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>We can’t train more people? I didn’t know Universities were suddenly producing waaaay less talent and that intelligence fell off a cliff. University enrolment
by graeme 1y ago
>We can’t train more people? I didn’t know Universities were suddenly producing waaaay less talent and that intelligence fell off a cliff.
University enrolment is actually set to sharply decline. It's called the Demographic Cliff: https://www.highereddive.com/news/demographic-cliff-colleges-closures-retention-attendance-diversity-wiche/743636/ https://www.highereddive.com/news/demographic-cliff-colleges...
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoOff topic, but: Supply and demand says that, if university enrollment drops sharply, the price of a university education should go down. That sounds like good news to me.
- ewuhic 1y agoIn a homo economicus world. They will jack the prices up for the remaining few.
- thijson 1y agoHere in the USA, education at some schools is kind of a luxury good. When the price goes up, the demand increases.
- solatic 1y agoUniversity enrollment doesn't drop sharply evenly across all universities. The lowest-desirability universities will go bust while the Ivy League continues to have hyper-competitive admissions and yearly tuition increases that outpace inflation.
- bix6 1y agoExcept it won't because a degree is a gate and people will pay whatever is demanded of them for it. Numbers go up never down.