Employers and Educators Must Collaborate To Prepare Students for Jobs that Don't Yet Exist

NEW YORK, March 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Employers' complaints that new college graduates aren't ready for the workplace have become common headlines.  In a new interview, global thought leader Charles Fadel tells C.M. Rubin (founder of CMRubinWorld) that solving the problem means changing what competencies we assess in students that "would prepare them for employment."

Students are currently in education systems that need to prepare them for jobs which in many cases don't exist and for technologies that haven't been invented.  The job landscape is changing dramatically with new jobs being created as others are being automated.  There is a significant gap between success in school and employability skills because, notes Fadel, "current assessment systems do not reflect the demands of the labor market."  Fadel believes business leaders must be more "innovative" and work with those colleges that are change leaders.  "A system like Northeastern University's Department of Cooperative Education and Career Development, in which students alternate semesters of study and full-time work in their chosen field, is a great example of the type of partnership that can exist and complement existing education," says Fadel, who also notes that "apprenticeships have been the norm and provide a trained pipeline to industries" in Germanic countries.

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Charles Fadel is a global education thought leader, futurist and inventor, and founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign.  He has worked with education systems and institutions in more than thirty countries. He was formerly Global Education Lead at Cisco Systems, and holds a BSEE, an MBA, and five patents.  He is the author of Four-Dimensional Education: The Competencies Learners Need to Succeed.

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