Sustainable Education: Skills or Degree?
by Arowoduye Feranmi
Tuesday December 7, 2021
2 min read
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Everyone wants to be a champion, I guess I know a quick fix. Care to know? Dive in! There’s been a lot of talks lately about the future of education: is education steering towards skill or degree? Which of these do you think the future world would support? What is sustainable education and how do we create it? In this post, we would look into what sustainable education is, lay bare how sustainability can be adopted in the educational system, and finally decide on what the future of education would be; Skills or Degree? Let’s scrap in and get going.
What is Sustainable Education?
First, sustainable education is not the same thing as education
for sustainability which is about teaching the cores of
sustainability. Sustainable education is kinda practical. It is
about finding long-lasting solutions to social, environmental,
and economic issues. I will say, this is about using whatever
kind of education you have to proffer sustainable solutions to
pressing issues in our communities. Education in this case could
be our degrees or skills we have learned and developed.Now that
we have understood what sustainable education is, I need you to
think about how we can achieve this. Will our degrees, lessons
learned in school do the job, or do we need some saving grace
called skills? A degree or skills? How would we proffer
long-lasting solutions to our society's pressing needs?
Degree or Skills
Now that we have understood what sustainable education is, I
need you to think about how we can achieve this. Will our
degrees, lessons learned in school do the job, or do we need
some saving grace called skills? A degree or skills? How would
we proffer long-lasting solutions to our society's pressing
needs?
However, the students of the 21st century are expected to
develop and grow higher-order thinking skills, engaging
knowledge in flexible and creative ways. They are also required
to demonstrate advanced scientific thinking, analyze conflicting
evidence, and make calculated and informed decisions to solve a
wide variety of real-life problems. In addition, to solve
pressing issues in society, they are needed to develop
higher-order social skills in order to collaborate and negotiate
with other people, and respect social diversity. They need to
develop communication and literacy skills, allowing them to
process information.
It is widely known that companies are looking for individuals
who know their onions and hiring managers tend to put skills
above your degree. Is this really so? Have you ever come across
a job post that needed a certain type of degree to have an edge?
Take a writing freelancing gig as a case study, writing skills
can be developed but then, most clients appreciate those with a
Bachelor in English, Arts, or even Communication.
What would be your choice? Degree, Skills or both?
In sustainable education, students acquire what is necessary and
useful to address their own, and society’s, present and future
needs: students acquire these competencies to full-blown,
sustainable levels, that is, to an extent that the competencies
are truly incorporated and can be further developed later on in
life.
Conclusively, the future of education will be to incorporate
both soft and industry-required skills into our orthodox
educational structure, that is, while we pursue a degree, we add
skills to it. Let me tell you something you can start doing.
TedX is a program of self-organized events that bring people
together to share technology, entertainment, and design-like
experiences. To achieve this, it will require the collaboration
of different people. It will also provide a space to learn and
build some of these skills. You should consider joining our
volunteer family to get started.