Sooner or later the education bubble will burst.
Either give everyone all the past tests, homeworks, and quizzes, or never give them back. Really, only the first option works best.
Make the professors come up with new assignments. They have jobs to do and ought to be doing them.
Drop Ernst and young quickly!!
Did you read the article?
It goes on to say that this will open up jobs to ‘work on class’ people that are normally locked out ...
I agree 100%. One of our “kids” in special effects knows more about programming than Pixar so-called tech guys. Didn’t study at those fancy art and media schools. One time at the Christmas party, we asked him which school he graduated from and we tossed the same ole digital arts schools.
He said “nope. I learned most of them from Youtube.” Beat the other guy from USC with a 40,000 tuition he still has to pay.
Drop any HS requirements also ....
There are quite a few congresspersons who hold stupid degrees.
Some junior colleges offer great accounting programs which force students to learn the nuts and bolts of the accounting process. Too many people now call themselves accountants because they can do data entry in QuickBooks. Haven’t a clue as to how to do a Journal Entry or interpret a Balance Sheet.
Many trainees can be taught on-the-job but I disagree that accounting is one of those fields.
They still require a degree, they are just going to stop requiring good grades in it.
Very true — I have seen people with a high school education outperform someone with a master’s degree in a technical field like programming. I say that as someone with a master’s degree.
That doesn’t mean degrees or grades are useless. It just means they are not destiny. There are very useful skills and knowledge to be gained from higher education, but also many skills few jobs actually require.
There are really two requirements to be successful at work: 1. Show up. 2. Do what you are told. If you at least attempt to do what you are told, you will eventually pick it up.
Not surprisingly, given the level of idiocy at that firm
Accountants there are some of the most dysfunctional people I’ve ever known.
“having found “no evidence” that success at university was correlated with achievement in professional qualifications”
i can believe that. especially given the nature of today’s college degrees, which are for the most part VERY EXPENSIVE pieces of paper awarded for accepting the visions of Marxists teachers.
Even during the best of times, proving that one can slough through miles of crap for four or more years does not necessarily prove that one is talented, innovative, perseverant, focused, disciplined, or a hard worker.
For those of us who aren’t British, what does “a 2:1 degree and the equivalent of three B grades at A level” mean?
Interesting, though they aren’t dropping the degree requirement for these jobs—only widening the requirements they will accept from applicants with the appropriate degrees.
This is especially pertinent in the UK, where they still have a brutal class divide. The US is more egalitarian and thus more of our brightest have sorted themselves up into a relatively meritocratic upper-middle class. Meanwhile, in the UK there are still plenty of bright working-class students who effectively miss out on the top academic tracks if they don’t get into it early and keep in relatively narrow grooves throughout.
I agree with you totally on wishing to see us beyond the sorting convention by which we require our young to suffer decades of leftist propagandizing and go into needless debt just to get a good job.
Nearly free online education with rigorous, secure testing should become at least one norm to be accepted for many entry-level positions. Of course, employers won’t accept such until they can be assure they will be able to find among the best available job candidates there, clearly distinguished from lesser hiring options.