We also need to address companies gutting any internal training programs and then gate keeping jobs that really have no need for a college degree behind a requirement for any bachelor’s degree at all to be eligible for consideration. There’s way too many jobs that that in my father’s time had a 6 month probation period where they taught you the basics of a trade, where now they just contract college grads and hope a BA means they can figure it out on their own, in lieu of having proper in house training programs.
There are a lot of people who don’t really have any need for, or even interest in, a higher education who are going just because it’s become the bare minimum to get an okay job through this inflation of requirements for entry level positions. They get saddled with debt they don’t need (and can likely I’ll afford), while the curriculum gets dumbed down for everyone, in order to keep the schools’ numbers looking good.
To be clear, this isn’t a knock on any of these folks. I just think there need to be more viable routes to a career with a living wage for people who don’t want to go to university. Maybe they come back later in life, maybe they don’t, but they should still be able to find a job that affords them a dignified life.
We also need to address companies gutting any internal training programs and then gate keeping jobs that really have no need for a college degree behind a requirement for any bachelor’s degree at all to be eligible for consideration. There’s way too many jobs that that in my father’s time had a 6 month probation period where they taught you the basics of a trade, where now they just contract college grads and hope a BA means they can figure it out on their own, in lieu of having proper in house training programs.
There are a lot of people who don’t really have any need for, or even interest in, a higher education who are going just because it’s become the bare minimum to get an okay job through this inflation of requirements for entry level positions. They get saddled with debt they don’t need (and can likely I’ll afford), while the curriculum gets dumbed down for everyone, in order to keep the schools’ numbers looking good.
To be clear, this isn’t a knock on any of these folks. I just think there need to be more viable routes to a career with a living wage for people who don’t want to go to university. Maybe they come back later in life, maybe they don’t, but they should still be able to find a job that affords them a dignified life.