Technology is advancing at such a rapid rate that it’s making it nearly impossible for traditional higher education institutions to keep up.
“The thing that I would encourage universities and colleges to do is really focus on teaching agile learning and making sure that the students that are graduating from programs are aware of the fact that they’ve got to continually reinvent themselves. Because if they don’t, they run the risk of not having the prerequisite skills to land the right opportunity in our innovation economy,” says Anthony Williams, vice president of global talent and acquisition at Akamai Technologies.
The good news is there are some strong alternatives to college that are setting people up for a career path in tech to fill a growing skills gap.
“The tech sector has created this incredible demand for talent. So much of a demand that it outpaces the supply — you’ve got half-a-million jobs that go unfilled,” says Williams.
We look at how Kenzie Academy, Make School, and programs from Creating IT Futures and Akamai are reinventing the traditional higher learning model academically, culturally, and financially for students who want to pursue tech and continue learning in an affordable way.
Read our story on Make School here: http://bit.ly/2UBG1Md
More on Kenzie Academy: http://bit.ly/31urwLi
More on Creating IT Futures IT-Ready program: http://bit.ly/2S4twHi
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