The article at the below address discusses how universities have been overlooked as resources for corporate training.

Here's a quote, "...the rapid growth of corporate learning organizations over the past 10 to 15 years has made universities an underutilized resource by corporations and governments."

I'm not so sure I agree.  In fact, I would probably prefer to not draw upon the training resources of universities.  My reasoning is purely from my limited perspective and experience.  While I thoroughly enjoyed my educational experience in college, and I consider it one of the best investments of my life, and I respect and admire my professors, the lessons I learned were not very relevant to the business world.  The academic environment that taught me how to learn and reason for myself were much more valuable than the actual skills that I was taught.  Perhaps other fields of study were more "practical" than the computer science that I studied.

Secondarily, I have spent many hours on several projects with local universities in the past 8 years or so.  None of them were successful in transferring knowledge to the corporate world in such a way as to directly benefit companies or those companies employees.  That is not to say that the universities didn't have great people with outstanding talent, it just didn't transfer.  If anyone wants to discuss the reasons for this, please let me know.

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