I think higher education should be directly tied to apprentice programs right from the start. And when I say “apprentice” I mean a period of paid employment. This is not an unpaid internship.
People going into engineering, or medicine, or business should not have a huge problem finding an apprentice program that can supplement their on-going college education.
Gender studies? English? Anthropology? Hey, if you can find someone who will pay you to actually work in those fields, that’s just swell — carry on with your 4-year college education! But I would expect those useless majors to mostly dry up as people realize that they are not real fields of endeavor. Go major in coffee pouring and line up an apprenticeship at Starbucks.
Some. Where does the non-for-profit education go? Maybe these journals are run by people who mean to turn good fields into worthless fields of endeavor. BTW, modern education is focused on the pragmatic result$ of education (Carnegie etc.) The result?> Kids can't read.