agreed
Hi Tony, I do agree, but I saw even more of why the quality is often not there in the candidates, and it comes back to university for a start, where the resourcing of the education sector is so bad, that you can often be lucky to make it through (depending on the university) without the help of your classmates, because the lessons given & materials supplied on each topic are neither coherent nor consistent nor anything else you might expect them to be...
I asked the course coordinator for my double degree in electronic engineering & computer science (which I was unable to finish for financial reasons) why the quality of education was so bad, to which he replied (off the record) "...we only get money for additional research, nothing for improving course content etc... so we do research (and lots of it) which we know is complete lies & ********, because it is the only thing we get additional funds for..." - and to top all this off, another student who was at our uni from another country (who came from a wealthy family), had failed to complete subjects, failed others completely (grades), and yet had still been graduated by the uni when deciding to go home to their family... making a joke out of the efforts of everyone else... and the story goes on like this for ages...
...so if I was to start on the problems of the graduate employment market, and the employment market in general, and how the failings there exacerbate the problems, it would be hard for anyone to deny we have a thoroughly broken system... it is no wonder at all that the skills are not there the way industry expects, they have funded a failed political agenda with respect to education.
