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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
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.
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The single largest contributor towards the necessity of university education for employment is the lower standards highschool students are able to meet as a result of public school cuts.
As a student returning to university in their 30s this year, I'm appalled at the relative lack of reading and writing abilities of some of the undergraduate students I encounter. Amongst faculty, this is an acknowledged problem that greatly contributes towards the factory floor atmosphere of many undergraduate courses.
Many businesses now identify college/university education for two reasons: 1) they are unwilling to train job applicants themselves, and B) highschool students no longer have the abilities to do the jobs they did just 15-20 years ago.
This is a real, significant problem and underlays some of the issues involved here with the 'asianfication' of campuses. Further evidence of this is the obscene amounts of 'paper editing' flyers located around campus; english majors who will essentially write a paper for you. This isn't just for the asian members of campus who may speak english as a second language, it's for the white kids who graduate high school who otherwise can't read and write at a post secondary level.