Corporate Training vs. Higher Education

Jim Kissane asks a provacative question on his Workforce Development blog,

We Can Educate Better In House...

"Here's another clear indication that companies lack confidence in U.S higher education. Some 1,600+ company-specific “universities” operate in the United States. Apparently, those companies believe that they can do a better job educating their employees than America’s colleges can."

I would say the focus of the training in companies vs a college education is different.   The way I look at it, a college education should teach you how to think and how to learn.  Corporate training, if done correctly, it is all about performance competence, as Guy Wallace on his Pursuing Performance blog would say, i.e.,  learning a job-specific competency or skill that is crucial to your job performance.

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Dave Boggs
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