Why your university degree may be useless in the near future

Expensive education and the rapidly changing technological landscape are making traditional higher education system redundant
Have you ever wondered where your university degree will land you once you are done with school?

If you have had fears that it may lead to disappointment or make you work in a field that was not your speciality, then it is good to heed to the signs of the times and act accordingly.


While many people are toiling for years to just come out of school with a degree certification, it is possible that many of those will not have a job or they will be forced to doing something totally unrelated to what they studied.

In the current work world, many people are using their skills and not what they trained for.

With technological advancement and the reliance on Artificial Intelligence (AI), many children joining school now will work in jobs that do not yet exist.

While being in college is seen as an avenue to getting better in terms of social standing, financial independence and the assurance of a generally better life thereafter, the truth is that most students will just be piling on debt in terms of Educational loans for courses they may never reap from.

To show how important for consideration this is, Upwork CEO, Stephane Kasriel, says that “the future of work won’t be about college degrees, it will be about job skills.”

This underscores the need to revisit and evaluate degree choices and align them for the job market of the future.

In a survey commissioned by Upwork and Freelancers Union, skill training is most useful to the college-educated freelancers in what they are doing now than their college training.

Released on Wednesday, the survey Freelancing in America 2018, shows that 93 per cent of..... Read more Why your university degree may be useless in the near future

At the first bench

numbers never lie. but can not tell everything.

likewise
technology can make life easier. but can not solve every problem.

even the technology is put forward by education, so why denying the root. i.e. fetishism.

eliakeem said:

numbers never lie. but can not tell everything.

likewise
technology can make life easier. but can not solve every problem.

even the technology is put forward by education, so why denying the root. i.e. fetishism.

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Did you bother to read the article au umedandia kama ilivyo kawaida yenu, no one is disputing importance of education, the article is just enlightening on a new trend in job market where certifications achieved through traditional education are no longer considered enough, but skills acquired and competence accumulated is what will give you an advantage.
You must understand that skills are acquired through education, so definition of the word 'education' is multifaceted.
In my kind of consultancy, I operate in a very competitive field, cut-throat to say the least, constant skills enhancement, long nights of studies and research and self assessment and high motivation are the only efforts that can have you stay afloat.

A mere degree in my line of work is just some sort of madafu, sometimes I normally place an applicant academics as the last item in the checklist when interviewing people for a job, that way, I end up with the best candidates with the right aptitude.

Kenya has embarked on a new model of education, my youngest son is part of it, this new curriculum has been constructed with the aim of churning out an army of competent youths who can compete in the rapidly changing world standards.

MK254 said:

Did you bother to read the article au umedandia kama ilivyo kawaida yenu, no one is disputing importance of education, the article is just enlightening on a new trend in job market where certifications achieved through traditional education are no longer considered enough, but skills acquired and competence accumulated is what will give you an advantage.
You must understand that skills are acquired through education, so definition of the word 'education' is multifaceted.
In my kind of consultancy, I operate in a very competitive field, cut-throat to say the least, constant skills enhancement, long nights of studies and research and self assessment and high motivation are the only efforts that can have you stay afloat.

A mere degree in my line of work is just some sort of madafu, sometimes I normally place an applicant academics as the last item in the checklist when interviewing people for a job, that way, I end up with the best candidates with the right aptitude.

Kenya has embarked on a new model of education, my youngest son is part of it, this new curriculum has been constructed with the aim of churning out an army of competent youths who can compete in the rapidly changing world standards.

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Nothing strange you have explained, certificates are just the proofs if you real have mastered the field or expertise. We still need the tertialy level of education for our people. This is where researches and innovation comes from. There is no way we can go without this level of knowledge. However, we can borrow a leaf or two from chinese technics. In china, when people talk about skilled labour, they are not refering to graduates from tertially institute of education. But they refer to the middle (education) carder graduates acquired skills in their opus magnum such as bricks making, embroidery, builders, welders, metal fitters, tailors etc. In china most of exported goods are not manufactured by the big/heavy industries. But the small ones. This's why our Tanzanian Minister for Industry mentioned about having an industry with 5 - 10 sewing machines can be termed as an industry. But most of people loughed at him. Yes, they loughed, because they don't have an understanding of chinese industry model. China has a well stipulated policy on trade and vocational schools to help their youths to be self employed (refer the China: 2017 Year Book). This policy helped much the chinese to curb the problem of youth unemployment. This is well powered by their well structured export credit policy which needs the export credit agencies to support the big companies to secure tender abroad on condition that all materials will come from china and the small industries will be given a big share of those materials needed by big firms which execute tender in abroad.
Actually this is the way the African countries have to go in order to curb the challenge of youth unemployment.
I remain.

eliakeem said:

Nothing strange you have explained, certificates are just the proofs if you real have mastered the field or expertise. We still need the tertialy level of education for our people. This is where researches and innovation comes from. There is no way we can go without this level of knowledge. However, we can borrow a leaf or two from chinese technics. In china, when people talk about skilled labour, they are not refering to graduates from tertially institute of education. But they refer to the middle (education) carder graduates acquired skills in their opus magnum such as bricks making, embroidery, builders, welders, metal fitters, tailors etc. In china most of exported goods are not manufactured by the big/heavy industries. But the small ones. This's why our Tanzanian Minister for Industry mentioned about having an industry with 5 - 10 sewing machines can be termed as an industry. But most of people loughed at him. Yes, they loughed, because they don't have an understanding of chinese industry model. China has a well stipulated policy on trade and vocational schools to help their youths to be self employed (refer the China: 2017 Year Book). This policy helped mch the chinese to curb the problem of youth unemployment. This is well powered by their well structured export credit policy which needs the export credit agencies to support the big companies to secure tender abroad on condition that all materials will come from china and the small industries will be given a big share of those materials needed by big firms which execute tender in abroad.
Actually this is the way the African countries have to go in order to curb the challenge of youth unemployment.
I remain.

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Brvo

MK254 said:

Did you bother to read the article au umedandia kama ilivyo kawaida yenu, no one is disputing importance of education, the article is just enlightening on a new trend in job market where certifications achieved through traditional education are no longer considered enough, but skills acquired and competence accumulated is what will give you an advantage.
You must understand that skills are acquired through education, so definition of the word 'education' is multifaceted.
In my kind of consultancy, I operate in a very competitive field, cut-throat to say the least, constant skills enhancement, long nights of studies and research and self assessment and high motivation are the only efforts that can have you stay afloat.

A mere degree in my line of work is just some sort of madafu, sometimes I normally place an applicant academics as the last item in the checklist when interviewing people for a job, that way, I end up with the best candidates with the right aptitude.

Kenya has embarked on a new model of education, my youngest son is part of it, this new curriculum has been constructed with the aim of churning out an army of competent youths who can compete in the rapidly changing world standards.

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Tanzania noted this problem from the very early period of independence. That is why it adopted the system of "Education For Self Reliance". I wonder that it is now when Kenya starts realising this problem. My advice" it is Sometimes good to peep in what good your neighbour is doing.