The Internet and the Web make e-mail, video conferencing, distance learning, and electronic skills assessment and measurement readily accessible to schools, workplace s and individuals. An education system that's out of sync with business. But with teachers still not comfortable using technology in their classrooms, and with students still falling short on basic skills, the disharmony between schools and businesses continues. And the basic skills business requires keep multiplying. A new emphasis on workforce skills.
Degrees are less important than competencies.
People can learn new skills not only in formal post-secondary programs, but on the job, over the Internet or in skills certificates programs. There is a growing market for skills certificates, in fact, while the demand for associate's degrees is flat. Old Rules Don't Apply More and more people also are learning cutting-edge skills on their own. They may have creative thinking skills fostered in the arts, such as music or theater. But they're the kind of people Buswell recruits to grow his business.