Posted on 09/19/2013 5:40:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
/johnny
I recommend tax accounting.
Lots of work!
Universities world wide have a problem with dropping enrollments. The human population growth is slowing As a result you are seeing many small institutions have increasing problems. The first thing that is going to get the axe are things like “Gender studies” which can be absorbed into areas like Anthropology, Sociology and the like.
There is going to be a huge retrenchment of higher education in the next 50 years or so. I sort of think as a professor that I am living in the twilight of the institutional university
/johnny
pingo
Big Education is one of the funding mechanisms for liberals. That’s why budget for it will be impossible to reduce. As long as kids (suckers) are willing to borrow to the hilt to pay for unusable degrees, the charade will continue.
Bloomberg reported today that all the increase in women’s employment comes from waiting tables. You don’t need a college degree to ask, “You want fries with that?”
Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider.
What’s the problem? Just have the IRS issue everybody a college degree and a check for $1,000,000. We’ll all be smart and rich!
The longer they stay in school, the more highly indoctrinated they can become and as a bonus they are NOT out in the workforce looking for those non existent jobs. Its a win win for the Marxists,
Mike Rowe (from the reality show "Dirty Jobs")
Great post, and the reason it’s done is to route taxpayer subsidized funding via colleges to overpaid profs and admins who donate heavily to Democrats.
Meritocracy. A degree, no matter how useless, for the sake of having a degree. It’s the bar to entry put up by the HR folk who share similar views. A meritocracy degree shows that you have been properly indoctrinated, that you can “play ball”, that you will “get with the program”.
“A degree, no matter how useless, for the sake of having a degree. It’s the bar to entry put up by the HR folk who share similar views.”
Well, to some degree (so to speak), a non-technical degree is proof that you went through remedial HS education (if needed), and have some level of capability to finish something that you don’t “have” to finish.
College grads can always work up to being manager of McDonalds.
Tell young people to go to a two-year trade school that will place them in the fracking industry. Then come to PA.
Years ago I worked with an Iranian who left just before the Shah went down. I was grumbling about the bureaucracy in this country.
He gave me an Iranian example. He had to have his exit papers cleared by the authorities and had to go through 22 different guys, each adding his own rubber stamp. As No. 22 finished, he pointed to No. 23 and told the guy to go there. No. 23 precisely folded the papers twice, inserted it into an envelope and told him he was free to go.
The guy said that everybody who could went to college, but when they got out, the economy had no jobs for them, so the government took up the slack. It was the same with every department, bloated with college types with no place to go.
RE: Tell young people to go to a two-year trade school that will place them in the fracking industry. Then come to PA.
They could probably come to New York if by some miracle, our government allows fracking...
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