Computer training is important to the quality of education in developing countries

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by Nausherwan Korai

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In the present state of the world, we are experiencing the effects recession, the lack of jobs and a greater amount of potential candidates applying in various sectors of industry, and because of this, the quality of education we receive becomes more and more important in relation to the quality of life we have a chance to live in the future. Thus the factors affecting our education also multiply in importance. I agree to a certain point that computer training is important to the quality of education in developing countries, and as developing countries usually have a large amount of population, it seems to me its value will only increase in the near future, I myself being an inhabitant of one. If computer training and its credit is increased in such countries the students gain a new set of skills which, if used properly, can give them a larger advantage than the rest of the populace. What we have to remember is that in developing countries the primary source of its income is related to things that are bound by agriculture, mining and fishing. In other words the country makes its income through raw commodities. So it follows that unless the said country has a huge amount of these industries it will not make much of a profit, and thus won't actually be developing. This is where the IT sector and computer training comes in. Once a generation of computer trained people emerge in a country which is developing, they will naturally be competitive, and thus will be trying hard to out-do each other, and this will more-often-than-not lead to new innovations and technology. Lets take the example of India. True, its income used to lie in the income and export of primary commodities, but since the computer generation has been introduced in this overpopulated country, changes have taken place. Most outsourced jobs go to this particular developing country, whose people have more of an affinity to computer training as their futures might quite literally depend on the quality of computer training they received. And the biggest advantage of this is quite materialistically, the money, as people whose forefathers never even lived to see more than a hundred dollars, will now be earning more than ten times that!

Now aside from these advantages to the country itself if computer training is implemented, and revenues are generated from the remittance of these workers, we see advantages to other countries as well. Since this is so important to the people who are trained they work doubly hard as their counterparts in better developed countries. Thus better products are entered into the market and the world along with the country can develop, especially since we are becoming more and more dependant on computer related products. But I wont pretend that there are any drawbacks at all. For one the countries where the jobs are outsourced from, people are being laid off as companies down-size. So the solution to this problem, and to the question is to control the amount of training and the amount of jobs given over, but keeping a high level of quality to the education that is given. Lastly developing countries need more computer training in their education than anyone else, even more so as this is the one sector of employment that wasn't affected by the recession that badly, as can be seen in Silicon Valley, and thus if there was a greater dependence on the training of computers in such countries beginning from a primary level, the repercussions might not have been felt as badly as are being felt now. So we must understand that though such education would be to our advantage, we must not flood the market with such candidates. Though I would hate to end on a cliche, the basic rule here would be to follow the saying that too much of a good thing, is not a good thing at all.

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