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Some people think that universities should provide graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in the workplace. Others think that the true function of a university should be to give access to knowledge for its own sake, regardless of whether the course is useful to an employer. What, in your opinion, should be the main function of a university?
In current society where acquiring a certificate in the university is apt to be essential to a successful life, what should be offered in the university has been encouraged to a controversy. Some people argue that universities should only impart skills and knowledge that can benefit graduates’ jobs. As far as I am concerned, I have to insist that universities should provide knowledge for its own sake and leave the free to the graduate to decide whether to use it in workplace or not.
It is admitted that under the ever rising stress of employment, the knowledge and skills gained in the university is pivotal for better adapting to the occupation. In terms of some occupation, one’s study in the university would lay a solid and essential foundation for the future work. For example, without the advance programing language taught in the university, a website developer can never create attractive and widely used social websites such as Facebook. However, this does not mean that universities should only impart practical skills that can be used on work.
The principle of university is to spread knowledge to every corner of the world, no matter it is job related or not. Universities should set up the more subjects the better to cover the most knowledge in the world. And students could be free to choose what ever they like in the university to engage in a deep study and maybe accordingly become an expert, but it is not a must that they have a career in the related field. It is the inculcation of knowledge that is the duty of universities, while whether using it in a career is the graduates’ decision.
To sum up, in my opinion, universities should not only provide opportunities to acquire practical skills that are significant in work but also other knowledge that is also an important part of human civilization. 总点评：
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In the midst of financial turmoil and massive layoffs, it is understandable that the majority of university students think of their future job security as a pressing priority. Accordingly, they tend to regard universities primarily as institutions where employment skills can be acquired.
This is especially time when we consider the fact that the cost of tuition and fees has been rising each year, which means to many, pursuing higher education is very much like making a substantial investment. Thus, university students and their parents alike tend to expect reasonable rates of return that can be, to some degree, quantified by the job skills students possess. 让步
Still, I wish to point out that merely equipping students with employment skills may defeat the very purpose of universities as educational institutions. Realistically, it would be very hard for university administrators and faculty to determine what technical skills and knowledge will be needed three or four years from now as the technology in many areas is updating itself on a daily basis. What will
also be at risk is the students' capacity to innovate because true innovations require thorough understanding of fundamental theories in the related fields rather than the ability to apply these theories in the workplace, which is exactly how we define the employment skill.
The main function of universities, therefore, should be building core curricula that stress the fostering of employment skills while at the same time, providing students with electives on the theoretical aspects of their fields of interest which not only facilitates their grasp of job skills but ensures their capacity to apply these skills innovatively as well.。