It has become apparent that there are many ways in which you can become educated. Skills provided by education can also be gained through real life experiences which help you to adapt to situations and effectively achieve your goals. Having a school education is focused on your achievements through certificates, diplomas, passing tests and achieving good grades.
School education is a confined learning environment with set discipline in the forms of the curriculum and the institutions internal structures of how they teach. Social media, marketing and technology practices all advance and grow within society, education is similar to these practices in that it changes constantly. As society evolves the education system and the variety of ways you can become educated also attempts to evolve with it. Through past experiences when applying for jobs, experience in a professional working environment is held and valued higher than a school text book education.
From a secondary school education, goals are set to push individuals and ultimately achieve a better job in the long run. Typical school education provides the principles of behaviour and ethics, and fails to provide an environment involving social skills, initiative and independent learning. When entering a work environment it is apparent that the lessons and subjects I learnt at school are almost irrelevant and certainly out-dated and the learning and school-like experience starts from a trial and error process at work.
More so, this still applies even when moving up the education system to degree level, for example when studying a degree in Marketing, covering units such as the fundamentals of marketing you would expect more transferable skills into the work place. Initially it would be apparent that the unit would be useful covering models and theories whilst giving an insight of how to use these skills within an actual marketing environment. Although, as I experience working within White Hat Media, it has become apparent to me that the traditional models and theories are not as relevant as my degree lead me to believe. Therefore, being taught how to use marketing tools through a real and hands on approach is a more effective form of learning. From experience, when put in to a real environment everything I have learnt through education becomes forgotten and more lessons and skills are learnt from a week in a business’ environment than in a year of university.
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Students will benefit from being exposed to the real world with learning primary business skills. If more work experience based courses were to become available then graduates would be given more opportunities when they enter the “real” world.
