Showing posts with label collaborative competency learning program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collaborative competency learning program. Show all posts

Tuesday 18 November 2014

Becoming Academically Competent For Future Employment


In recent times business schools are focussing on training the workers based on the research that they usually do when they interact with other schools. If people have already been hired by companies, then they are dealt with a little differently. Institutions are making sure that competency based programs are available to students so that they can receive degrees and certifications.

One of the greatest challenges that students are facing today are the rising and hefty prices of tuition fees when they enrol themselves in an academic course. The reason why students try to gain access to these courses is so that they can get excellent employment opportunities and salaries that are reasonably good. Keeping this thought in mind, various organizations are collaborating with educational institutions and are spreading the awareness of these needs to business experts across the globe. Emphasis is being laid on training students to have business skills when they finally get employed.

Alarming claims have been made by many students in recent times. Several companies are not content with the skills that are being taught at the graduation level. In their opinion they are laying more emphasis on students’ higher education or in other words, a post -graduation in any field of interest.

When students learn a course that aims at looking into their competency in that job, it is a starter that initiates the progress of a student. It is a flexible mode of learning in which students learn at their own pace. The degree will help them in future.

“This is workforce development at the higher education level,” was Nick Lacy’s statement. The director of competency-based learning and national relations at Brandman University took a deep look at the requirements of various companies and pointed out what steps educational institutions needed to make.

The industries that support a collaborative competency learning program are finance, technology, food service, health care and many others. Being good theoretically in a classroom is insufficient in such areas of work. One’s practical knowledge and first- hand experience is also taken into account.

Students are finding these courses to be informative, practically useful and there are many students who are approaching universities every year to get such a degree. The students who are unable to go to a college or university are also looking for other options that are widely available in the technologically advanced world. They are doing their best to check for the latest details online and it is a fact that there are similar courses available online.


It is a boon for those students who are already employed and are raising their own family which leaves little time to spare for their own academic pursuit.The opportunities for growth in one’s career are increasing. It is a student’s task to take the best chance and move forward in life.