A skillset, beats, that higher education degree, as always! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The collective skills exams of the community college technical skills ended yesterday, what’s worth noting was, other than the number of test takers are reduced by the year which showed, how there are less and less willing to, work in the manual labor. And, toward the need for technical staff members in the industries of Taiwan, if this trend continues, there would be, a lack of skilled persons in the fields, which worries me about the competitive edge of Taiwan, in comparison with the rest of the world.
Naturally, everybody attributed the number of test takers on the decline to the reduction of birthrate, but, it’s not hard to conclude, that the real reason is from the increased number of colleges being set up. Because of how the government is setting up the universities all over the island, it’d caused the graduates from technical high school start enrolling in the normal universities, and, because of how the doors to the normal universities opened up wide, making the college degrees, worth a whole lot less. And, for the long run, the results of this,, is how those who had certain majors in their college careers, can’t put what they’d learned in class to good use.
From before, the universities focused on theory, and the technical universities trained the students in the skillsets, the two worked hand-in-hand. Due to the demands of the industries, the setting up of requirements of hire is, also, different, and, both the industries and the workers were able to find the work and worker they’d needed. And now, as a results of too many college graduates are out every year, the recruits of the smaller, mid-sized enterprises’ workers, not only were there an uneven quality of workers, there are many of whom couldn’t, fulfill the duties of their jobs, and so, the wages are lowered, causing the problems from before, of college graduates receiving $22,000N.T. per month, the industries treating the graduates as high school part-timers, the master’s holders getting paid at the rates of college graduates, and the like.
And because of it, the government should start, setting up the exit programs of the colleges and universities, to replace and do away with some of the not-high-enough universities, to merge more of the universities together, so the university are more complete, to reduce the costs, and increase that competitive edge. In the end, we would be able to, eliminate the lower quality of education, and only keeping the higher quality schools onboard.
Comparing to the normal colleges and universities, the technical colleges only need to teach the students how to apply the skill set they learned, to help them increase their own sources of income. To give the original quality of the college degrees back, to return the quality of college education to its, original, higher standards.
The students, as well as the parents both, need to select the means of education carefully too, to NOT just chase the trends, to fight to get into the schools that aren’t fitting for oneself. After all, we know ourselves, best, being able to become outstanding in one’s own future jobs, is way more important, than receiving that higher education degree from a prestigious university.
And so, this, busted the myth of, going to a good school, after all, it’s NOT the degree, it’s WHAT’s learned, the skill sets, and how you can apply what you’d learned in the lecture halls to outside the classroom, to your daily lives, that’s more important, so, stop chasing those highly acclaimed Ivy League school education like crazy, there are a ton of people who were successful, who never, graduated from those Ivy Leagues you know??? Some of who were, dropouts too!
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