Joblessness is no inevitable fatality

If work is an essential element of human dignity, than we need to make a bigger effort to ensure that people seeking a job do find suitable employment. According to Employment and Training Corporation research conducted among 7,000 youths aged 16-24, who modern sociologists term as NEETs (not in education, employment, or training), 50 per cent “believe they will never find a job”.

Many of these jobless young people blame “luck, fate and misfortune” for their sad plight. Most of them do not really care about their future. So one must ask: is joblessness an inevitable fatality that afflicts some young people?

To answer the question one needs to first understand why so many young people find themselves in such a situation. The education authorities try to shift the blame on parents who not always appreciate the value of education in their children’s early years of life. Some students often blame the educational system that, according to them, fails to motivate them to learn enough to make themselves employable. Educators complain that in every educational reform they are not engaged well enough to contribute to a solution to this perennial problemof underachievement.

Shifting blame...