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  A comment on Conversation: If you could give computers one magical power, what would it be and why?

  Nov 14 2011: @James, looking at your bio you said you are interested in "...[how] computers can adapt to serve human needs". The thing that I wish is not magical but little futuristic; it'd be magical if it is granted right now. I propose "Personal Assistant", definitely analytics are used to analyze human behaviors and pattern. Similar technology can be adapted to serve every individuals needs, computers can be our very own personal assistant. They can analyze our work life and suggest if there is any news or article that we should be aware of, if we are looking for a job they can continuously keep searching - instead of us going to websites every week, they can suggest us to do our laundry, if some of your friend likes something particular and if something of that sort is newly released in the market they can advise us to gift to them on their b'day or send them a friendly fb message to inform them.. let your imagination go wild.. basically one single platform that can do everything..

• A reply on Conversation: What skills should future graduates possess ?

  Sep 20 2011: I definitely agree with you. 'Survival of the fittest' particularly hold true in the developing countries. I would say, one of the many important skills required by students in developing countries is 'persistence' and thus in order to develop this value/skill, they need support from their teacher/mentor.

• A reply on Conversation: What skills should future graduates possess ?

  Sep 20 2011: Absolutely. In addition to the Hard skills + soft skills, I would also add Ethical skills/values and then this would be the perfect combination.

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  Sep 20 2011: Definitely agree with openness, the world is coming together, people are collaborating over the net, students are flying overseas to study; multiculturalism.
  
  John Locke, leading philosopher of British Empiricism. Empiricists' as opposed to rationalists' believe that knowledge comes form experience, thus people from different culture have different experience, people from different countries have different experience and so thus some of the students in the class would have different ideas or sometimes completely radical. Thus it is necessary that students, in fact humanity as a whole have a open-mind, open to what the other person is saying and to the degree that they are open to actually also try out if what the other person is saying actually works.

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  Sep 20 2011: I absolutely agree, because then they would be doing what they actually like, what they love, what they are passionate about. This could also lead to creative and innovative business model, because every individual is different, different character traits, different skills, et cetera. Now, in order to deploy their respective skills they will have to be creative and think of something that suits them the best.
  
  The role of higher education in this case would be 'moralising' students, even though they are doing whatever they are good at, education is providing guideline to be ethical.

• A reply on Conversation: What skills should future graduates possess ?

  Sep 20 2011: Agreed. @Edward: "Today it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. That is not going to get you the job.", definitely agree with the point but Could it be because there is a gap between the skills acquired at university and the skills required in the workplace ? Additionally, supporting @Anthony & @Edwards's point, instead of teaching them politics, I say how about higher education provides opportunity to discover themselves, provides opportunity to get experience and acquire various skills. So if a person is studying marketing and is shy, then he/she can develop public speaking skills if university provides different opportunities. The question that now needs to be answered is, how can university provide such opportunities, which leads us to the main question - revolutionizing the Education system. Lastly, if a student has acquired the skills necessary to be successful in the career he/she is applying for, then there is no need to play politics, no need to deceive somebody, @Ed Schulte (above) no need to manipulate the system but rather give your best shot, show your enthusiasm and passion and you will definitely stand out.
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  A comment on Conversation: What skills should future graduates possess ?

  Sep 16 2011: Let me share my current experience, I am studying in Australia at a very well reputed university. As a part of my curriculum I am working with one of the BIG4 accounting firm on business innovation. Students are divided into groups and are allocated mentors from that company to provide you feedback.
  
  What surprises me, my colleagues are not driven by passion but they are still "manipulating" things to score marks. They are designing the "innovative" project based on the criteria that we will be marked upon and not on making project work as a whole. Issue that arises is, even though you might get "good" score on the written report but you would have certainly left some of the black-holes/black-boxes unanswered because these would be areas that might not have been covered by the marking criteria but are very important for the project that you are working on. They don't understand that in the interim reports they may get good marks but you will fail once you would be required to present the final project in front of the directors because they are certainly smart enough to figure out what is wrong with the project.
  
  Bottom line: Graduates are not driven by passion but by marks (they should certainly see the movie 'Paper Chase'). I know passion is not a skill but a very valuable quality that a graduate should posses.

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  Sep 13 2011: Thanks for the link; priceless.