Higher Education : A Cause for Concern?
It is no secret that the requirements to gain entrance into a higher educational institutions is becoming stringent by the day and in a bid to get better education students often spend considerable time of their day trying to cram in studies to ensure they have the ideal scores.
Disappointment hits when students realize that sometime their best is just isn't good enough, specially when it come to the more competitive schools in which they seek admission. This often lead to a deterioration in their self confidence specially in a scenario where a student has applied to top schools and having been rejected by all of them, while the student's scores would still be deemed to be very good.
Obviously this high level of competition lead to rise of the number of students who have extremely good results which in turn means that universities and schools alike have to increase the admission requirements as there is only a limited number of places available. It is economics at its most fundamental form, as supply rises demand drops thus, the universities have to bring in tighter admission requirements.
In the UK a comparison between present time and that of 20-30 years ago reveals that today, half the graduates from universities graduate with a Second Class Upper as opposed to one third of students graduating with the same degree classification 20-30 years ago. Therefore, the value of a Second Class Upper Degree has dropped significantly. Employers and graduate schools alike have increased their requirements to include First class graduates, thus choosing to recruit the cream of the graduates.
Ultimately the grunt of this regulations leads to students spending more time studying rather than enjoying their student life. This is too much of pressure for students to handle, specially between the ever increasing cost of higher education and the pressure to ensure that their scores are in the higher echelons, causing students to spiral into depression and in some cases suicide.
There is a cost of educated, civilized society and it is no doubt that in order to advance as an able society education needs to be provided for but the bigger question is at what cost are we going to achieve this task? by creating students who resemble robots who are constantly glued to their books?
Disappointment hits when students realize that sometime their best is just isn't good enough, specially when it come to the more competitive schools in which they seek admission. This often lead to a deterioration in their self confidence specially in a scenario where a student has applied to top schools and having been rejected by all of them, while the student's scores would still be deemed to be very good.
Obviously this high level of competition lead to rise of the number of students who have extremely good results which in turn means that universities and schools alike have to increase the admission requirements as there is only a limited number of places available. It is economics at its most fundamental form, as supply rises demand drops thus, the universities have to bring in tighter admission requirements.
In the UK a comparison between present time and that of 20-30 years ago reveals that today, half the graduates from universities graduate with a Second Class Upper as opposed to one third of students graduating with the same degree classification 20-30 years ago. Therefore, the value of a Second Class Upper Degree has dropped significantly. Employers and graduate schools alike have increased their requirements to include First class graduates, thus choosing to recruit the cream of the graduates.
Ultimately the grunt of this regulations leads to students spending more time studying rather than enjoying their student life. This is too much of pressure for students to handle, specially between the ever increasing cost of higher education and the pressure to ensure that their scores are in the higher echelons, causing students to spiral into depression and in some cases suicide.
There is a cost of educated, civilized society and it is no doubt that in order to advance as an able society education needs to be provided for but the bigger question is at what cost are we going to achieve this task? by creating students who resemble robots who are constantly glued to their books?
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