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Worthless Degrees

By ACS Distance Education on September 30, 2014 in Education | comments
From an article in a UK newspaper (The Telegraph), September 2014:

Today's university students may be being sold a lie

Expanding higher education has led to too many useless universities, useless degrees and useless graduates, says Alex Proud


When a sizeable chunk of today’s students leave, they discover they’ve been sold a pup. Graduate with a Bachelor’s in a soft subject from a low-rent uni and you jump a couple of places in the line for a call-centre job. You’d have been far better off spending the last three years working because by now, you’d probably be a manager in the call centre and you’d have a decent car, not £40,000 in student loans. 

The solution’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? Admit that our great educational leap forward hasn’t worked very well. Recognise we’re not delivering what the economy wants and that we’re deluding large numbers of university-goers - and decide that we’re going to stop.


See full article at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11124612/Todays-university-students-are-being-sold-a-lie.html 

The solution’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? Admit that our great educational leap forward hasn’t worked very well. Recognise we’re not delivering what the economy wants and that we’re deluding large numbers of university-goers - and decide that we’re going to stop.
The solution’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? Admit that our great educational leap forward hasn’t worked very well. Recognise we’re not delivering what the economy wants and that we’re deluding large numbers of university-goers - and decide that we’re going to stop.