Are our teachers of the future currently working in industry?
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Loading... - Roef Olinga
- 22 Aug 2022
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It is clear that education and industry form its own little ecosystem as part of the greater economic whole.
Students join institutions to gain hard skills and knowledge that will take them through to the next phase of their lives - a paid career. While most candidates go on to work in industry, some of these academic professionals stay on at the institution to recycle their book knowledge and keep the wheels of education institutions turning.
However, time and time again we hear the words "skills gap" and "not work-ready" thrown at new graduates, as though they've wasted the last three or more years learning a library of information that has not, in fact, prepared them for the complexities of the "real working world". Read More...
