Dear Sir, one of the points mentioning that higher education as a
passport to a lucrative job and a successful career has been grossly
over rated is true to a large extent.
I guess this myth has been created by the Educational Institutes with
the object of getting high enrollment in their programs. This
continues despite the above assertion being true.
Sooner or later, the prospective student would realize the utter
futility of chasing higher education for a lucrative job.
When we were in college,it used to be said that the best jobs were
taken by the fresh graduates, a person opted for a post graduate
degree when he did not get a job or he got a lowly paid job. Still
worse was the plight of the doctorates who could hope for only the
poorly paid research or teaching jobs.
This was in the seventies and now we have turned a full circle with a
lot of freshly minted PhDs going after jobs at the bottom of the
ladder.
Best Regards,
K.Paranjpe
On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:15:37 +0530 wrote
> I have collected few very important issues in Higher Education from
a Paper Presented by Stefan Popenici and Sharon Kerr , presented in
Rotary Club of Sydney CBD, Australia on 03/12/2012:· The Changing the
landscape for higher education: the significant increase of youth
isolation and marginalization, graduate unemployment andpersistent
underemployment, a concerning economic forecast of a constant
slowdown of global growth (with implications for numbers of
international students) and issues evolving from the global ageing
population (and implications on lifelong learning strategies and
numbers of local students). There is even more on the horizon and –
while teaching and learning are still organized within university
walls by models designed in early 1960s – the pace of change is
accelerating.· Statistical data reveals that there is another tornado
approaching higher education and economic growth. This is represented
by youth marginalization. An entire generation is now discovering
that the long held belief that education is the way to find a decent
job is just a lie or, at the best, overrated. Around the world, an
increasing number of graduates are realizing that very few jobs are
available to young people and that most of those available do not
require a university degree.· In May 2012,Timepublished an
interesting analysis of possible causes of college enrollment
declines, it started by noting: "Harvard, Yale and a few other
selective universities may be announcing record numbers of
applications for the semester beginning in the fall,but higher-
education officials are fretting about ominous signs that overall
college enrollment is starting to drop."· This uncertainty is a major
factor of change for higher education. Students now question the
wisdom of taking out a significant loan no longer seeing that a
university degree will set them up for life. Universities are seeing
their model crushing before their eyes. Regrettably, many
universities have treated their students for a long time as faceless
cash-cows held hostage to their market of information, skills,
certification and qualifications.· This situation should require at
least some answers from those who said for the last decade that
"academia should learn from business" and that efficiency and
(financial) surplus is all that matters. Most probably in time the
same voices will lecture the same audiences how obviously silly it
was to accept as viable the abdication and abandonment of principles
of academic freedom and intellectual autonomy. They will note that
eroding the core of academic life for the enthusiastic adoption of
the principles of market mechanisms was the central cause of the
cataclysmic landscape of higher education that they face.·
Unfortunately, the hegemony of a unique paradigm based on a neo-
liberal policy and management framework still restricts the
collective imagination to look for and apply alternative solutions.
The marketization andMcDonaldization of higher education came with a
great price for universities, economies and the future of our
economic growth. The most important part may be that this unique
model – aggressively promoted by conservatives as the only sane
solution for higher education – suppressed a genuine debate on a
variety of issues of crucial importance for universities in the 21st
century.EDUCATE, EMPOWER, ELEVATEBholanath DuttaFounder, President &
Convener: MTC GlobalWeb
Link:www.mtcglobal.orgEmail:bnath.dutta@gmail.com/president@mtcglobal
.orgCell: + 91 96323 18178
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