{"id":2072,"date":"2025-10-25T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2025-10-25T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:07:10","slug":"bookish-education-alone-wont-help-time-to-upgrade-skills-cm-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/bookish-education-alone-wont-help-time-to-upgrade-skills-cm-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookish education alone won\u2019t help; time to upgrade skills: CM Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Says \u2018Design your degree\u2019 can be a game changer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Oct 25: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said the time to focus solely on bookish education has gone, calling upon the students to upgrade\u00a0skills for a\u00a0better future.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Design your degree\u2019 can be a game changer, the Chief Minister said while speaking to the media persons after addressing the National Education Policy (NEP) Conclave at Amar Singh College.<\/p>\n<p>The CM, as per the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said they have started seeing benefits of the \u2018Design Your Degree\u2019 policy, which allows the students to design their own degrees and courses. \u201cWe are now seeing innovative degrees emerging, skill upgradation and other related things that will help students when they enter the job market,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Omar added, \u201cIt will be a game changer. There was a time when we focused solely on bookish education. Now, a major change has come along with bookish education; the children are being given practical experiences and are being asked to solve problems. Their skills are being upgraded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said this kind of education will be very beneficial for students in the future, when they have to enter the job market. Otherwise, we often say, &#8216;you have educated, but unemployed people\u2019. We are trying to eliminate that unemployment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the cabinet expansion, the Chief Minister said, \u201cI don&#8217;t know where you are hearing this from. Let the Budgam elections be held, then we will talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Replying to a query on students\u2019 interest in the fourth-year degree programme, Abdullah said the fourth year is for those who want to pursue research and get an honours degree. \u201cOtherwise, you are free to finish your degree in the third year,\u201d he said. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says \u2018Design your degree\u2019 can be a game changer Srinagar, Oct 25: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said the time to focus solely on bookish education has gone, calling upon the students to upgrade\u00a0skills for a\u00a0better future. \u2018Design your degree\u2019 can be a game changer, the Chief Minister said while speaking to the media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}