The school is also offering a photography workshop to train students in documenting their work.
The school said the fund would help it continue to train students "from all walks of life".
In 2007 the school established the Stevens Institute for Innovation to train students and faculty in how to turn ideas into operating businesses.
The university has tapped into the expertise of South Africa's business community, with financial services companies sending their staff to help train students.
It involves big and small companies, leading universities, and the state of Virginia and will perform research and development, train students and workers for advanced manufacturing careers, and deliver new "production-ready" solutions to existing factories.
Research has shown that face-to-face interaction with seasoned entrepreneurs is key to the effective training of budding ones, and the US has a wealth of highly successful entrepreneurs, many of them originally from developing countries, who can help universities train students from developing countries.
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But it's much harder to train students to go out and start the next Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ), Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), or eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ).
The government also wants to train more students with "cutting-edge" skills at tackling online crime.
First of all, information gatekeepers such as teachers and media practitioners should become highly media and information literate in order to train their students.
Technology like this can allow us to leverage that medical library to help train our students and also find new ways to address the public health challenges we face today.
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He is hopeful that the technology could eventually be used in hospitals to guide patients through exactly what is going to happen during their operation, and perhaps even to help train medical students.
"It could be a huge tool for universities to transform the way they recruit and train graduate students, " Gene Tempel, founding dean of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, said of Munger's gift.
And professors now train incoming MBA students to expect to try as many as six careers after graduating, not one.
Students train in industrial electricity, welding, sewing and computers.
To compensate for this, he described a plan for 10, 000 Chinese students to train at U.S. universities to learn the basics of innovative thinking (and open Chinese universities to a like number of Americans).
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When I was in high school, they built an indoor driving range, and the intention at that time was to train middle or high school students to be golfers.
It might be easier to train them to communicate properly with students than to get professional management academics to teach students to be good managers.
She cites examples from her school such as Manoj Sahoo, recruited by Cargill to run its Indian operations out of Singapore, and two other Tuck students joining Samsung to train in Seoul and then return to their native countries, Israel and India.
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So there's numerous ways in which the private sector could really reward excellence, help teachers and students continue to grow and develop, expand the horizons of young students, leverage scarce resources, train administrators and leaders on how to be most effective.
Students are graded on certainty and schools unwittingly train people to need it.
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We should also expect employers to work with schools, to be involved in co-op programs and support students pursuing the needed courses, and to train and develop current employees for skills that are emerging.
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The South Texas Community College has grown from 600 to 6, 000 students in three years, and the city offers to train employees for companies coming in.
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