Discounts for getting a useful degree.

[Adeptus_Minor]

It sounds like a great idea on the surface, but honestly, they could achieve better results by increasing incentives and promotion of trade schools rather than traditional universities.
Universities make thinkers, trade schools make doers.

[shmike]

The logic sounds good but a 3 year freeze is meaningless.

The reality is; once you are in school, the annual cost increases are negligible.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Adeptus_Minor

It sounds like a great idea on the surface, but honestly, they could achieve better results by increasing incentives and promotion of trade schools rather than traditional universities.
Universities make thinkers, trade schools make doers.

And you need hundreds of "doers" for every "thinker", but unfortunately every parent out there thinks that little Bobbie and Suzie are the pick of the litter, and will go far with the right education. Skilled trades are starving for people. Even back when I was in college I looked around the class and thought that more than half should have been in something like an apprenticeship programme instead.

[Adeptus_Minor]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

And you need hundreds of "doers" for every "thinker", but unfortunately every parent out there thinks that little Bobbie and Suzie are the pick of the litter, and will go far with the right education. Skilled trades are starving for people. Even back when I was in college I looked around the class and thought that more than half should have been in something like an apprenticeship programme instead.

Which, of course, brings us back to the Mike Rowe argument in which we all agree that we have to get rid of the stigma associated with blue collar jobs and training/apprenticeship in that direction. (yet it still hasn't happened)

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Adeptus_Minor

Which, of course, brings us back to the Mike Rowe argument in which we all agree that we have to get rid of the stigma associated with blue collar jobs and training/apprenticeship in that direction. (yet it still hasn't happened)

When I went into college, everyone was saying that electronics and computers were the way to go. You could write your own ticket. That worked for me because it's what I'd wanted to do since I was about 5 years old, unlike the vast majority of people in the programme.

When I came out, the job market had dried up. I was offered a machinist apprenticeship but turned it down because, by God, I'd gone to school for what I wanted to do and was going to do it. I'd have been better off going for the apprenticeship, given how long my career was stalled.