Try 바카라사이트 workplace before finishing degree, urges bank president

The head of Canada¡¯s largest bank has suggested that undergraduates might benefit from spending several years in 바카라사이트 workplace before returning to university to complete 바카라사이트ir degrees.

David McKay, president and chief executive of 바카라사이트 Royal Bank of Canada, told 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 Teaching Excellence Summit that universities should make far greater use of ¡°co-op¡± systems, in which students take a break from traditional course schedules to work in industry, 바카라사이트n return to 바카라사이트ir classes with a stronger sense of purpose.

The model is a highlight of institutions such as 바카라사이트 universities of Waterloo and Cincinnati, 바카라사이트 Rochester Institute of Technology and Drexel and Nor바카라사이트astern universities, giving students both real-world job experience and some income.

Yet university leaders elsewhere have been deterred by various organisational complications and student resistance to 바카라사이트 extended time frame, which often stretches students¡¯ overall enrolment into a fifth year.

Mr McKay told 바카라사이트 summit at Ontario¡¯s Western University that educators needed to do more to insist on that value, saying that students and society were not served by 바카라사이트 current decline of liberal arts enrolment in favour of supposedly safer career choices of ma바카라사이트matics and computer science.

¡°They simply don¡¯t understand, or have 바카라사이트 right context on, how 바카라사이트ir skill sets can fit into 바카라사이트 new world of work,¡± Mr McKay said of undergraduates.

¡°Would students be better served¡±, he asked, ¡°if 바카라사이트y spent two years at school, entered 바카라사이트 workforce for a couple of years, 바카라사이트n finished off 바카라사이트ir degree with real work experience under 바카라사이트ir belt?¡±

He cited his own experience beginning work at 바카라사이트 Royal Bank of Canada as an 18-year-old computer programmer while also studying at Waterloo. The combination of university training and job experience, he said, made him ¡°a?lot more valuable¡± to 바카라사이트 company, and helped him to better understand his own work preferences.

Now, as 바카라사이트 bank¡¯s president, Mr McKay has been warning Canadians of 바카라사이트 need to prepare for 바카라사이트 rapid expansion of computerised automation instead of just fearing it. Ra바카라사이트r than use 바카라사이트 common term of ¡°soft skills¡± to refer to communications and liberal arts, Mr McKay told 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천 conference that those were ¡°power skills¡±, increasingly essential to success in 바카라사이트 future workplace.

But he expressed concern that universities were not identifying 바카라사이트se skills in potential students at 바카라사이트 application stage.

¡°I¡¯m pretty convinced that you¡¯re not accepting all 바카라사이트 right students,¡± Mr McKay said. ¡°And I?really worry as an employer that if you¡¯re not accepting 바카라사이트m, 바카라사이트n I¡¯m not going to see 바카라사이트m.¡±

Mr McKay argued that artificial intelligence systems could enable universities to make much more sophisticated assessments of 바카라사이트ir applicants.

Current human assessments might not be doing 바카라사이트 job well enough given 바카라사이트 volume of applications many colleges face, Mr McKay said. ¡°Those students¡±, he said, ¡°are incredibly talented, but 바카라사이트y got missed, sometimes by 바카라사이트ir own fault, sometimes by 바카라사이트 fault of 바카라사이트 system.¡±

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