It was a matter of personal importance and truly close to heart topic to talk at the YOUTEX yesterday – Youth Excursion Singapore 2017 Symposium.
Talking to these young leaders from various universities around Asia including Indonesia and Papua New Guinea taught me again one lesson. A qualitative education is incomplete without the social health.
All educators have responsibilities to contribute and solve the problems that exit in the millennial’s world, they are tech-savy but if it comes to “real” life situations, they fail, because they lack the soft skills needed to go that extra mile.
The competition for top universities starts from a very early age, work ethic, ambition, resilience, determination, persistence and much more soft skills should be embedded in the university curricula. The point of education is to become productive members of the society as well as equip the students with the skills and mentality to be able to successfully compete against the masses of other applicants and in the workforce.
Asian youth leaders should be more aware of the recent condition happening in the world especially if they want to build good successful business in the future. They are in needs to explore their knowledge in leadership, entrepreneurship, and socio-culture to better understand the trend and finally prepare themselves for the competition out there.
The more I’m pleased to see the Indonesian Global Network creating this wonderful Youth Excursion Symposium to accommodate ideas from youth and serve as a strategic platform for Asian youth leaders to learn, enhance, and understand about the ideas and concrete actions towards the most recent issues specifically on business, technology, and socio-culture through discussion with experts.
