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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Post-secondary does't necessarily mean university, though. I don't have any problem with employers requiring applicants for most jobs to have a level of education above high school, but I'm completely against the trend in recent years for universities to be viewed as workplace training academies -- that's the role of community colleges, polytechnics, and specialized trade schools. For over a thousand years, universities as an institution have existed to provide holistic education in a broad range of subject areas (regardless of one's major), not job-specific training.
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Don't forget, for over a thousand years, men typically took on the occupation of their father and women didn't have occupations. Obviously labour markets and worker competition has affected the roll of universities and a university degree became a way to filter potential workers. I don't think the roll of most universities can go back to the way it was unless some other type of filtering system is developed. The modern world just isn't set up for it any more.