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The obvious solution here is to separate education from credentialing. Have the government create uniform credentialing standards and allow anyone to attempt to
by yummyfajitas 12y ago
The obvious solution here is to separate education from credentialing. Have the government create uniform credentialing standards and allow anyone to attempt to achieve them for a small fee - e.g., $250 to take the exam for "US Govt. English B.A.".
Quality of instruction drops...
How do you know this?
What does suffer is the idea of a university.
Why should anyone (besides people looking to become non-adjunct professors) care?
- caseysoftware 12y agoThere are already accreditation groups such as ABET that review and score programs - http://www.abet.org/about-abet/ http://www.abet.org/about-abet/ There's absolutely no reason to get the government into a system that already works.
- yummyfajitas 12y agoThe government is already involved in determining which groups are allowed to accredit colleges. Those accreditation groups tend to require things that prevent a college from simply selling the credential without the education. The fact that the system already "works" does not mean it cannot be improved. Also, if you want to argue that credentials and education should NOT be separated, should we merge them in cases where they are currently separated? E.g., should stock brokers be required to go to Series 7 school before taking the Series 7 exam? If not, why not?
- madengr 12y agoI agree. Although ABET does not score, you are either accredited or not.