Schools are like businesses - they will offer products and services that their customers want. The customers in this case are students, not necessarily businesses. Students need to be aware that jobs are available which require the requisite skills and then these students need to pressure the educational institutions to offer the courses that will provide those skills. Businesses can indirectly influence the schools by assuring them that they, the businesses, will provide x number of tuition-paying students. Only when it is economically advantageous for schools to offer mainframe courses will they.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:21:28 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If the business community would make it clear to the educational >community that there are jobs to be had in this area, then there is a >good chance that they will include a mainframe focus in their curricula. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
