As a child, i had the perception of going to school so i could get good grades in my external exams, go to the university, come out with better grades and get a good job. Well, this is a good idea to go to the University and get a job after your years in the citadel of learning, depending the course of study. I remember the days when i was out of high school and was waiting for my admission into the University, i looked like a complete outcast with a lot of Fomo because my friends were already in the University and i was at home expecting a list and an admission letter. The way people looked at me when walking through the street was very disgusting. people saw me as someone who didn't have a focus and didn't know what he wanted, my parents made it worse by giving me 101 reason why me not going to the University makes me a failure.
Tertiary Education is a Product
Either going to study a professional course (medicine, law) or study a non-professional course, you are going to the university to give something for something. In my country and in several countries in the world, University education isn't free so it is regarded as a buying and selling market where students pay for degrees. Either private or public, a tertiary institution is a business ground owned by either an individual or the government who in turn sells degrees as consumer products to its consumers (students).
In the past, Universities were meant to impact into students and its funding was done with taxpayers money not until people were told to pay for what they bought, so people started paying tuitions for learning and this became a business ground. Why will someone come to pay to learn so they can be better persons in life and get good jobs only to end up paying up their student loans in 10 years after leaving the four walls of the tertiary institution?
Let us look at demand and supply, for every scarce commodity, there is a high demand but when the commodity is in high supply, the market becomes saturated and the price drops. Let's bring this into the courses we go to learn in tertiary institution. In my days as a university student, there were over 400 students in the same year, studying the same course in my department and so were they an average of 400 students studying the same course that sae year in over 100 tertiary institutions nationwide, for every year, there are always students who would graduate from institutions studying the same course. This is where my concern comes in; what is the value placed on a large number of people who studied the same course just to saturate an industry?
Giving you a course which is not your choice
In my country, getting an admission into a tertiary institution requires you to write the course you want to study, but most cases, even after scaling through the cut-off mark, you are left to take whatever is given by the institution, and since there is a pressure to get into the institution, student just jump on anything and everything given to them.
A lot of student had a different career goal while in high school but as they were going into an higher institution, the schools give them a different career to pursue because the course of study changed.
Hello @gbenga
Education can be a big business, the masses of population are created to follow a pattern, and in study it is no different.
Greetings @gbenga.
Great article you bring to us in this opportunity, I believe that all of us in one way or another go through that situation where the influence of an economically attractive career in the future attracts us.
I enjoyed your article very much and thank you for sharing it with all of us.
Hello friend, well I consider that educating us is important, but it does not stop benefiting others. On the other hand, I do not criticize those who decide not to do it, there are successful people who did not have to practice a career to achieve what they wanted.
Good article, remember that the careers in the universities are governed by a curriculum and this does not vary much from the creation of the career no matter what the economy changes.
Very good article friend. In many countries university education instead of being a right has become a lucrative service, and as you say, many young people end up being influenced to choose something they don't like, so the labor market is saturated, which ends up being even more expensive.
Interesting post, @gbenga.
Education remains the best plan for those who are poor to be able to grow and become "someone" in life, but here in Brazil, the diploma is not as essential as it was a few years ago.
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