I work for a professional training company and we now have lots of young people who would rather pay us for practical professional management qualifications rather than spend a fortune on university education.
It started during the lockdowns when the universities were taking money and offering nothing other than some lame zoom lectures.
Now I am training university staff to manage projects that push education online but they are faaar too late as more people are moving back into classrooms because the zoom training experience is too often nothing more than chalk and talk boring drivel.
This: "we now have lots of young people who would rather pay us for practical professional management qualifications rather than spend a fortune on university education." All we need is an understanding in the business community that the students you graduate will be more helpful employees than the graduates of establishment academia. Things could turn around very fast indeed!
How sad that college level education in this country has fallen to such a despicable low level. Evidently, students today are not interested in getting an actual education. Instructors have no interest in teaching or only teach that which is worthless or destructive. Foreign students came here once upon a time to get a great education. Now it seems the foreigners are here solely to steal secret or proprietary knowledge to bring back to their home countries. Teaching Marxist principles (as a force to destroy free market capitalism and democratic liberties) is hardly a wise use of billions of taxpayer dollars. It appears that there is some debate about whether the higher education system in this country can be reformed enough to be of some value. I have doubts as to whether the colleges and universities are salvageable. It is best not to rebuild on a crumbling foundation.
This: "It is best not to rebuild on a crumbling foundation." I think the future of education will return us to the direct relation between tutor and student, without the edifice of useless administrators.
Interesting...our university is required to affirm students are still attending after the first week or the college is forced to repay the student's financial aid to the government. (This arose from abuses like you are describing at your school.) Perhaps its time for a quiet informative call to the Trump officials at the Department of Education regarding your school's practices....
At every previous school where I taught, the registrar would drop any student from a class once the instructor informed them that the student had missed two weeks of class. Here, a student can miss more than a month, and they won't drop the student.
Our university had such massive fraud in this way that the government has put them on a tight leash. Even before the scandal and fraud plagued Walz administration, the US Department of Education figured out that Minnesota institutions are incapable of managing public funds properly.
I work for a professional training company and we now have lots of young people who would rather pay us for practical professional management qualifications rather than spend a fortune on university education.
It started during the lockdowns when the universities were taking money and offering nothing other than some lame zoom lectures.
Now I am training university staff to manage projects that push education online but they are faaar too late as more people are moving back into classrooms because the zoom training experience is too often nothing more than chalk and talk boring drivel.
This: "we now have lots of young people who would rather pay us for practical professional management qualifications rather than spend a fortune on university education." All we need is an understanding in the business community that the students you graduate will be more helpful employees than the graduates of establishment academia. Things could turn around very fast indeed!
A degree in post modernism or a professional qualification?
How sad that college level education in this country has fallen to such a despicable low level. Evidently, students today are not interested in getting an actual education. Instructors have no interest in teaching or only teach that which is worthless or destructive. Foreign students came here once upon a time to get a great education. Now it seems the foreigners are here solely to steal secret or proprietary knowledge to bring back to their home countries. Teaching Marxist principles (as a force to destroy free market capitalism and democratic liberties) is hardly a wise use of billions of taxpayer dollars. It appears that there is some debate about whether the higher education system in this country can be reformed enough to be of some value. I have doubts as to whether the colleges and universities are salvageable. It is best not to rebuild on a crumbling foundation.
This: "It is best not to rebuild on a crumbling foundation." I think the future of education will return us to the direct relation between tutor and student, without the edifice of useless administrators.
That would work with the right tutors. "Factory" education like factory farming provide economy of resources, but inferior quality.
Interesting...our university is required to affirm students are still attending after the first week or the college is forced to repay the student's financial aid to the government. (This arose from abuses like you are describing at your school.) Perhaps its time for a quiet informative call to the Trump officials at the Department of Education regarding your school's practices....
At every previous school where I taught, the registrar would drop any student from a class once the instructor informed them that the student had missed two weeks of class. Here, a student can miss more than a month, and they won't drop the student.
The accreditation process is a joke too.
Our university had such massive fraud in this way that the government has put them on a tight leash. Even before the scandal and fraud plagued Walz administration, the US Department of Education figured out that Minnesota institutions are incapable of managing public funds properly.
The administrators involved should have been jailed.