FUTURE OF UNIVERSITIES & WHOLE EDUCATION CHAIN
can
we make sure we identify what the core of youth entrepreneur/employment crisis is?
I assume the number 1 problem is that nowhere in the 21st
c are most young people going to get work by passing exams and waiting for employers to offer them jobs- that
assumption has evidence for it in most countries that I have surveyed (30 plus in all hemispheres)
Most western universities are trapping youth in high fees and perpetuating the lie that
passing exam will get you work. In adam smith terms of pro-youth economics the system failure of universities and professional
edu is far worse than that. Adam was hugely against there only being one group who certify youth as qualified. Its an awful
monopoly we are stuck in especially with not one profession I know of yet modelling above zero sum futures - the only way
net generation sustainability can be reached
Many
times now I have seen yunus make his main message to thousands of youth that because of this trap the last few years they
spend in educational system they need to network and create their own future income generation entrepreneurially. In fact
some people define microentrepreneur as actioning that belief.
It
is because of this challenge that processes of http://jobscompetitions.ning.com are crucial to viralise positively, openly - the name I use for student entrepreneur competitions with a particular focus
on those designing solutions that can be openly replicated across commmunities and owned in trust or by those in most need
of the service solution - tokyo will be hosting a 12000 youth festival competition of this sort probably 30 jan 2013 with prizes in the millions of dollars
if students come up with franchises ready to be replicated; sadly although brussels hosted 2 conferences at end of last year admitting that the only way europe will see full youth employment again is with
social impact bonds financing replication of social solutions- there is no student jobs competitions process even started
in europe inspite of over 50% of youth out of work in greece, in spain and this virus spreading at moores law speed;
usa is a slightly different story with
experiments going on in uni year 2012-2013 probably being make or break in terms of a youth led recovery (unless you think
a mit romney or obam2.0 is suddenly hoing to downsize congress which i dont)
while the news is mainly bleak in the west, the best news is pretty well everyone who partners
mandela in s.africa (including googe kiva branson ...) is making changing universities to be free to thoe who job create their
number 1 contribution to the future of youth- so what we need is eg to connect 10 countries which may all be s or east which
get youth colaboration entrepreneurship around 500 youth clusters - then we can be sure that network of 5000 youth will help
netgen sustain growth of community economies worldwide fatser than any 5000 bankers can collapse them www.yunus10000.com digital banking - digital everything community-up is the battle ground on which every young 21st C nation's spring is now
being fought on- forget the irrelevant politicians and the non-economist on the nightly news
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sometimes I use the shorthand in the mission to create 3 billion jobs of meaning 3 billion
new ways to be fully income generating
when
it comes to educational staff I believe we need to ask what would the world be like if the vast majority of educators were
most passionate about seeing youth get jobs ie dvelop lifetimes of income generation
there is a different issue of what kinds of activities should income generation be matched
to - for example if we are ever to get rid of western governments spending 20% of their citizens gdps on arms and armedforces
we could be spending most of that on young people animating crosscultural activities and regenerating commnities- it is actually
monica (yunus daughter) whose mission is to develop the number 1 collaboration network of that sort and her starting point
www.singforhope.org is to convert superstars into making sure that whatever they star also creates maximum youth jobs in communities by those
who dont quite become stars
our journal of social business edited by
adam smith scholars in glasgow covers a lot of topics of this sort -if you have an idea for contribution please chat to zasheem
@btinternet.com who chairs our editorial board of adam smith schilars out of Glasgow University
chris macrae wasshington dc 301
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