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Many of today’s global challenges require the joint involvement of researchers from
different disciplinary backgrounds (social sciences, environmental sciences,
climatology, medicine, etc.). Such interdisciplinary research teams face many
challenges resulting from differences in training and scientific culture. Interdisciplinary
education programs are required to train truly interdisciplinary scientists with respect to
the critical factor skills and competences. As the world changes, the focus is much more
put on making money rather than quality of service and student learning outcomes.
Increasing enrollment and getting more money is not bad, but the challenge of
unemployment facing many young people graduating from colleges is worsening. Out of
5 graduates 3 are jobless or underemployed. We cannot solve this problem by using the
same curriculum, instructions or culture used 20 years ago.

It is time to find better ways to reform education and equip young people with
employable skills and abilities. The key is to sustainable development is to ensure that
from the time the child begins learning (formal or informal) training to the time one
graduates or drops out of school. They have acquired a certain level of hard and soft
skills for survival. So, instead of designing school curriculum, programs, or courses
focusing on reading, writing, mathematics or accounting, training at all levels of
education must engage and relate to changes in the world or life experiences to make it
meaningful for students. Traditionally, schools used to be seen as non-profit
organizations because of their nature and interest in educating, empowering and
equipping people with knowledge and skills.
In our very own country we need to sustain political commitment on the part of
successive Government to honor all legally binding agreement signed between the
International Development Partners and the host Government so as to ensure
continuity.,

Secondly, the aspect of quality assurance need to be strengthened to ensure a package


delivery that meets up with internationally accepted best practices/standard, to ensure
money for value audit. Thirdly, we must think outside the box to look for alternative ways
of funding to augment Government budgetary provisions.All stakeholders involved must
develop a generic model that will throw up new set of indicators to evaluate both the
qualitative and the quantitative outcome and output of the Action plan. Educational
research should aim at improving educational practice by analyzing the world of
Education to understand it and make it better.

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