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When education becomes a business students become your customers. And the last thing you want to do is piss off your customers by failing them.
by paxys 1y ago
When education becomes a business students become your customers. And the last thing you want to do is piss off your customers by failing them.
- dagw 1y agoBut if you can sell those customers a better product at the same price, then perhaps everybody will be happier. As it is now no one is happy. CS staff are annoyed that the students don't want to learn CS, and the students are annoyed since most of the CS they are forced to learning isn't relevant for the web developer job they want to apply after graduation.
- paxys 1y agoWell according to the linked data 94%+ of CS graduates have well paying jobs in the industry, so not sure if "no one is happy" is accurate.
- ghaff 1y agoThere's an argument that a huge amount of the specific engineering theory that students learn never gets applied in a lot of jobs. I used some for a few years in mechanical engineering but not really a whole lot. A lot more was sense in managing projects. And, while I took a programming course (wouldn't call is CS), it probably didn't really help me in my job a lot more than the limited programming I took in high school did.