IN the midst of organising a student-industry engagement forum for my faculty, I asked the students to pass me questions that they would like the panel to answer. We were inviting four panellists, two SME (small and medium enterprises) business owners and two from very established companies
Reading the questions submitted by these final-year students saddened me: “What challenges should I expect during this pandemic?”, “How can my field play an important role post-Covid-19?”, “What additional skills will make us more marketable?”, and so on. Anxiety runs high among these students who are about to finish university with scroll in hand but who are facing an uncertain, unprecedented future ahead of them.
