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It is obvious from your statement that you have little knowledge of how business or corporate America works. So allow me to provide a little education for you.

The PRIMARY job of business is to make a profit. Business Leaders are expected to have their teams / groups / sections / divisions make a PROFIT. No business is able to operate at a loss forever.... because if they do, then the whole business collapses and even more people are out of work.

Constraining profits are two vectors. Revenue received for goods and services and the costs to deliver those services. Charge too much for your services, and you wont have enough customers purchasing your product. If you maintain a market viable price point, but allow you expenses, and education is an expense, go grow unchecked, you will not generate any profit and will eventually go out of business.

It is the job of the business leader to make the hard choices. To that end, given a fixed budget, I have to make the leader's decision on where to invest my limited training dollars. I will invest those funds in areas and technology that are growth areas. New and developing markets and other such high margin profit centers.

I will NOT invest money on getting some engineer with outdated skill (as most are when they graduate from college) up to the point where they now have enough skill to receive and benefit from the new market demand driven technology. If you don't have the latest skills.... which you are NOT going to get from a college, don't even bother applying for the position.

That is a tough stance a tough decision, but as a business leader that is responsible for the PROFIT of my team, that is what has to be done in order for our business to return a profit to the owners.

YOU SAID..."I will NOT invest money on getting some engineer with outdated skill (as most are when they graduate from college) up to the point where they now have enough skill to receive and benefit from the new market demand driven technology. If you don't have the latest skills.... which you are NOT going to get from a college, don't even bother applying for the position."

This statement alone doesnt make any sense. I wonder how much YOU know about managing or leading people, in particular, technical people.

Or perhaps you have a solution, in search of a problem...the solution is ASIA.

Business is built on relationships...PEOPLE...relationships not only with your clients or customers, but your employees as well.

Take the time to do some research, and study up on a guy who these days has gone out the window...HERTZBERG, specifically, his theory on MOTIVATION.