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Not OP but if a huge portion of students fail a course tangential to the ultimate practice for which they are in the program, and this comes midway through the
by voisin 4y ago
Not OP but if a huge portion of students fail a course tangential to the ultimate practice for which they are in the program, and this comes midway through the program so those students are now 10s or even 100s of thousands in debt / opportunity cost, then wouldn’t you chalk it up to a university’s failure to either (a) choose students for the program more capable of succeeding in the program or (b) teaching in a manner that doesn’t lead to so many failures, or (c) some combination of the two?
If one student fails, it’s that student’s failure. But at some point, once (x)% of the class fails, it is a systemic failure of the institution itself.
- fallingknife 4y agoThe problem is that universities have come to see them selves as agents of egalitarianism whose job it is to educate the masses and lift people out of poverty. But they derive all of their actual economic value from being an elitist weed out process for who gets high paying jobs. These two functions cannot coexist.
- voisin 4y agoI don’t know if either of your stated functions are true or just a cynical view of them, but regardless, if the explicit objective is to take in students and teach them certain things so out the other end they can perform certain tasks to certain standards, then my statements above are accurate.