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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
In the UK, you're barely even really considered 'middle-class' if you're an engineer, because of the association with dirtying your hands with machinery. Certainly not in the same social class as a barrister or banker.
The move to making everything a 4-year university degree isn't just a legacy of the past - it's still ongoing. Was there any need for Mount Royal College to scrap it's practical 2-year diploma programs and become a university? It's more prestigious for administration and professors. But now students have to spend double the time and money to get a degree. And as someone who has hired people with the both the 2-year diplomas and the 4-year degrees that replaced them, the graduates are no better qualified for the job. In some cases they're worse, because they have a more general education.
As an alumni, every time MRU comes calling for a contribution I tell them the same thing: You've doubled the cost of my kids' education (assuming they go there). I would have happily made a donation if you were still a college. But not now.
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The whole university system is such a racket....and the worst part is the taxpayer is paying the bill.
Universities get huge amounts of funding from the government. They take on way too many students and stuff lecture halls full of students taking useless degrees. They change the course materials and textbooks every 2-3 years, so students have to pay for brand new textbooks.
The newest scam is paid online subscriptions to electronic materials...The whole thing is so absurd.
When I look back on some of my undergrad classes, it's absolutely laughable. A lecture hall full of 500 students. Each one of them has paid for the course plus about $200 in materials and books. Half the profs could care less about what they are doing and are there solely out of obligation.