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Originally Posted by westopher
So only rich people should be able to partake in higher education. You should be ashamed of yourself. This is one of the most embarrassing things I've read on RS.
University has become overrated because its a business, that has lost a lot of interest of the future of its alumni. They pump thousands of people through a year for a degree where only 20 jobs will be offered with no responsibility of sharing the information of bleak employment prospects when new students are entering a program. How many education degrees do you think UBC handed out last year? And how many jobs are there to be had in that field? UBC knows, but I'm willing to bet the students didn't know. Is it their own fault? Maybe, but when they don't offer readily available information on the topic, when they have it to offer, thats poor business ethics.
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Honestly, I both agree and disagree.
If you have a guy(or girl) from limited means taking out fat loan after fat loan to get a degree in a field that may or may not create the means to make the amount of those loans a non-factor in their lives then the loans can become a barrier to his life.
And realistically, that degree isn't overly rare.
Go back in time, and a university education was a rare thing. Elite families sent elite children to elite schools, and they in turn took their place among the elite.
Now we have universities in malls.
So I think the point to be made isn't so much specifically keeping lower classes out of education, but that like anything else supply and demand is the basic building block of the economy.
Masters and doctorates take the place of the bachelors degree in terms of rarity. Unfortunately, the masters itself now doesn't even reward a jump in salary or means to a better life(if you read and believe the stats)
The supply of people with bachelors is so great, that more people can demand them. More universities produce them. But it seems that less jobs actually require them. Sure, lots "require" them in terms of job listings, but not so much in terms of job functions.
The ability to sign up to cheap loans so easily to finance an education makes it easy for institutions to provide those educations. You have a ready, willing and able customer base loaded with free money.
And more and more diplomas and degrees are produced making them all the less rare in the marketplace.
So I don't think its the most embarrassing thing to be posted on RS(far fucking from it to be honest..like, srs...CiC perhaps?) but its the nature of the game.