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It's useless to fight this trend. Schools need to recognize the need for change. They can: 1) Understand that outsourcing this way is an important skill and st
by AndrewWarner 18y ago
It's useless to fight this trend. Schools need to recognize the need for change. They can:
1) Understand that outsourcing this way is an important skill and start training for it.
2) Teach subjects that are so damn engaging that students actually want to learn them.
- turkishrevenge 18y ago1) A school should train for outsourcing? I don't understand why you would need to go to school for that. 2) You can't engage a student whose sole objective in life is the pursuit of money. Many, many students see universities as a path to greater income, nothing more. They have no interest in the subjects at hand.
- jrockway 18y agoI disagree on both points. Delegation is a good skill for a manager, but you don't go to a technical university to learn skills like this. You can pick it up in real life. (Also, it's most certainly unethical to delegate something and take complete credit -- and that's what the essay mills are supporting.) On the second point, the subjects already are engaging, it's just that people pick the wrong topics. If you think data structures are boring, don't get a computer science degree. If blood makes you ill, don't become a surgeon. If you think the law is boring, don't become a lawyer. Pick something that you enjoy, not something that you think will be "in demand" after you graduate. Predicting the future is not easy. Pick something you like instead.
- catz 18y agoOr an alternative is too just lock a class up for 3 days in a library while they write their essays (with not internet). Take home assignments are usually a mess - what I did was to force people to write tests. If there are 3 people in a group and only one is working - it will also come out.