SKILL EDUCATION NOT IN THOUGHT BUT IN ACTION

Skills are necessary for success in this technical world. Skills are the key in stimulating a sustainable development process and make a contribution to facilitating the transition from the informal to formal economy. Skills are also essential to address the opportunities and challenges to meet new demands of changing economies and new technologies in the context of globalization. At present, the scenario of school education is not very inspiring. All the stake holders of education are in a state of despair and indifference. Parents, consumed by the ambition of highly paying lucrative careers for their children, continue to push them for examination success and high grades. As a result, the focus has shifted from learning for better understanding to learning for examination success. The entire process becomes very monotonous and machine like and learning becomes dull and loses its significance. At this juncture, it becomes need of day to pay more and more attention on the development of skills in them.