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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Students in general expect a degree to open up a comfortable middle class white collar career.
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I'm not going to speak to the expectations of Canadian students, but if they are like American students their expectations may need some serious adjustment. American students really expect to come out of university and be handed a middle manager level job and then to be fast tracked to senior management. The idea of entry level positions is not on their radar. It's crazy.
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I agree that is an expectations management issue, but I'd comment that if society gets the message that isn't true any more you'll probably have a lot less demand for university from students.
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It would also stop universities from just milling paper. It is frustrating to see some of the students that are graduating, because they just cheapen the degree of everyone that came before them. The value of a degree continues to drop because there are too many people with them that don't deserve them. The only way to re-establish the value of a university education is to make it mean something again. It's too easy to get a degree IMO because the schools do not enforce any level of rigor in maintaining the integrity of the coursework and degree itself.