Davis: Getting people to move to Columbus, particularly with the newer and higher-level skill sets that we are looking for, can be a challenge.
"Ph.D.s are needed in the critical-thinking phase, which requires higher-level skill sets," explains Wendy Penry, associate director of human resources for HGS.
At a time when higher-level skills and education are being pushed as America's way to succeed in a global economy, it is alarming that some of the country's biggest banks can choose to disinvest in students simply because they attend non-elite postsecondary institutions.
Second, she hired a consulting firm and, through them, installed a management team with the higher-level skills and experience needed to create a growth plan that addressed declining operating revenues and accelerating revenue growth.
Through this assignment she learned the material skills of how to find a book in the library and how to use an online journal database, as well as the higher-level skills of summarizing an influential argument and determining its cross-disciplinary relevance.
The teacher also reads more sophisticated stories to the students as a way of leading them toward higher-level skills.
I think it can bring higher-level skills to a wider cohort of young people, and help them achieve good earnings.
In the first stage, novice drivers take basic training in class, followed by behind-the-wheel training and then a return to the classroom "for higher-level skills, when they are more ready for them" he said.
Yet if the current funding model is to prove sustainable, today's policymakers must still ensure a healthy graduate labour market in which higher-level skills earn higher-level rewards.
