university duties
Some people think that universities should provide graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in the 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?
Just in Europe, 20 million of graduates enter the world of work every year. While some people hold the notion that providing students with the abilities needed in the workplace is a university duty, others are of the opinion that high level institutions should not structure their courses in relation to future careers the students will perform. It is my belief that higher education ought to prepare graduates to develop the necessary skills to match their future employers requirement.
Let us break down this issue into chunks and analyze it in details. According to a study published by Harvard, 63% of graduates struggle at their first job. The majority of them claim they have not been prepared correctly to deal with the new environment. For instance, when you leave university and enter the real world, you can be asked to work in a team and share your results with the other members. As a consequence, many first employers experience some difficulties and feel uncomfortable at work.
Likewise, higher education is usually orientated towards providing students with strong theoretical backgrounds over practical ability. For instance, a friend of mine had several problems when he started his Ph.D. since no one had taught him at university how to make a research in a laboratory.
To conclude, high level instructions usually organize their courses focusing specifically on theoretical knowledge which is necessary to deeply understand a problem. By the same token, the real word require abilities hard to learn on books such as teamwork and practical laboratory skills. While it is important for an academic student being able to develop his competencies on his own, to my mind, universities ought to help them on this path in order to shape well-rounded workers able to accomplish a wide range of jobs.
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university duties
Some people think that universities should provide graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in the 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?
Just in Europe, 20 million of graduates enter the world of work every year. While some people hold the notion that providing students with the abilities needed in the workplace is a university duty, others are of the opinion that high level institutions should not structure their courses in relation to future careers the students will perform. It is my belief that higher education ought to prepare graduates to develop the necessary skills to match their future employers requirement.
Let us break down this issue into chunks and analyze it in details. According to a study published by Harvard, 63% of graduates struggle at their first job. The majority of them claim they have not been correctly prepared to deal with the new environment. For instance, when you leave university and enter the real world, you can be asked to work in a team and share your results with the other members. As a consequence, many first employees experience some difficulties and feel uncomfortable at work.
Likewise, higher education is usually oriented towards providing students with strong theoretical backgrounds over practical ability. For instance, a friend of mine had several problems when he started his Ph.D. since no one had taught him at university how to perform research in a laboratory.
To conclude, high level institutions usually organize their courses to focus specifically on theoretical knowledge which is necessary to deeply understand a problem. By the same token, the real word requires abilities which are hard to learn from books such as teamwork and practical laboratory skills. While it is important for an academic student being able to develop his competencies on his own, to my mind, universities ought to help them on this path in order to shape well-rounded workers able to accomplish a wide range of jobs.
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Hi, first, I want to say that your text was really good. Besides a few minor technical corrections, the level of language was higher than one would expect from most native speakers. I've created a minimally edited version below. This is my first edit on italki, so I don't know if there were tools available to highlight the changes. I wanted to point out also, that while "orientated" is a perfectly valid word, it is not widely used, especially in the U.S. "Oriented" is the preferred form.
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