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As colleges and universities send another wave of graduates out into the worl
As colleges and universities send another wave of graduates out into the worl
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2023-09-10
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As colleges and universities send another wave of graduates out into the world this spring, thousands of other job seekers with liberal-arts degrees like Martin’s find themselves in a similarly difficult situation. True enough, this is an era of record-breaking lows in unemployment. But technology companies, which are contributing the lion’s share (最多的部分) of new jobs, are simultaneously declaring a shortage of qualified workers.
It’s no surprise that high-tech companies rarely hire liberal-arts graduates. The need for technical expertise is so universal that even retailers are demanding such skills. "Company-wide, we’re looking for students with specific information-systems skills", says David McDearmon, director of field human resources at Dollar Tree Stores. "Typically we avoid independent-college students who don’t have them".
Fortunately for Martin, some invaluable help was at hand when he needed it. The Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, a network of 15 liberal-arts colleges in the state, has teamed up with local companies to bridge the learning gap faced by its members’ graduates. VFIC invited 30 companies to link the needs of businesses with the skills being taught in college classrooms. With grants from corporate sponsors VFIC asked 20 information-technology managers to help its members create an exam, based on the work students will be expected to do in the real world, to test and certify their technological proficiency.
The result, Tek. Xam, is an eight-part test that requires students to design a website, build and analyze spreadsheets (电子数据表), research problems on the Internet and demonstrate understanding of legal and ethical issues. Says Linda Dalch, president of VFIC: "If an art-history major wants a job at a bank, he needs to prove he has the skills. That’s where this certificate can help". This year 245 students at VFIC’s member colleges have gone through the program. The long-term hope is that Tek. Xam will win the same kind of acceptance as the LSAT or CPA for law or accounting students. "To know a student has taken the initiative and passed could mean that less training is needed", explains John Rudin, chief information officer at Reynolds Metals, one of the corporations that helped create the test.
All this begs an important question: Has the traditional liberal-arts curriculum become outdated? College presidents naturally argue that the skills their schools provide are invaluable. A B.A. degree, says Mary Brown Bullock of Atlanta’s Agnes Scott Collage, "gives graduates the ability to reinvent themselves time and time again ... and the knowledge and thinking skills that transcend a particular discipline or time frame".
Martin is finding that to be the truth. "It would be nice to have computer classes on my transcript (成绩单)", he says, but Tek. Xam has armed him with the power to learn those skills on his own — and a certificate to show he has done so. He’s now waiting to hear when his job as a network-support assistant for a large Boston firm will start. [br] What can be the best title for this article?
选项
A、Competition in Talent Market
B、Elimination of Independent Collages
C、A New Certificate for Liberal-Arts Students
D、A Job Hunting Course
答案
C
解析
属于主旨题,问“哪项作短文的标题最合适”。从短文第一段可知“... thousands of other job seekers with liberal-arts degrees like Martin’s find themselves in a similarly difficult situation.”:文科学生就业难。第四段提到“... ’If an art-history major wants a job at a bank, he needs to prove he has the skills. That’s where this certificate can help.’”,也就是说明了文科学生要想谋得职位,需要证明他们也掌握了技术知识,而这个考试能帮他们证明此能力。而第六段中也提到“... Tek. Xam has armed him with the power to learn those skills on his own—and a certificate to show he has done so.”,进一步说明该考试所得证书在就业当中的实用性。综上,本文介绍的是“为文科学生量身定做的一种新考试证书”,故C项为正确项。
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