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Originally Posted by Jason14h
But all the things listed above are jobs that require a specific skill/training, and don't always require university degrees (I'm guessing Architecture might?)
The issue is people leave school without a particular skill that makes them valuable, then the reach the 'real world' and quickly realize if you don't have a particular skill you can do that most people can not, it is hard to find someone to pay you !
And worst now, with universities that primarily exist to make money lower entrance requirements, everyone can get in and get a basic degree, meaning that degree is useless when leaving, other then running up a large debt. So a whole bunch of people who never should have/needed to go to university did, and didn't learn a particular skill. But since everyone is now convince they have to go to university, it creates a self fullfilling system where everyone needs to pay for 4 years of 'schooling' and loose 4 years of potential income and training in a real job to get right to where they should have been leaving high school.
With youtube and group teleconferencing, the old university structure should be dieing. But instead it is thriving by utilizing fear, lowering entrance standards, and by become high school 2.0, but without even the requirement to take basic math and sciences! And you can go for free and drink by getting a loan and delay the need to earn for yourself a minimum of 4 years! Maybe even stretch to 6 or 8!
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I'll agree that the university structure needs an overhaul.
but there is so much ignorance in your post about the value of a university education and how a university operates, I'm not sure where to start.