Schools that train students in technical skills for a specific field of work are more successful, as measured by the percentage of students that gain employment in full-time jobs in the six-month period following graduation, than are institutions that teach a liberal arts curriculum. Technical schools have a student employment rate of approximately 65 percent, whereas liberal arts schools have a rate of only 56 percent. This difference reveals that technical schools are more effectively meeting the challenge of providing education than are liberal arts schools. Which one of the following is an assumption on which the above argument rests?
C) The percentage of students that gain employment following graduation is a measurement of that school's ability to provide education. D) The sole function of education is to help students gain employment. |