Formal Education is All Hunted by All

Yanza, indeed you are right that having formal education is very important to everyone of us. Those who have enough skills but don't have proper formal education, still unable to earn a good income. That's what i observed after seeing what happened to my cousin. Although she had many years of skills in her chosen career but lack of formal education had caused her to received lower salary scale than her other colleagues. Now, she is trying her best to study part-time, to upgrade her formal education level.

Yes at some point I do think I agree with you. It is basically the skills which gets paid and not humans. Anyone who possess it will flourish. But you also need to think from companies point of view. No doubt they want skilled people, but how can they guess it from the face whether someone is skilled or not. They rely on the degrees and formal education. Documents are nothing but the valid statement that proves the person talented in some field. It is easy to guess the strengths of an individual by seeing his qualification. I think this is probably why formal education and certificates are indeed important.

It is the same thing happening here in our country. Companies hiring professionals with experiences. Good thing that call center companies choose our country for outsourcing and they are giving undergrad students chances to have a decent work/job and expose their skills and talents as well.

It is how the world is become.I have seen people get formal education like that and they don't have skills but get good jobs. Poor are staying poor and rich getting richer. It is every where in the world. I hope there was a system that was something different. Schools are so expensive. And there is so much competition. The college fees is rising by the day. plus the tuition and the expensive text books. you won't believe in The University of the South Pacific in Fiji is so expensive. they require text books that you will not get in any other shop in the whole of Fiji. They have USP book store. People have no choice but to buy from there.. some books cost $200 and more. And on top of that what they do is they make a new edition every year so that people don't look forward to buy second hand books from former students. Then later I came to know that they cheat students by changing the cover mostly so that we might think that inside must be also changed and it is better to have the new one than the old one because lecturers use that book and examples and questions will be from that book in the exam . It is a total rip off. I hate that about Universities.

I believe that skills do help an individual stand out. However, people do go to college for a reason to further their education and learn more about their majors. They don't just pick up a piece of paper but pick up skills and knowledge about how the industry works. I agree that it is disappointing that not everyone can send their child to school. Does your government support the poor to send them off to college? If not, I suggest to gather your community together to help send at least one child to college. If you send at least one person, you might change their life forever.