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Sep 23, 2010
Writing Feedback / IELTS: what sort of knowledge should universities provide to graduates? [8]
Some people think that universities should provide graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in workplace. Others think that the true function of a university should be to give access to knowledge for its own sake, regardless of whether the course is useful to an employer.
What, in your opinion, should be the main function of a university?
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What sort of knowledge should universities provide to graduates? Nowadays, it is a hot topic for a wide group of people, from potential students, tutors to politicians.
Whereas a basic or high schools provide general education, universities should not.
During our studies at high school we gain education, which should help group of us to pass a school leaving exam and find a good job and another group to prepare it to a university. But people studying at a university usually have the same target. The target is to gain a diploma and mainly to learn more about their branch. From this it can be clearly seen that at high school there students with totally different targets, whereas at university they have the same target.
On the first hand, because of that universities should provide knowledge and skills which are practical and separated for the branch you are studying. In order to educate experts in their branch the education should be more specific.
On the another hand, students should memorise theoretical subjects to train their brains. However, the best possibility is to memorise a subject which is related the most to student's branch and which can be used in practise.
Universities should also give students access to world of knowledge but it depends on each student how he or she will take the advantage of it.
Not each student will find a job in his branch. So it is difficult to say if a concrete knowledge or skills will be useful to an employer. I think that missing knowledge can be replaced by a company training. Although, a foundation has to be there to built on it.
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Some people think that universities should provide graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in workplace. Others think that the true function of a university should be to give access to knowledge for its own sake, regardless of whether the course is useful to an employer.
What, in your opinion, should be the main function of a university?
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What sort of knowledge should universities provide to graduates? Nowadays, it is a hot topic for a wide group of people, from potential students, tutors to politicians.
Whereas a basic or high schools provide general education, universities should not.
During our studies at high school we gain education, which should help group of us to pass a school leaving exam and find a good job and another group to prepare it to a university. But people studying at a university usually have the same target. The target is to gain a diploma and mainly to learn more about their branch. From this it can be clearly seen that at high school there students with totally different targets, whereas at university they have the same target.
On the first hand, because of that universities should provide knowledge and skills which are practical and separated for the branch you are studying. In order to educate experts in their branch the education should be more specific.
On the another hand, students should memorise theoretical subjects to train their brains. However, the best possibility is to memorise a subject which is related the most to student's branch and which can be used in practise.
Universities should also give students access to world of knowledge but it depends on each student how he or she will take the advantage of it.
Not each student will find a job in his branch. So it is difficult to say if a concrete knowledge or skills will be useful to an employer. I think that missing knowledge can be replaced by a company training. Although, a foundation has to be there to built on it.
Can you please ccheck it?
Do you have an idea about a potential band?