{"id":9155,"date":"2011-04-05T11:15:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9155"},"modified":"2011-04-05T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:43:35","slug":"india-experiencing-the-wrong-kind-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9155\/india-experiencing-the-wrong-kind-of-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"India Experiencing the Wrong Kind of Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\" http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703515504576142092863219826.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop \" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> reports that India\u2019s explosive growth in college graduates isn\u2019t translating into employment for millions of newly minted degree holders.\u00a0 The biggest problem: lack of critical thinking and communication skills.<\/p>\n<p>To compensate, companies are spending large sums of money coaching graduates into employability.\u00a0 According to one Indian business executive, the problem is the credential mentality infecting education:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHow are you able to change the mind-set that knowledge is more than a stamp?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sound familiar?\u00a0 American higher education too is tempted to treat knowledge-building as a service rather than a task.\u00a0 When students are treated like customers, the link between effort and reward is broken.\u00a0 The result is a certification that doesn\u2019t translate into employment.<\/p>\n<p>With half of India\u2019s 1.2 billion population under the age of 25, up to a million new workers a month are estimated to join the labor force over the next decade.\u00a0 If India continues down the path of graduating young people without critical thinking skills, those workers \u2013 and the growing Indian economy \u2013 will be in serious trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that India\u2019s explosive growth in college graduates isn\u2019t translating into employment for millions of newly minted degree holders.\u00a0 The biggest problem: lack of critical thinking and communication skills. To compensate, companies are spending large sums of money coaching graduates into employability.\u00a0 According to one Indian business executive, the problem is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2453,2560,19,64,1541,661,2076,2454],"class_list":["post-9155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-college","tag-credential","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-growth","tag-higher-education","tag-india","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9159,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155\/revisions\/9159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}