Some people think that universities should provide graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in the workplace.Others think that the true function of a university should be to give access to knowledge for its own sake, regardless of whether the course is useful to an employer. What, in your opinion, should be the main function of a univeristy?

Some individuals argue that college must teach and prepare students for their future

work

while others claim that the real function of a university is to provide the

knowledge

to their students ignoring if it will be useful in their future job or not.

This

essay agrees with the latter rather than the former and it aims to explain the reason for

this

opinion.

Firstly

, the necessary skills and

knowledge

needed to

work

are always changing and predicting those changes is utterly impossible.

This

happens for many reasons,

one

of them being technological advancement.

For example

, the fast growth in the field of communications created a new market for very small video producers in videos websites

such

as Youtube. The different skill sets needed to create videos are taught separately in college because companies usually require specialized workers like cameramen. Another reason for

this

change is social changes.

For instance

, the recent lockdown changed the way we live and

work

.

One

significant change was that people had to learn how to

work

remotely,

this

change was more significant to some workers than another. As an example of

this

, teachers had to learn how to teach their subjects online.

This

is a new skill that nobody expected.

Secondly

, if no

one

teaches a piece of

knowledge

because is not required in any job it can be lost forever because the time will come when nobody has learned it. Some

day

Correct your spelling

say

show examples

that

knowledge

can be useful but there will be no

one

to remember it. An example of

this

are

Change the verb form

is

show examples

some philosophy subjects. To conclude, the main reasons why , in my opinion, universities should give access to all

knowledge

are that it is impossible to predict what is going to be needed in future jobs and the

knowledge

that is

not taught is eventually lost.