This seems like a superficial analysis to me. Universities are certainly out of date with their market, but they aren’t doomed. Social skills, and a vast other range of skills can’t be taught quickly that I have seen. You really need to have stable long-term relationships to get some of the finer aspects of things like teamwork and responsibility tested and blossom.

I believe that universities, in their current form, are doomed due to a combination of internal problems and externalities. Here is a short list of these issues: 1. In most western countries- universities are now used to ‘house’ youth in the same way that prisons are used to ‘house’ black men in the USA. 2. In countries like the USA and other Anglo-Saxon countries, the students are expected to pay for the privilege of being ‘housed’ in these plac … Read More

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