COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE ON INVESTMENTWATCH
American institutions have been handing out meaningless
degrees and certificates for decades now.
There is often no relationship between program spaces and
the economy's actual needs for particular training - no effort to ascertain
that.
There are increasingly lower standards for admission. Not
only are hugely inflated high school grades accepted - no one fails in public
schools anymore - but the acceptance level cut-off on standardized tests has
plunged in some cases.
There are increasingly lower standards for passing courses
and obtaining degrees and certificates.
America has always had the ridiculous system of giving
degrees for sports performance, with no attention paid to academic ability, but
the attitudes from that bad practice seem to have spread more widely.
Post-secondary education has become a money-making operation
on a vast scale because the one thing that has not gone down is fees.
