It is clear you have not attended a university or college in the last 30 years. Kids these days are even getting weak ass milktoast computer science degrees and finding out afterwards that nobody is interested in employing them because they cannot engineer their way out of a paper bag. Something dramatic has to change. And it needs to come from both ends. Dry up the funding in the form of student loans and close a huge number of the schools and programs. What we have now is a distorted fiction with no proper market forces. |
To the extent that’s true, parents are to blame. College professors are more frustrated than anyone with the sorry state of incoming kids. |
Why do some people get their loans forgiven at all? wtf is that? |
Agree. Only 10% of US CS grads can do the work we need in our portfolio companies. Rest are checking boxes and dim. |
Half of themes grads who show up at Montgomery County community college have to take REMEDIAL high school math and English.
Wtf is that MCPS??!!?? Don’t graduate them. |
Half of MCPS grads going there take remedial high school classes.
Already highly subsidized by taxpayers. Both at MCPS and the community college. |
I am not sure you are understanding. The programs should not exist in the first place. These programs are a race to the bottom to "educate" kids - poorly - in subject matter they can't handle in a dumbed and watered down way. I did not want to work with the bottom half of my engineering school class - that was nearly 20 years ago. And, that was at one of the regions best engineering schools. Imagine what the quality is like when you start moving down the tiers - understanding there are exceptions to every situation, and there are remarkable candidates from lots of schools. Imagine also the quality of non-STEM and BS business administration degrees. The reality remains the same - a significant number of the schools and programs should not exist. The lack of comfort people have with that position is the false notion that "higher education" is the gateway to economic prosperity. It has actually become the opposite. We have kids spending four years studying nothing valuable and other humans spending resources and money to do the same, when they could all be doing something far more economically productive. That's the problem that needs to be solved. And it starts with drying up the funding in the form of student loans and close a huge number of the schools and programs. |
Half of Americas high school grads read and do math at a 7 or 8th grade level. They shouldn’t be using anyone’s money for college unless they start putting up real work and performance. |
I do a lot of interviews. You wouldn't believe the number of recent grads who can't even perform simple programming tasks like loop over a list or array. I've started hiring older people and career switchers. |
Fine by me. My parents paid for my education and my husband had tuition reimbursement through his job. People should have done tuition reimbursement, military or financial aid if they qualified to pay for college. |
That's wjat drag-and-drop programming and python libraries gets you. Bloated code and laziness. |
Scary that progressives were trying to get rid of standardized testing programs for law school, medical school and MBA programs. I guess math is racist //shrug// |
Fine by me. My parents paid for my education and my husband had tuition reimbursement through his job. People should have done tuition reimbursement, military or financial aid if they qualified to pay for college. |
This Same reason the test in for college system exists in every European and Asian countries. And is highly subsidized. Only those with the work ethic and intellectual horsepower get their higher ed paid for. There’s some skin in the game, but even your test results determine your major in Germany, France Turkey, Uk even has A levels at age 14, etc. |
I actually do believe it. I somehow ended up with /computerscience or the equivalent on reddit, and it is a huge number of kids complaining about being unemployable. We wrote an interpreter / compiler for Ruby in graduate school that ultimately ran code on the java virtual machine. I have confidence 80% or more of these "computer science" graduates do not even understand the principles behind the java virtual machine, and certainly would never be able to work with bytecode to run on it. |