From:	arcady@***.net arcady@***.net
Subject:	the value of corporate education
Date:	Tue, 13 Jul 99 11:43:10 +700

>>> Where the hell do you live that corporations fund PUBLIC
>>> schooling? The government does a bad enough job of it.
>>
>>If a corp is the major employer in an area, it could find it very beneficial

>>to fund public education to improve the quality of new employees. It is far


I tried to send my comments on this yesterday but it looks like it got lost
to the void of the net somewhere...


I can see a breakdown of education in 2060:

Primary school.
Trade School - Secondary School.
Work Force.

Primary schools would be state funded public schools, parent funded private
schools, corporate family schools, or corporate sponsored schools.

A student would go to primary school for somewhere in the range of 3 to 6 years.

If your parents work for a big corp part of the company benifits would be going
to the corporate family school. If not you'd end up in one of the other options.

Smaller corps would pool their resources into sponsoring local schools. In turn
they can dictate some of the course load and thus ensure a 'corporate friendly
and able' student body.

After primary school you'd go to trade school or secondary school.
If your parents where 'up the ladder' in the company or if you tested high the
company would send you to it's trade school were'd you'd learn to be the perfect
'company man' by the time you graduated at age of maturity.

If not you'd end up in a secondary school and again some of the better of these
would be sponsored by lesser corps looking to recruit their workforce from 'friendlies'.
Likewise there would be sponsored trade schools where smaller industries or
corps would pool together and fund the school and then get employees ready to
work at the end in a system that ensured a company got choice pickings of graduates
based on amount of funding.

Mages would be recruited at the latest by the age of primary graduation. Recruiting
after this would risk getting someone with a lot of power and inside knowledge
who may not be fully of the 'company mindset'. So streetmages would be those
who didn't get found at that young age. Even if a corp knew they had talent,
past that age it would be less wise to recruit them as 'loyalty' could not be
ensured.

Likewise larger corps would have recruiters in the smaller schools to pull in
top talent while it's young. Focusing on primary. I can even see an 'extraction'
scenerio where the runners have to get the top scoring pupil at a corp family
trade school. Say a 5 year old kid who's been found to be an otaku or a fully
awakened Mage. The 'purchasing' company having a full setup to 'recondition'
the child into their 'company family'. Or for a more heroic game; the runners
have to get the kid back.

If you don't have a 'lifetime job' by age 10 you're not going to 'go far'.