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USA Today: Community Colleges Take Lead in Retraining Retirees by Steve G on Oct 10, 2007 - 08:46 AM read 443 times |
NOTE: BSG Concours Executive Vice President Bob Morison - who leads the company's research in future best practice and is co-author of "Workforce Crisis" (Harvard Business School Press, 2006) - was interviewed recently for part of USA Today's special section on Education.
Boomers, adds Robert Morison, co-author of Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent, want to do the "same things young employees do. They want to do interesting work. They want a social workplace, and they want to be able to learn stuff on the job. So if there are programs that can jump-start their ability to do that, I think it's wonderful."
And retraining them at community colleges, where classes are relatively inexpensive, "is a brilliant idea," Morison says.
Read the full article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-10-02-retrain-retirees_N.htm
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