“Under plans due to be announced later, universities in England will be forced to limit the number of students they recruit onto underperforming courses.”
The governments criteria for an underperforming course is one whose students don’t go on to earn enough money to pay the debt they accrue. Unfortunately the same government has said don’t go asking for pay rises because it will wreak the economy.
When you put it that way it starts to sound like the start of a conspiracy to dumb down the population which makes for more Tory voters…
Going to university is far more than getting a qualification. It’s part of enabling young people to develop as people intellectually and socially. This is something that the Tories don’t understand. They want to monetise everything. Including the interests and aspirations of people. Tories have wrecked primary and secondary education and now want to finish off post-compulsory learning. They really are below vermin.
Reminds me of this, from a few years back.
Brilliant. Captures that money-obsessed mindset perfectly.
If you judge your degrees by how much people make after finishing, you’re going to have a bad time. And lots of MBA graduates.
shudderGetting people qualified in things should be seen at a country level, and being able to support people reading subjects that don’t directly link to service is the sign of a prosperous country, imho.
It’s become a bit chicken-and-egg, sadly. A degree-style course might not be the best way to teach a subject, but employers like the certification that you dedicated yourself for 2+years, so it has to be.
And this seems to be one of the results of that.An MBA is a post-graduate degree.
Does this mean nearly all arts degrees will be eliminated because the graduates don’t earn much money? What a sad stage of affairs. I didn’t realise the point of having an education is to make as much money as possible.
Lots of people with arts degrees earn good money.
