Colleges respond to industry demands for ‘soft skills’
The Globe’s biweekly business-school news roundup. Employers and education providers don’t always see eye to eye on the job readiness of graduates. “There is a large gap in the perception of preparedness,” says Ali Jaffer, associate principal in the Toronto office of McKinsey and Co., and a contributor to one of its global reports that found employers and postsecondary education institutions at odds over the skills of graduates. In a 2012 survey by New York-based McKinsey, 75 per cent of education providers said...
