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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
Half these "universities" need closing down. Kids should learn more trades.
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A bit over-simplistic to say that all kids should be learning trades - yes we could do with a few more tradies, but obviously if you have too many then the market is over-saturated and no one can make any money.
Good quality higher education will be useful no matter what you do in life although yes the caveat there is "good quality" - actually teaching higher learning/thinking and critical analysis, not degree factories just churning out more rote learning.
And perhaps, people should take on a degree when getting that degree becomes part of their career journey... rather than getting the degree first "for the sake of it" and then trying to shoehorn it into a career. In hindsight, 18 seems young for Uni unless it's to start down a specific track that has a long training time (e.g. medicine) and most young people would probably find themselves with a clearer vision of what they want to do if they waited until 21.