There goes the “HS diploma or GED” requirement.
Whereas if you hire based on a candidate's performance during a job interview, or your gut instinct, or a friend or relative's recommendation, well, how do you quantify that? How do you defend your hiring decision if hit with an employment discrimination lawsuit?
Loan forgiveness is still not a sure thing. The university is already bleeding credibility. Loan forgiveness will dilute it double.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has a training facility on the road I use to drive home.
The parking lot is always full.
From the requirements it seems like a Master Electrician has as many years of education and apprenticeship as does someone with a Master’s degree from some university.
The government shouldn’t be in the student loan business to start with.
I agree. I don’t want my heart surgeon to have a college degree. An online course from the University of Phoenix should suffice...
The problem isn’t that degrees are “mandated,” its that degrees are used as a first level weeding out process by lazy corporate Human Resource (or the more stylish “Talent Management) departments for their hiring processes.
No degree, automatic rejection of resume.
The use of the college degree as an entry requirement started when companies were discouraged, and some times prohibited from having a skills exam for new hires.
Just saying.
You have two hours to type up a rental agreement form.
Pretend my daughter has to learn to use Word. Type up a quick start guide for her. You have three hours.
Type up what you know about the Revolutionary War, including its causes, in four hours.
Pretend I don’t know how to use program W. Pretend to teach me how to use it.
Many years ago, back in the 80’s, Frito-Lay decided that the old fashioned route salesman had to go. They started replacing the route drivers with idiots with marketing degrees.
Yes, that experiment fell apart just as quickly and spectacularly as you might expect.
The average person with a degree doesn’t want to get their hands dirty.
Where I worked the hourly employees with a trade made far more money than their salaried managers. Like 50% more. Granted they worked rotating shifts and had little vacation, but it was sometimes embarrassing. An electrician or machine operator making $125K and their supervisor(must have degree) making only $85K.
I should get the degrees for the student loans I’m being forced to pay off.
Let this report be a warning to parents about which schools are producing unemployable graduates.
-PJ