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Latwell Nyangu
Youth Interactive Writer

The best yardstick for our progress is not other people, but ourselves and students must be taught how to think, not what to think.

A student should ask himself: “Am I better than I was yesterday?’”

As long as you go to bed at night a better person than the one who woke up that morning, you have succeeded.

There is life at college and there is life after college but most students tend to forget that.

A time will come to say goodbye to the learning institution as you enter into the real world which you might find not be so friendly.

Its hot out there!

Being at college at times makes you feel relaxed and the comfort zone seems to interest many students, but what happens afterwards, makes you think the ancestors have dumped you.

But such a cruel world needs a hybrid scholar who is fully equipped with skills.

The most important aspect for any scholar in this contemporary world is skill.

Skill is always more important than a degree, although this is debatable. But if one has skill with proper qualification with good self-confidence he or she will definitely go to a higher position.

In everyday life, the development of life skills helps students find new ways of thinking and problem solving. This further helps them recognise the impact of their actions and teaches them to take responsibility for what they do, rather than blame others.

Life skills are important as these bring positive effects in the life of students who are looking forward to working somewhere. In this 21st century, all these skills are essential to gain success not only for a healthy society, but also for successful individuals. Thus, it is important to involve skills training among learners from an early age.

These life skills must be made compulsory at school as students can struggle when it comes to real-world responsibilities.

It is necessary that schools provide students with basic mental, social and physical skills to prepare them for life after school.

These life skills should also be taught at high school. For most schools, the learning process seems confined only to classrooms.

The very best way to address this problem is to introduce life skills at school to help students build a stronger foundation fafter completing their studies.

In a constantly changing environment, having life skills are vital to address day-to-day challenges.

The dramatic changes in global worldwide economies over the recent years have impacted education, the working environment and home life in many ways.

To be able to cope with the increasing pace of present-day life, students need to learn life skills, including the capacity to manage pressure and disappointment.

The more we develop life skills individually, the more these benefit the world in which we live. It will also make interaction with people of other societies easier  and by respecting diversity to allow creativity and imagination to flourish a more developed society.

While we run different races, the purpose of education is to produce people with skills and expertise.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and  apply them in creative ways.

A qualification needs to be balanced with skill.

A person may be a good mechanic, but if he has no engineering qualification, then he cannot claim he is an engineer.

The ideal situation is a combination of both theoretical and practical knowledge.

The world has become cruel to graduates as employment opportunities have become scarce.

Though not all professions require teamwork, having this skill allows you to show employers that you can successfully work and collaborate in a group setting.

The importance of soft skills for students is enormous, both with regard to their studies and with regard to their future careers.

Students who recognize the importance of soft skills on time are able to master their studies more successfully, complete their obligations smoothly, make more acquaintances that may prove useful in the future, and better present themselves to professors who can also play an important role in their future careers.

Skills are in direct correlation with improved academic achievement, so students should develop them for their education and for their professional advancement.

Students will join the ranks of academic citizens after graduation, so it is very important that they develop desirable and appropriate forms of behaviour, traits and skills to match their social and educational status.

As such, they should be well-developed and balanced individuals with virtues and qualities expected from individuals with their education. The modern business world places certain expectations if we want to achieve professional success, be noticed and be competitive.

Today’s business environment is extremely dynamic. It also changes, transforms, and advances quickly. This doesn’t mean that you will be expected to change your personality for the sake of success,  or to be someone you are not.

The quality of interaction of people who have developed soft skills has been proven to be much better, which is of great importance for the employer and for the job you do.

Skills are equally important for students as they are for employed people, because studies prepare students for the labour market in several ways.

First, they develop a theoretical system of their chosen trade, then apply that theory in practice, thus preparing them for specific work situations, while simultaneously developing some fine skills through which the quality of one’s performance both during studies, and later in their professional caree,r is raised to a higher level.

Although it is important for  students to have a core set of knowledge, they are not helped to develop these skills by simply r regurgitate facts in an attempt to earn grades for a course.

There is need to have students apply what they have learnt by engaging them in projects.

There is a need to engage them in higher-order thinking skills for them to develop the skills that will be critical to their future success.

As educators, there is a need to stop depending on the lower level skills, such as memorising and recall, and help students develop higher-order thinking skills such as applying, analysing, evaluating, and creating.

Education is a gun and skill is a bullet. Together they can kill a person, but with only guns you can only produce fear in people!