According to an article in The Atlantic from April of last year, 53% of new college grads are unemployed or under employed. This suggests that a degree does not hold the same value as it once did. Now, this isn't to say that all degrees are equal when it comes to finding work. One would be hard pressed to find a petroleum engineer in North America graduating without a six figure job offer, but the number of people getting a degree like that vs the number of those at Emily Carr preparing to ask me if I would like fries with that outweighs the engineers hands down.
Thus has led some to suggest that post secondary education, which is already subsidised for most students, should be cheaper or free, because everyone needs a degree. What ug we went the opposite way. Make everyone pay the full cost. Rather than $8,000 a year, charge the full $25,000 or whatever it may be. This would lower the number of students, and force those who remain to work harder for their degree. They may start looking at whether or not that degree can pay for itself. You would hopefully see less parents paying the full cost for their pampered little baby to go party for 5 or 6 years and see more students take personal responsibility for their own future.
Those degrees that are actually worth something probably wouldn't be effected too much. I didn't apply for all the scholarships I could have, and my tuition for 4 years (2 of which I was paying non-resident tuition) only cost me $1500 out of pocket because the free market values a mining engineering degree enough to pay tens of thousands of dollars to put me through college.
That's the problem with cities, they're refuges for the weak, the fish that didn't evolve.
I don't want to google this - sounds like a thing that NSMB will be better at.
