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45% Of US Companies Plan To Axe Bachelor's Degree Requirements
The Daily Mail ^
| 11/29/23
| Neirin Gray Desai
Posted on 11/30/2023 8:19:36 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1
Is it dumbing down? Or is it a method of avoiding the "woke"?
Could be both.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:21:54 AM PST
by
Salman
(It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
To: Enlightened1
The High School “diploma” today is equal to a 6th Grade “graduation” certificate a few decades back.
Companies are going to be hiring complete ignoramuses who cannot read, write or cipher (channeling Jethro).
I wonder why they are doing this. Hmmm...it’s a mystery.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:22:40 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: Enlightened1
My worthless associates degree lives!!!
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:23:07 AM PST
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: Enlightened1
'A person's educational credentials are not the only indicators of success, so we advanced retarded our approach to hiring to focus on skills, experiences and potential,' CEO of Accenture North America, Jimmy Etheredge, told the outlet.Fixed.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:24:16 AM PST
by
4Runner
To: Enlightened1
Wise move. Today, a BA issued by most US universities means you’ve been indoctrinated for 4 years by the communist faculty.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:24:44 AM PST
by
Signalman
To: Enlightened1
Today’s BA grads are less educated than yesterday’s high school dropouts so why care about a diploma?
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:24:48 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
To: Enlightened1
Been saying it for years...we need more apprentice programs and/or trade schools.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:26:01 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
( )
To: Salman
I’m thinking it’s to hire the people coming illegally over the border.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Many college graduates can barely read as well these days. What they should be doing is avoiding people under 40. LOL.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:26:38 AM PST
by
Codeflier
(Don't worry....be happy)
To: SaxxonWoods
See Post #3. That's exactly why we need the ones with the BA/BS degree so at least we know they function at high school level. Today's HS grads are a joke waiting to unravel.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:28:42 AM PST
by
4Runner
To: Enlightened1
Too many kids coming out of college are utterly unprepared for the workplace. Worse the indoctrination baggage = employees who cause constant trouble over contrived nonsense. Who wants employees who come crying every time they hear something they don’t like?
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:29:29 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Enlightened1
We don’t need any steenkin employees with STEM degrees cause we got AI software.
To: Sacajaweau
Exactly. Those in “skilled trades” like electricians, plumbers, home-builders, etc. are doing very well. Our granddaughter is in “nursing school” which is a skilled trade/profession.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:32:42 AM PST
by
GAgal
To: Enlightened1; All
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:32:59 AM PST
by
Reily
(!!)
To: Enlightened1; All
Did any of you read to the final paragraph?
A report published by the Burning Glass institute last year described the growing trend of cutting degrees as a requirement as 'an essential step in reducing inequity in the American labor market.'
Seems part of the motive is that blacks are less likely to have a college degree, so some companies are replacing B.A. requirements with how one contributes to a company's diversity.
To: 4Runner
While your take seems logical, I’m suspicious students are worse off after college these days. I graduated in the 70’s and it took me about 10 years to throw off the commie indoctrination.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:34:45 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
To: Enlightened1
45% Of US companies switch to McDonalds hiring plan if they are warm hire them.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:35:31 AM PST
by
Vaduz
(....)
To: Salman
I can tell you from personal experience that even in my own STEM field that requires a bachelor of science degree as a bare minimum for professional licensure, you’re better off hiring a sharp high school graduate as an intern than a college graduate who is likely to be highly defective by the age of 22.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:37:24 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
To: Salman
Companies can't dumb down without killing productivity. What they
can do is avoid useless Woke degrees and the people who seek/have them, pay people less, and educate/train their own people to meet their needs.
Online resources like KhanAcademy.org can help train people in math skills much more quickly, more effectively, and less expensively than colleges anyway.
If a company wants some of its people to have degrees in certain applicable subjects, it can send them to night school (even online).
This is a great model that has been a long time coming.
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posted on
11/30/2023 8:38:24 AM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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