There is a general mismatch between what is taught in school, and what is needed in the workplace.
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The banality of what is taught is quite astounding, and I think students leave with no real appreciation.
All actors involved in education: teachers and learners, curriculum developers, policy makers and community members invest their cultural perspectives into what is taught.
He says that what is taught in the classroom has been twisted to serve the examinations, and that assessment should follow rather than define the curriculum.
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It also calls for employers to be involved formally in technical and vocational education to ensure that what is taught is relevant and useful in the workplace.
One of the arguments I often see against this sort of free schooling is that it removes democratic control from what is taught and how it is taught.
What is being taught in management courses is usually not based on solid scientific evidence.
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What is being taught in management books and classrooms is usually not based on rigorous research.
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We all need to look at what is being taught in the schools in our community and make sure it reflects what students need to know today, not just what mattered 40 years ago.
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Mr. SYKES: Well, I think that what should be taught is not what the new list is, because that depends on your perspective.
My reaction of listening to, appreciating, and learning from that feedback is what taught a number of others that it was important to speak up.
If you study navigation at the Coast Guard or a boating school, you are taught what is called Dead Reckoning or sometimes Ded Reckoning.
"She stuck to her principles ... even if they were unpopular and this is what we were taught at school, " said Mrs Foster in a previous interview.
And what Sheehan has taught everybody is that it may not be easy.
What it has taught me is a good deal on how to manage a constant flow of information, how to select and apply filters and how to react to changing scenarios.
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It tells them that what they have been taught previously is wrong: You cannot just go and kill someone.
Will they remember what they were taught when school is over?
"What the web has taught us is that you can take nothing for granted - those who sit back and hope it goes away will lose, " he said.
He began his working career as a community organizer, and what he has taught us and what we are doing in this campaign is we are organizing in communities, in neighborhoods, at peoples doors.
We then as the mainstream society assume it is true what they say because, like our doctors and lawyers, we are taught to see them as the authority about what is going on in the world.
What this taught me about these apps is that there is a way to embed learning in a game.
The key to becoming a skillful communicator is rarely found in what has been taught in the world of academia.
What the years of disappointment have taught me is that our communities cannot depend on the goodwill of legislators for change.
Vaikus Jogisu, who is 73 years old, has been taught what to do at an elderly day centre in Tallinn.
Andrew Webb, the new president of the Association of the Directors of Children's Services, says it is time to focus on "what children are being taught rather than where".
Palmisano says time has taught us how important the balance is between what changes and what endures.
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This experience taught me what it feels like when a small business owner is looking for the right hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for his business.
The 63-year-old, who trained as what is now the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff has taught instrumental music and choral proficiency to children and adults for 40 years or so.
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