Yahoo! News is running an article today from TIME titled College Degrees More Expensive, Worth Less in Job Market. It begins:
Employers and career experts see a growing problem in American society – an abundance of college graduates, many burdened with tuition-loan debt, heading into the work world with a degree that doesn’t mean much anymore.
The problem isn’t just a soft job market – it’s an oversupply of graduates. In 1973, a bachelor’s degree was more of a rarity, since just 47% of high school graduates went on to college. By October 2008, that number had risen to nearly 70%. . . .
Compare these heavily indebted diploma carriers with people their age qualifying for future looking jobs by taking corporate online tutorials and certification, at for example Apple or Microsoft or for careers like selling real estate. The “college graduate” ideal needs badly to be readjusted to and integrated with the practicalities and economies of learning and getting certified online.
December 11th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Online/brick-and-mortar hybrid programs are going to become a lot more popular at first. The brick-and-mortar part is going to be teaching the aspects of creativity and discussion; but the online part is going to going to be for dealing with the technical lectures and factual material.
It’s going to be an interesting time.