MPs concluded that most franchised courses do teach useful skills, to workers who might not otherwise be retrained.
Young people regularly work for low and even no pay in order to build their resume, learn useful skills, and make networking connections.
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Such people did bring useful skills to the running of public bodies and it was an added bonus that many of them supported the Tories' reforms of public services.
The added value of these non-formal learning activities is that they result in a variety of skills, ranging from economically beneficial and socially useful skills, to skills for self-development.
Bryan Caplan, an economist at George Mason University and author of the forthcoming book "The Case Against Education, " argues that colleges are more about certifying their students than actually teaching them useful skills.
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"Inspectors were also concerned at the lack of activity places to keep prisoners purposefully engaged which led to many men spending most of their days locked up without the opportunity to gain useful skills, " said Dr Maguire.
And the fact that top-tier racing game players have proved their mettle in actual race cars when given proper training implies that there are many useful skills that transfer from the virtual world to the real one.
The "dominant role of the public sector as an employer" particularly in Egypt, but throughout the region has inflated the graduates' wage expectations, put a premium on diplomas over useful skills and diverted talented workers from what might have been more dynamic private-sector enterprises, the IMF says.
Even the process of copying must have imparted to the private firms some useful engineering skills that the SOEs have yet really to develop.
As a long-term drug dealer with a criminal record and numerous tatoos, White has few useful job skills and faces a great deal of skepticism from employers.
However, they can learn big lessons from these mistakes that can carry into adulthood like lessons about spending versus saving, shopping wisely, negotiating for items and other useful financial skills that can serve them for the rest of their lives.
The differences were linked to the mental alertness required to switch between languages, which could develop skills useful in other types of thinking.
But teaching Iran the (militarily useful) enrichment skills it still lacks hardly seems the way to build confidence that its nuclear work is peaceful.
And Mr Kim, who has secretly helped Syria in the past and is rumoured to be assisting Myanmar now, has skills useful to Iran in plutonium-making and warhead-tinkering.
His footballing skills were useful again just after the break as he controlled a kick-through to score.
While arguing that the system of vocational qualifications was "complex and opaque", Professor Wolf said that in practice "good levels of English and mathematics continue to be the most generally useful and valuable vocational skills on offer".
Along the way, they used to teach them, and demand of them, that they learn critical personal skills, and useful, responsible habits like earning your own way in life.
"We live in an ever smaller global community and we probably are at a point where we believe having some language skills is a useful thing - it's what I would call a vocational skill really, " he says.
And even if those educated in the sciences pursue employment in other areas, learning the scientific method in an accessible manner helps to cultivate critical thinking skills that are useful as a consumer and citizen.
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Two skills will be particularly useful: spotting the gems in the rubble, and timing.
If any more regimes are to be changed, low-tech skills might come in useful again.
Not everyone is lucky enough to have a job that involves numbers so it's always useful to have some show business skills to fall back on.
And specialists are involved in taking this raw data and turning it into useful information via photogrammetry and other specialized skills.
Although she trained as a sculptor at Tianjin University, those skills weren't very useful for bringing in the rent and paying household bills.
Figuring out how to do the laundry, cook a basic meal or even wait for a handyman "are not crippling responsibilities" but rather "minor life skills" that can prove useful if the housekeeper cancels.
Make a plan to develop skills and experiences that are broadly useful to potential other jobs.
It is useful to continue to deepen and broaden your individual skills and abilities.
Consulting can be especially useful if you are looking for a way to keep your skills sharp and valuable.
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We are already realizing that the subjects we studied in college might not be very useful in the business world and are adapting our ideas and skills to the changing economy.
Besides imparting basic skills to rural journalists, the workshops also provided a useful forum for the discussion of press freedom and other professional issues and their possible solutions.
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