Can Academia Prepare Students for the Real World?
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Note: This is skewed toward computer science courses. I'm interested to see if it is the same in other subjects.
I have long had a belief that universities are, by and large, completely out of touch with the real world. This may not count for all universities/colleges or their staff, but in my experience most work given is largely pointless and taught by lecturers that have never been out of the academic environment - meaning they have no idea how things happen 'out there.'
As I said, this probably doesn't count for all lecturers and professors, but most that I know have ...
