Education and training

These days, the role of a univercity or education is discussed in the world whether their purpose shold be preparing guys for work or just scholar.

Magareta : the trouble with graduates, people who’ve just left university, is that their paper qualifications are good, but they have no work experience. They just don’t know how business works.

Nill : I disagree. Education should teach people ho to think, not prepare them for a particular job. One of last year’s recruits had graduated from Oxford in philosophy and she’s doing very well!

Magareta : Philosophy’s an interesting subject, but for our company, it’s more useful if you train as a scientist and qualify as a biologist or chemist - training for a specific job is better.

Nill : Yes, but we don’t just need scientists. We also need good managers, which we can achieve through in-house training course within the company. You know we have put a lot of money into management development and management training because they are very important. You need to have some management experience for that. It’s not the sort of thing you can learn when you’re 20!

Words

graduate /ˈɡrædʒuət/ ★★★ S2 W2 n.

[countable] someone who has completed a university degree, especially a first degree

He is a graduate of Havard in computer engineering.

graduate /ˈɡrædʒueɪt/ ★★★ S2 W2 v.

to obtain a degree, especially a first degree, from a college or university

graduate from + a university, high school.

Kate graduated from medical school last year.

graduate in + a major

He graduated in computer science.

paper qualifications n.

an expression meaning documents showing that you have passed particular examinations, used specially when you think that experience and knowledge are more important

Paper qualifications are no guide to ability.

work experience n.

the experience you have had of working in a particular type of job

She’s well qualified but has no relevant work experience.

BrE a period of thime that a young person spends working in a particular palce, as a form of traing

education /ˌedjʊˈkeɪʃən $ ˌedʒə-/ ★★★ S1 W1 n.

[singular, uncountable] the process of teaching and learning, usually at school, college, university

She also hopes her children will get a good education.

Collocations

a good education

all parents want a good education for their children.

a poor education(=not very good)

She had a poor education, and left school without qualifications.

an all-round education(=including a balance of lots of different subjects)

The school offers a good all-round education.

full-time education(=spending every weekday in a school or college)

Children must stay in full-time education untill the age of 16.

BrE state education AmE public education(=provided by the government of a country)

The state of California guarantees free public education to all children.

train /treɪn/ ★★★ S1 W1 v, vt.

to teach someone the skills of a particullar job or activity, or to be taught hese skills

train as

Nada trained as a singer.

train for

to prepare for a sports event or tell someone how to prepare for it. especially by exercising

BVrenda spends two hours a day training for the marathon.

in house(=in-house)

if you are work in house, you work at the offices of a company or organization, not at home

in-house training

training at the offices of a company or organizationg, not at home.

We need good managers as well as developers, which we can achieve through in-house training courses.

qualify /ˈkwɒlɪfaɪ $ ˈkwɑː-/ ★★☆ S3 W3 v. vt.

to have the right to have or do something, or to give someone this right.

Free school lunches are given to children who qualify

management development n.

[uncountable] activities to improe the skills of managers in a company, such as training and mentoring etc

IBM’s director of education and management development

management training n.

[uncountable] actions, courses etc to improve the skills of manangers in a company

British companies have doubled their level of management training and development in the last 10 years.

sort of thing

BrE used when you are mentioning or describing something in a way that is not definite or exact

Skilled and unskilled

skilled adj. OPP unskilled

someone who is skilled has the training and experience that is needed to do something well

The company is fortunate to have such highly skilled workers.

skilled at/in

She’s very skilled at/in dealing with the public.

ways of describing

• highly skilled (e.g. car designer, brain surgeon)
• skilled (e.g. car production manager, office manager)
• semi-skilled (e.g. taxi driver, car worker on a pruduction line)
• unskilled (e.g. car cleaner, office cleaner)

The right person

These words are often used in job advertisements. Companies look for people who are:

• self-starter, proactive, self-motivated, self-driven : good at working on their own.
• methodical, systematic and organized : can work in a planned, orderly way.
• computer-literate : good with computers.
• numerate : good with numbers.
• motivated : very keen to do well in their job.
• talanted : naturally very good at what they do.
• team players : people who work well with other people
• individual contributer : a person who work well individually.

on their own/by themselves

without help from anyone else

Survivors have to complete missions on their own/by themselves.

keen /kiːn/ ★★☆ S3 W3 adj. SYN eager

BrE wanting to do something or wanting something to happen very much

He told me that he was keen to help.

be keen on somebody

BrE to be sexually attracted to someone

It is the end of this time : )