Colleges Face a Reckoning: Is a Degree Necessary?
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The article examines the changing perception of the value of higher education, sparking discussion on whether a degree is still necessary for success, with commenters weighing in on the role of alternative education paths.
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First step might be to deal with the fact that the employment market generally isn't interested in taking a chance on folks without a degree / not interested in offering alternate paths.
More fundamentally higher ed faces the problem that people are having fewer children and trend is (i) getting worse all the time and (i) baked in from 20 years ago. Funny, college attendance lowers the birth rate
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3449224/
so the cycle perpetuates itself.