace.
Works Cited
Holodny, Elena, Akin Oyedele, and Bob Bryan. "Markets are cratering as Trump closes in on the presidency". Business Insider. 9 Nov. 2017.
Wright, William. "The Potential Impact of Brexit on European Capital Markets: A Qualitative Survey of Market Participants". New Financial. April, 2017l6. PDF.