The job market!

This might really be a tricky issue ... Why are you learning?

Or in other word, why are seeking a certificate? Why are you studying for a degree? Why are you going to school?

One answer, of course, is "to get married" ... no "good" one will marry me if I am not educated!

Another answer may be "to learn and gain knowledge" ... OK! (another Goof)

But most of the answers will be "to find a better job!"

Do you really believe that the main goal of higher education should be to provide the job market with better employees? Do you really believe that you need a university degree to be a better employee or to be better prepared for the job market?

Personally, I doubt!

To be prepared for the job market, you probably need more of technical education, in addition to good level of soft skill! Basic management skill will definately be a very big plus!

Worldwide, higher education institutions are focusing on providing the job market with better employees, the industry has become a part of the advisory board of the educational instituions. More content that sutisfies the industry requirements is being added ... OK!

Let's think history for a while, what was it that braught universities to existance in the first place? Let's even go further, how did people get to learn before universities existed?

Seeking knowledge drove people to travel for days and nights to get to the person with knowledge (professor) or to reach a library where a book is keapt ... Later, as more people came to seek knowledge, groups of professors would gather in a place where students can visit them easier and more knowledge would be transfered easier ... Later, there had to be a system to insure coordination between different professors and learners, as well as insuring the delivery of a minimum amount of knowledge for those people to get them "certified"

As time went on, more people got to colleges as they realized the "knowledge", or to be more accurate "certification", gave them better opportunities to earn more money ....

Further down the line, investors realized that more people want to have "certification" so they created private institutes that collected professors to provide certification to students who needed to be "certified" ...

As the number of institutions became more, competition started to float on the top ... "I need to have more students to get more money or to sustain my existance" ... Then, to attract more "learners/students" the institutions started campaining that they provide better chances for there "graduates/certificate holders" to find better jobs ... and you can write the rest of the story!

Now do you realize the shift that has occured in the goals of higher education of the centuries, and mostly, in the past decades?

Where are the "learners" who are seaking "knowledge"?
Who is going to prepare a generation of "educated" people who can help developing the human knolwedge?
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Please, take it seriously and tell me what you think!