[Leica] declining quality now why are these illiterates evenadmitted to college

[Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)]

Len,
I agree with you. I am in the UK. I believe the education "industry" is 
the most important industry of all. It prepares the most important 
resource the country has, its people.
I take issue, however, with the view that more and more people should 
have a University education.
Our government seems to have a target of 40% of the population having a 
University education, in the '50s it was around 5% I believe. Since the 
average intelligence of the population has not much changed this 
results in a dumbing down of entry requirements, course content and 
eventual Graduate capability. The degree has less value. The education 
requirements of job seekers has changed over the period but not enough 
to prevent people today, who have a degree, doing exactly the same job 
that they would have done in the past without a degree and on the same 
pay. This results in massive financial hardship for young people.
I could go on....
Frank

On 27 Jun, 2004, at 00:44, Leonard J Kapner wrote:

> Sorry for the intrusion, but this whole issue makes me see red.
>
> When academic administrators are rewarded for managing to a set of 
> numbers
> rather than to the independently inspected quality of their product, 
> we get
> this kind of "felgerkarb" result.
>
> Higher education is the only industry in America (other than politics 
> and
> used car sales) that flourishes, despite the almost universal 
> condemnation
> of the quality of their contribution to the nation's economy.
>
> What is wrong with us??
>
> Maybe I'm just wearing a red filter today...
>
> Len