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Theory vs career training in college is not a simple issue. In reality many students are going to college because they want a job, that’s the goal, that’s why t
by user3939382 3y ago
Theory vs career training in college is not a simple issue. In reality many students are going to college because they want a job, that’s the goal, that’s why they’re there, that’s why they’re paying. Employers want graduates with practical skills.
This is a huge divergence from the University landscape in the 20s for example, where the purpose really commonly was “we’re here to think thoughts, for their own sake.”
I don’t necessarily mind the latter, it has a role and purpose for humanity, but it’s also not compatible with the existing paradigm that every HS grad has to go to college and accumulate debt to have any chance at a career.
Colleges do need to get real about their contemporary role or accept massive scaling back. Right now college enrollment is shrinking because of these issues.
- pictureofabear 3y agoAnd trade school enrollments are up. https://thehustle.co/04242023-trade-school-enrollment/ https://thehustle.co/04242023-trade-school-enrollment/ Universities will need to get used to smaller enrollments. https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/college-enrollment-statistics/#:~:text=College%20Enrollment%20Trends%20Over%20the%20Years,-According%20to%20data&text=In%202021%2C%2061.8%25%20of%20recent,16%2D24%20enrolled%20in%20college.&text=The%20U.S.%20experienced%20a%20college,during%20the%20COVID%2D19%20pandemic.&text=Total%20college%20enrollment%20(graduate%20and,spring%202019%20to%20spring%202023 https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/college-enrollment-sta....
- throwaway5959 3y agoEveryone going to trade schools is just as stupid a line of thinking as everyone going to college, and yet I hear the former now all the time.
- mnky9800n 3y agoWhat if we combined universities and trade schools then we kill two birds with one stone.
- user3939382 3y agoThat’s already happening in many cases as universities launch their own clock hour programs.
- namaria 3y agoThe human tendency to decree how large scale, complex systems ought to be never ceases to amaze me. Everyone thinks they understand and have the right opinion about problems that have been with civilization for 5 thousand years or more. The very nature of economics and education paradigms means the continuous adjustment is the correct process. Yet all sorts of people who never had to be responsible for more then a household and some team of workers think they have the answer.
- fsckboy 3y ago> This is a huge divergence from the University landscape in the 20s we're still in the 20s