Trouble at the diploma mill

Three years ago, Ron Bruder was building shopping malls in America. Now he’s in the Middle East, but as a developer of human capital, rather than retail centers. As founder and CEO of Education for Employment, an NGO aimed at boosting the skills of Middle East graduates, he believes graduates have been shortchanged by their colleges and universities.

“A lot of the countries that we’re operating in, there’s a disconnect between the level of education people get and the jobs that they don’t get. It’s an acknowledged disconnect, I’m not telling tales out of school. They go through four years of college and at the end of the day, the joke is they maybe get a bride from a better family, but they don’t get a job. We’re trying to change that,” he says.

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