Impact of
education on individual
Employability is defined by International labour organization, given in Xhafferi and Iqbal (2008) as “The key outcome of education and training of high quality, encompassing the skills, knowledge and competencies that enhance a worker's ability to secure and retain a job, progress at work and cope with change, secure another job if she/he so wishes or has been laid off and enter more easily into the labour market at different periods of the life cycle” (P. 21).
Employability is defined by International labour organization, given in Xhafferi and Iqbal (2008) as “The key outcome of education and training of high quality, encompassing the skills, knowledge and competencies that enhance a worker's ability to secure and retain a job, progress at work and cope with change, secure another job if she/he so wishes or has been laid off and enter more easily into the labour market at different periods of the life cycle” (P. 21).
Educated
individuals become productive employees accepting the challenges of changing
world. They enhance their chances of finding jobs on their own through education
incorporated necessary knowledge and required skills (Checchi 2006; Xhafferi
& Iqbal 2008).
Samman
(2001) shares that educated person has got empowered to acquire more autonomy
in decision making and greater control over the material resources particularly
females. Parental demands are influenced by mother’s educational level. For
example mostly families prefer son in their home during birth of the child.
This preference is removed only after a relatively high level of education has
been achieved.
Education
makes the individuals useful citizens, self reliant and independent learners
through providing opportunities to experience citizenship, self reliance and
independency (Qureshi, 2005).
Impact of
education on community
There is a
substantial impact of education on community. According to Qureshi (2005)
following are some of impacts of education on community.
a.
Impact of education on physical development: Education
has ensured community to develop its individuals physically and mentally in
terms of food and hygiene. Communities are providing the facilities for
physical development of the people through gymnasia and other ways of
exercises.
b.
Mental development: Within the community
libraries, reading rooms, art competitions, cultural functions and so on are
managed for its students. This helps the mental development of children in a
community.
c.
Impact on culture: Cultural transformation involving
traditions, norms, ideals, costumes, modes of behaviours to new generations is
possible only through the process of education.
d.
Impact on
politics: Education impacts on community such a way that its political
leaders tend to provide opportunities for its individuals to understand the
ideology of community and relationships within the community.
e.
Impact on economy of community: Different
kind of industry, jobs, occupations are developed in a community through
education. The individual with their abilities and skills find jobs within the
community. Curiosity among individuals to have professional abilities creates
observing qualified neighbours, family members, or any other learned person in
the community. For example people from north come to do their B. Ed and M. Ed
from IED and NDIE looking at the earlier graduates.
Moral and
character development: Every community has its own norms, laws and code of
conduct. Education has influenced those norms, rules and regulations and code
of conduct according to need and significance for that community. New values
are incorporated in the community because of education. For example integrity
of hard work to make the lives of human beings better is a value given by
education. As it is cleanliness is closed to Godliness is an important value
given by education to community.
Impact of
education on society
According to
Tilak (1994), education has raised literacy rate of societies. The more
education spread the higher the literacy rate in any society. For example
literacy rate of any society increases with the passage of time not decreases except
any special case, whether its rate of increasing is smaller or greater. This is
because of increasing education in society.
Education
has profound effects on reducing poverty particularly in rural areas.
Illiterate societies are suffering from poverty because of less participation
in job markets having a shortage of necessary knowledge, skills and
competencies. Education has enabled every society to start with new technology
and productive markets to alleviate poverty (Tilak, 1994). For example information technology in
Pakistan started opened new opportunities of job for the individuals who have
knowledge, skills and competencies in information technologies. New departments
were opened, services were given to the people in those departments and buildings
were constructed. This helped to a quite
extent to reduce poverty in Pakistan. Income distribution and income inequality
in a society have also been addressed by education.
Education
creates future leaders for the society. During educational process calibre and
interests of the individuals are determined and developed the features of
leaders to create future leaders for the society (Qureshi, 2005).
The
individuals in a society need to be in social control for balance personality
development. Education provides experiences to the people to learn to accept
social control from the society. This is why in some societies education is
used to create democratic environment. Further more education brings necessary
social changes in society because it criticises the costumes, traditions, ways
of life and practices of the society. Using this right to criticism, educated
people assess weaknesses of the society and prepare future plans for the
reformation and improvement of the society (Qureshi, 2005).
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