I agree, I think University in it's current form has been more about being able to efficiently cram as many students into programs as possible and keep pumping out the degrees. The goal no longer seems to be too focused on the education itself. I so often am seeing my local universities take people by the boatload in areas that have very little jobs. 100's will graduate with degrees that barely help them and have almost no jobs available to them. What they were taught is so fact/figure based that there is little practical skills they can apply to real life. So many people I find will go and take courses at the local colleges after to make themselves actually hirable. In Canada I believe our "colleges" are equivalent to community colleges/trade schools in America just for context.
I did a minor in psychology and so many classmates went into things like a 2 year program in HR administration at the local college. Because their degree simply led nowhere. Unless they wanted to continue and get into some highly competitive masters programs there was little in the career prospects.
And then I find Universities in general have been suffering from a lot of admin bloat.
I got off on a bit of a tangent here, but overall I think Universities have been ending up going in the wrong direction. Online learning has made the problem of raw memorization for testing purposes an even more prevalent issue. And instead choosing to test using different/better methods, educational institutions would rather opt to keep using raw memorization while adding privacy invasive programs to monitor students.
I did a minor in psychology and so many classmates went into things like a 2 year program in HR administration at the local college. Because their degree simply led nowhere. Unless they wanted to continue and get into some highly competitive masters programs there was little in the career prospects.
And then I find Universities in general have been suffering from a lot of admin bloat.
I got off on a bit of a tangent here, but overall I think Universities have been ending up going in the wrong direction. Online learning has made the problem of raw memorization for testing purposes an even more prevalent issue. And instead choosing to test using different/better methods, educational institutions would rather opt to keep using raw memorization while adding privacy invasive programs to monitor students.