When most people think about the word designer, the first think to pop into their heads is either someone who deals in the fashion world or someone involved in home décor. However Mr. Gavin Mageni reminds us that we all designers in our own right.

The problem now lies in that how can one design? If they have no idea on where to even begin.

When the youth of South Africa finally complete their matric studies and head off into any form of higher education, a majority are left puzzled by the question of “what do I really want to do with my life?” and this question leads to many of them either changing their initial courses they enrolled into, due to that they cannot process what is being taught and this can be contributed to the lack of background knowledge on the subject and thus they either end hopping around various other courses so that they may find what really drives them or dropping out altogether.

Why is that though this question seems to be a common occurrence amongst the youth of today?

The root problem seems to lie in the secondary phase of education and the opinions of society at large, for when a person finally enters high school they are given a limited range of subjects to study from with a heavy emphasis placed on subjects such as physics and accounting.

These subjects are important however though are not for everybody as all children are unique and may have a different passion that drives them but might be forced by their parents to take them as they could want their children to either one day study to become a doctor or engineer, as society holds such positions in life in high regard mainly due to the wealth and statues they can give to an individual.

Unfortunately due to the high volume of youth choosing to study such mainstream fields, finding a space can sometimes prove to be difficult and those who end up graduating struggle to find to employment as positions in their respected professions are limited and a so a chasm is created whereby we have more people with degrees but only a small number of them are employed.    

So how can the problem be fixed?

In my opinion schools should add more subjects within their curriculum in which students can choose from however still remaining with the compulsory subjects such as Math’s and English. These extra subjects should serve as a foundation for the vast array of courses available out there study once done with matric. As children we grow up being encouraged to envision our careers in the future as anything imaginable so why should that type of thinking stop once we get older, education and society should continue to allow such thinking so that we may all become the designers we were meant to be. 

great work as the subject has in previous years become the talk of the country whereby student in various fields try to come up with solution as to how to address the issues because whether we like it or not is affecting many student expectantly does in the poor and middle class who cannot afford to go to better schools that gives quality education