Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Of course, once again businesses bitch and moan that universities aren't 
> teaching job-specific skills, instead of sucking it up and doing what every 
> company did before WW2 and just teach people the skills they need.

  On that note, many do indeed have the view that Universities (besides all
the research and such) are not places where you learn a specific job (that's
what vocational schools are for), but instead they teach the basics which
help people learn any job (in the field they are studying) more easily. There
are basics that apply to most or all of the jobs in the field, and teaching
these basics makes the students more prepared to learn any of them (besides,
at least in theory, other more higher-level knowledge which helps them
do research and improve the field or industry, if so needed, which is why
there's more of an emphasis on the theoretical stuff).

  Many people complain that universities/colleges don't prepare people for
the real world, for real jobs, but I'd say these people are missing the
point. In fact, the universities *are* preparing them, but at a more "meta"
level that, in the long run, is actually more helpful both to the student
himself and the industry as a whole.

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                                                          - Warp

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