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VeeVees posted...

They definitely try to make you believe it's more important and useful than it really is.

isn't that how most for-profit businesses operate? Thats the problem with uni, it cares more about money than education, they will cut everything and anything if it means more profits. Of course strikes and protests happen across institutions, but does anything really ever change? And how long do these changes take to happen?

I learned a ton from uni, but nothing all that useful for life or work. Still, I don't completely regret it because a few of the profs I met are the most intelligent and progressive people I've ever met, unlike their bosses (department/faculty/uni administration - all 3 levels) and the "outside world". Some unis are ridiculous, in Canada for example the presidents across all main unis get paid more than our country's leader (prime minister). That kind of ludicrous salary proportion is comparable to CEO (and a quick google shows how almost everyone thinks CEO compensation is too high comparative to their employees). again, this is a sign of how unis are more business oriented than education oriented. What's worse is that most profs are temps/contract, so no benefits + they get paid very little for how many students they have to deal with. No wonder people complain about the quality of education, the non-tenure profs barely get paid more than a worker at mcdonalds, these people are only in it for the satisfaction of educating students (which is rewarding, sure, but not fairly compensated). Sometimes I think unis forget that education can happen without administration/a university, but it can't without the bottom line: profs who actually teach students, or at the very least guide them toward knowledge.
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