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College Reforms Essay

Colleges are institutions offering tertiary education to post high school students. These are important institutions that prepare young adults for their future career and professional lives. However, the college education in our state needs reforms. That is because the system has not been overhauled for a long period. Dynamics of life and careers keep changing, however, college education has remained unchanged for a long time. For instance, commerce courses offered in the 1980’s and earlier periods continue been offered, the same trend has been noted in engineering courses. Only a few amendments have been made. Therefore, graduates are ill-prepared for their future roles at the work place. They end up unable to efficiently run the workplace or perform their tasks in a satisfactory manner. It is for that reason that reforms must introduced to college (Zhao, 43).

Education reformists will as act as a catalyst for the change that is necessary in these institutions(Gindis, 3). If the change does not happen, we risk having redundant courses been offered in the institutions, thereby wasting resources available alongside ruining the lives of people as they will not acquire jobs after their graduation. Failure to reform the college education sector will in the course of time lead to complaining citizens as the education quality dwindles and courses become irrelevant to the students. Also, we may find that organizations and firms will begin importing qualified workers, the country’s economy may also fall as the citizens will seize being productive. Furthermore, communities and people interested in the education sector may fail to understand why the colleges use state funding yet offer substandard education. Therefore, the colleges will fall out of favor with the people they supposedly serve.

From the above, we gather that reformists must act and introduce amendments. It should be noted that the entire system does not need overhauling. Instead the faulty parts should be corrected. Overhauling the whole college education system will require a lot of resources; time, monetary, and expertise (Jones-Kavalier, et al, 33). However, finding faulty clauses within the laws and regulations, then amending them to meet the workplace needs and changes will go a long way in averting the eminent problem that is anticipated in the near future. For example, modern ways of medicine and treatment have come up. However, doctors that were trained in medicine previously and that have not attended or participated in-service trainings and symposiums may be unable to use the new and improved treatment options. Therefore, they may continue treating their patients using the old methods that may or may not be effective and take a lot of time. In such a case, there is a need to introduce a reform that will make it compulsory for doctors and other professionals to attend in service training, as that will make them aware of the new discoveries in their fields. Therefore, they will be more effective while at work as they will incorporate the latest developments in their fields, hence their output will undergo continual improvement.

Additionally, college reforms are necessary in places where the institutions have fallen out of favor with the community members. That may happen for a variety of reasons; among them; unruly college students, land disputes between the community and the college, failure of the college to undertake its social corporate responsibility of empowering the community. These things happen if there are rules that prevent the college from engaging in constructive activities with the general public. For instance, a college built in the rural area has the corporate duty of helping the community develop. Corporate responsibility is important for institutions because it endears the institution to the community in addition to developing the community. For instance, a college situated in a remote area may undertake corporate responsibility by researching fields that may benefit the community economically. The research must include economic activities that will benefit him economically. Reforms in this case, will help the community benefit and the community will in turn co-exist peacefully with the college (Carnevale, Anthony et al, 123)

Furthermore, the college will benefit from offering courses required by the job market. Reforms that help the college offer courses with a regard to the job market will help both the community and the students (Boaler. 19-24). For example, reforms should be introduced to ensure that courses that move with the dynamics of the work place. For instance, the finance market changes with time. It has also incorporated other aspects of banking that were not previously there. These include online banking. This should therefore be introduced in colleges to ensure that the graduates are fully baked and able to work in the changing environment that includes the changes and inventions taking place in the area. These incorporations will help the college graduate students that are ready to work in their intended job sectors. Therefore, reports of dissatisfaction will reduce drastically among the students, evaluators and other involved stakeholders in the college education sector (Selingo & Jeffrey, 77).

The move will demote importation of skilled as the citizens will comfortably and efficiently run the duties at their specific workplaces (Hazelkorn, 106). Currently, the country imports labor in many industries, for instance, the USA has imported thousands engineers from India. If reforms were in place, that would not be the case. The country would produce its own engineers who would perform the engineering duties and tasks in the field. That would cut back the foreign workers and help develop the state’s economy. Foreign workers send money home, denying America a chance at developing of their earning while they develop their countries. It is not wrong to help other countries develop, however, the country ought to also develop from investments been made by the workers. In many cases that does not happen as they invest in their home countries.

From these, we see that college reforms are necessary. They will help improve the quality of education offered and tailor courses to ensure that they meet the job requirements. These will help ensure that the redundant courses that are offered in the same institutions. Also, the reforms will also ensure that the job market will benefit from the improved graduates that will be now graduated from the institutions (Mehta, 98). Graduate and student complaints against the services offered alongside dissatisfaction will be quelled. Many a times, graduate have to undertake professional courses to ensure that they secure jobs. When graduates fail to secure employment for the courses that they studied for, they often feel that the system has failed them. They may be right. However, playing blame games will not help solve the problem, on introduction of reforms will help solve it.

Stakeholders and educational reformists are therefore encouraged to ensure that they implement reforms that are beneficial to the community, students and the state as well. In that case, the beneficiaries are not only the college graduates but also, the job market will get an influx of able workers, the government’s investment on education will also be profitable (Khanna, 44). Communities will also benefit from corporate responsibility actions that colleges will undertake. Therefore, the move will be a success all round. However, it will be necessary to amend laws and include a clause or clauses that will enable the education offered be monitored and improved with the societal needs (Innes 109).

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