Changed days!!In MY youth, only those who intended to enter one of the professions ... Medicine, Law, Clergy, Teaching, &c. ... went to University. [I might add, I wasn't one of them ... would LIKE to've been, but ... never had the "brains"!!
]. At that time ... circa early 1960s ... Scotland, for example, had only 4 such establishments - NOWADAYS, Colleges and other Higher Educational Institutions are sprouting-up all over the place. Why IS this?
Well, as I see it, there simply aren't enough jobs to go round!Gone is the need for human input ... which, over the course of the past half century, has given way to relentless advances in technology. Sad
but true. Employers these days no longer place the same emphasis on their office staff having a good grounding in basic skills that used to be referred to as the "3 R's" ... pronounced, Reading, (W)riting & (A)rithmetic ... all that seems to matter is that their staff have the ability to operate a computer. And the end result allows the brain to stagnate ... because all this automation in the workplace does away with employees' need to THINK to enable them to carry out their jobs effectively and efficiently.
All THIS, in turn, leads to soaring unemployment figures - hence the reason for setting up more and more colleges to deal with the ever-increasing number of school-leavers unable to find jobs. I don't know how well I've tried to explain myself here. But I hope it makes some sense to those who care to!
