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    #199766 09/02/14 06:34 AM
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    I'll be paying through the nose for this?

    Aspiring Adults Adrift
    By Jake New
    Inside Higher Education
    September 2, 2014

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    One in four of the students surveyed and interviewed for the book reported that they were living at home two years after graduation, a proportion that is nearly double than in the 1960s. More than half said their lives lacked direction. Seven percent reported being unemployed, 12 percent said they had part-time jobs, and 30 percent were working full-time but earning less than $30,000 a year. Half of those graduates were earning less than $20,000.

    College selectivity did not significantly affect the graduates' chances of employment, the authors write, and neither did gender, race or parental education.

    Field of study had little effect on the probability of whether a graduate was working an unskilled or skilled occupation two years after graduation -- except for students who studied engineering and computer science. While the probability of graduates who studied social sciences, humanities, science, math, and communication working an unskilled job hovered between 14 and 17 percent, the probability for graduates who studied engineering and computer science was just 4 percent.

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    Article failed to explore a significant contributor: helicoptering.


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    I also cannot help thinking that this a major factor:-

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    "Both students and the schools they attend exist in larger structural and cultural contexts that have created the conditions under which the observed learning outcomes occur," the authors write. "Widespread cultural commitment to consumer choice and individual rights, self-fulfillment and sociability, and well-being and a broader therapeutic ethic leave little room for students or schools to embrace programs that promote academic rigor."

    The trouble is that making a course rigorous means student reviews of the course will be lower which in turn incentivizes the 'professor' to keep things easy.

    Keeping things easy at university is akin to having unlimited ice cream on the menu at a residential weight loss centre, IMO.



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