Andre1332 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I am trying to make a presentation around the topic, and I am having some trouble to find useful information (graphics or statistics) that validate my point. I need to answer the following questions: Do students leave college with valuable skills? Can they start working right away or they need further in job training? How effective is tradition education (classroom)? If anyone know any good article or study, or a place I am likely to find, please let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Lawrence Moore Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto: If anything, it will definitely give you good ideas where to look. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luxfelix Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Five hours... Challenge accepted! Edit: That was five hours well spent! Thank you for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasmlab Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Five hours... Challenge accepted! Edit: That was five hours well spent! Thank you for sharing. Gatto might be my favorite liberty author, as much as he is one. Some of his books really blew my hair back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Lawrence Moore Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Five hours... Challenge accepted! Edit: That was five hours well spent! Thank you for sharing. Now start your quest of looking up the 40 zillion references from that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aviet Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I think you will have a hard time showing that an alternative 'education' or real-life skills are betters, because so much of the work environment is geared towards people who have degrees as a starting point.If you do, I think it would be worth at looking at 'corporate education.' I'm not sure how prevalent this is, but I did a course called CISCO Certified Networking Academy, which could easily be completed within one year, and one completed you can go straight into a £30,000 / year job. There is a further course ran by CISCO which can get you a £60,000 / year job, which is over $90,000 / year.It seems to me that degrees give people a smattering of information that in many cases are not even worth minimum wage and only good enough to get entry level jobs, which it would have been better to give interested people 3 years of on-job training with take-home study as opposed to breaking the bank for the said smattering.Anyway, some stats for the UK:http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/aug/24/earnings-by-qualification-degree-levelhttp://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/careers/what-do-graduates-do/what-do-graduates-earn/CISCO Cambodia students shattering the average national wage:http://csr.cisco.com/casestudy/networking-academy-cambodiahttps://targetjobs.co.uk/career-sectors/it-and-technology/286195-what-graduate-salary-can-i-expect-in-an-it-job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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