Some people believe that university education should focus on the skills of employment for the future. Others think that university education should focus on academic study only. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

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In today's university
education
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, is the cultivation of employed skills or academic
study
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more significant? There is a heated debate about
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issue. Some people
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the former while others
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the latter. Obviously, with the popularization of
college
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education
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, the number of
college
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students is increasing, and
employment
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is becoming more and more difficult.
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, much of the knowledge in
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courses is already beyond the requirements of most jobs
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and gradually begins to keep away from the basic requirements of social production.
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, for individuals, it is easier to gain recognition by companies to master practical
employment
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skills. And most people go to
college
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just to find a satisfying job. Based on these, I think
college
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education
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should take the cultivation of employed skills as the mainstream. Admittedly, nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technology and
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, people's life has enjoyed unprecedented convenience and comfort. As we all know, science and technology is the
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productive force. And those achievements depend on progress in academic research. Countries are spending a lot of money to cultivate talents in academic
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. Universities are the most important research institutions, and graduate students are the representatives of the scientific research ability of schools.
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, universities should focus on the cultivation of academic
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at the graduate level rather than blindly at the university level. In a word, the mainstream of university
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focuses on
employment
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, which can reduce the increasingly tense
employment
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problem. As for
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study
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, it is more appropriate to focus on the postgraduate stage.
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