Should Colleges Be Responsible for Job Training?
Traditionally, higher education has prepared students for either graduate work or employment. Increasingly, though, colleges are also expected to train their students for their first jobs -- a role that in the past had been left to employers. In the latest issue of IT Professional, Sorel Reisman, a professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at California State University, questions that trend. "Of course, employers benefit from sloughing off new-hire training costs on the colleges. As economically logical as this might sound, it is virtually impossible [for colleges]...to deliver." Read on at http://www.computer.org/itpro/it2004/f1006.pdf
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