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It didn't used to matter where you went, if you went to a University, if you went to Polytechnics... They all were considered 'equal' in some way, with the exception of clearly superior schools, like University of Helsinki.
Now I do mean between these schools of same level. These days, Polytechnics are going to be University of Applied Science. WTF?? Why confuse the situation, they aren't universities, not even by definition, since they don't have reseach projects going on, period.
So what does it matter you might ask. Why are you being so sensitive, are you afraid that people from Polytechnics are competing with the same jobs? No, that's not the problem. The set of skills isn't defined by what school that person went. Idiots are everywhere, even in Universities.
But it does give some kind of inflation to University studies when we start to blur the lines, since the level of education in these so called University of applied science-places hasn't risen. Seems they have actually gone a bit lower.
The official goal is to have 70% of our people with higher education. I don't understand what purpose this goal serves. But it guarantees one thing, it guarantees the inflation of education, it guarantees lower salaries for highly educated people, it guarantees overall worsening results for people with 'high education'.
Because the standards are not the same, and it seems to me we are ready to lower them to get to the goal. As a direct result, we shall have tons and tons of people with nice titles, yet their set of skills is the same as when we had 20% higher educated people. As a direct result, what I feel is worse personally for me, is that since every school seems to be a university now (even though they aren't), our reputation in the world will not get better, but the opposite. When enough of these new masters of camoflague go into the world to spread the gospel of fast food degrees, they can't tell the difference anymore in there either. They will just figure, that university students in Finland are **** and that there is no guarantees of any kind that there is even potential.
What makes it impossible to fight is that of course now that everyone gets into those schools if they bother to apply is that they start being the majority, thus there's no chance in hell we will ever have this situation changed.
Let me make it clear, the quality and set of skills remains the same, yet we suddenly have all kinds of title holders who are 'equivalent' of those who applied to real university and passed it and basically are real M.Sc's and what not.
Yes, there will be same amount of those who also have the set of skills for sure. But the title holding is leading us all to the ditch at the end, and if I land on top, I will pound everyone with my fists, because I'm cool like that.
None of this makes any sense. Why do we need 70% of our people to be highly educated? The simple fact is, we don't have 70% of people who are qualified for it, who have the .. requirements for it. So we just lower the requirements. What goal does this serve, it just blows a truckload of kaka into everyone elses faces.
It didn't used to matter where you went, if you went to a University, if you went to Polytechnics... They all were considered 'equal' in some way, with the exception of clearly superior schools, like University of Helsinki.
Now I do mean between these schools of same level. These days, Polytechnics are going to be University of Applied Science. WTF?? Why confuse the situation, they aren't universities, not even by definition, since they don't have reseach projects going on, period.
So what does it matter you might ask. Why are you being so sensitive, are you afraid that people from Polytechnics are competing with the same jobs? No, that's not the problem. The set of skills isn't defined by what school that person went. Idiots are everywhere, even in Universities.
But it does give some kind of inflation to University studies when we start to blur the lines, since the level of education in these so called University of applied science-places hasn't risen. Seems they have actually gone a bit lower.
The official goal is to have 70% of our people with higher education. I don't understand what purpose this goal serves. But it guarantees one thing, it guarantees the inflation of education, it guarantees lower salaries for highly educated people, it guarantees overall worsening results for people with 'high education'.
Because the standards are not the same, and it seems to me we are ready to lower them to get to the goal. As a direct result, we shall have tons and tons of people with nice titles, yet their set of skills is the same as when we had 20% higher educated people. As a direct result, what I feel is worse personally for me, is that since every school seems to be a university now (even though they aren't), our reputation in the world will not get better, but the opposite. When enough of these new masters of camoflague go into the world to spread the gospel of fast food degrees, they can't tell the difference anymore in there either. They will just figure, that university students in Finland are **** and that there is no guarantees of any kind that there is even potential.
What makes it impossible to fight is that of course now that everyone gets into those schools if they bother to apply is that they start being the majority, thus there's no chance in hell we will ever have this situation changed.
Let me make it clear, the quality and set of skills remains the same, yet we suddenly have all kinds of title holders who are 'equivalent' of those who applied to real university and passed it and basically are real M.Sc's and what not.
Yes, there will be same amount of those who also have the set of skills for sure. But the title holding is leading us all to the ditch at the end, and if I land on top, I will pound everyone with my fists, because I'm cool like that.
None of this makes any sense. Why do we need 70% of our people to be highly educated? The simple fact is, we don't have 70% of people who are qualified for it, who have the .. requirements for it. So we just lower the requirements. What goal does this serve, it just blows a truckload of kaka into everyone elses faces.
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