Like many engineering graduates in India, 25-year-old Rahul Varma became an engineer not by choice but out of chance. He realised much later in life that his passion lay in management and sales, and not coding. After heading AIESEC’s operations in India, he went on to become the Chief Operating Officer for an edtech startup in Bengaluru.
There, Rahul realised that India’s schooling and education system was outdated, as there hardly is any industry relevance to what was being taught in schools and colleges. Most of the youth lack industry relevance and real-time skills to keep up with the pace of change in technology and other industries.
“That brings the question – is the current system and schooling standards really serving the purpose of creating employable and enterprising workforce?” examines Rahul, in a conversation with YourStory.
He also found a NITI Aayog report stating that there are going to be 600 million youth (45 percent of the total population) in India by 2025, and about less than 45 percent of them will be employable.
All this led him to start Unschool in Hyderabad in February 2019.
