UK: Students could be prevented from taking university courses deemed low value(inews.co.uk)
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UK: Students could be prevented from taking university courses deemed low value
https://inews.co.uk/news/education/students-places-university-courses-plans-cap-numbers-low-value-degrees-1116908
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Ah yes, that rara avis, a PhD in Coed Cooking....
You are quite correct, a degree should have an open ended ceiling. Technical competency diplomas exist among many parallel similar diplomas and quantify people to certain tasks
Game dev/design edu space is still very young, therefore full of snake oil salesmen.
Jobs famously spoke about how sitting in on a calligraphy class led to the typography innovations on the Mac.
It's hard to quantify the peripheral value of courses like those offered in the arts and humanities.
I'm very STEM-oriented, but I feel there's value in these courses that don't directly pay off in the free market.
It's hard to quantify the peripheral value of courses like those offered in the arts and humanities.
I'm very STEM-oriented, but I feel there's value in these courses that don't directly pay off in the free market.
I don’t know what is being proposed, but admittedly the Uk is littered with awful universities offering variations on “media studies”, which at best offer a government-subsidised lifestyle to some students for a few years, and at worst are visa scams (pay to join, you’ll get a student visa).
But of course they might mean “what use is psychology to a corporate automaton anyway”.
But of course they might mean “what use is psychology to a corporate automaton anyway”.
I think about this all the time. The combining of seemingly unrelated skills brings new perspectives and it helps people go from being cogs to creators.
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The Government should only have a say in what someone studies if they're paying for it, and even then it's debatable.
They need to address tuition fees before anything else.
They need to address tuition fees before anything else.
I believe the U.K. government is the guarantor on all student loans in the country.
If so, it could be argued it’s legitimate for them to only offer loans based on courses that offer the taxpayer a return on their investment.
If so, it could be argued it’s legitimate for them to only offer loans based on courses that offer the taxpayer a return on their investment.
Many industries don't actually require a degree, just that you can "do the thing", and you're much better off doing a shorter course at some private outfit (provided it's actually good), or just skilling up online.
A big example that comes to mind is game dev, which is a borderline scam at uni. You're much better off doing comp sci or software eng, and then building a port folio in your own time then taking any course with "game" in the title.
An even bigger example is game design, which should be considered a senior role and not really a position where a path exists directly from any course.