Universities are wildly expensive indoctrination centers.
It’s way past time for a new paradigm for learning.
Under statement of the year.
“It’s way past time for a new paradigm for learning.”
Actually, it’s here now. It used to be that an engineering degree was all you needed for almost any technical job. If you had that degree, you had most, if not all the skills needed for a wide variety of jobs. Now, if you want to apply for, say, a quality engineer’s job, you’ll need an up-to-date certificate from a private organization, in this case, the American Society of Quality Control. That means you took the ASQC courses, which are college level, and, you passed the ASQC exams. You will also need to take continuing education courses every year, and pay the ASQC a pretty heft amount. I don’t remember what it is off hand, but between the courses and the continuing education you’ll be a couple of grand lighter.
Several of the top top tech firms have announced you’ll need to go to THEIR college, which is run by and taught by their employees. And, the curriculum will be aimed at what they need. You’re not going to need history, English or basket weaving.
If you want to be a project engineer, you’ll need a certificate from PMP, Project Management Professional. Like ASQC, it’s going to cost you.
These certificates will eventually be instead of a college degree and they will continue to go up in price as they take over what used to be the exclusive territory of colleges. Colleges have screwed themselves by going political, diluting the curriculum with pure bunk, and overcharging. I look forward to the day they all go bankrupt.