Education and employment are at two poles-A research using fuzzy cognitive linguistic multimaps

Abstract

The status of white collar jobs are gradually declining in India and the people are getting accustomed to just in jobs for their livelihood sustainability. The question of existence of such unfilled gaps between education and employment is still unanswered and now it has become a predicament. It is indeed a crucial period for the higher educational institutions of the nation to balance both enrollment and placement of the students amidst the prevailing competitions in the educational market. In the present days, educational sectors are becoming corporatized by institutionalizing the principles of corporate into the dictionary of academics with the argument of fostering quality in education. The management of the institutions also substantiates such kind of transition in this era of technology. Should the institutions become manufacturing companies of quality employees to make them fit into the job market, which demands excess of skills and competencies to go for a long run? The reasons for education and employment being at two poles have to be studied to develop a deeper comprehension on the grounds of such emerging crisis. This study will be fruitful to the educationalists, academic experts and educational reformers to frame certain remedial measures for rectification. To carry out this research work systematically the concept of Fuzzy Cognitive Linguistic Multimaps, which is an extension of fuzzy cognitive trimaps, is used to draw feasible concluding remarks and inferences devoid of ambiguity and uncertainty.