"...Professors pretend to teach, students pretend to learn..."

[ucbalumnus]

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@sakky

That then just raises the question of why employers don’t do that right now, if my theory is so “daft”. Why can’t people today who have currently completed 97% of the degree approach employers and declare that since they ‘almost’ have a degree, they should be eligible to apply for whatever entry-level job they want?

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<p>How many people who have completed 97% of a bachelor’s degree do not actually complete the whole bachelor’s degree? Those who did not complete an intended bachelor’s degree probably stopped well short of 97%.</p>

<p>But if completing the first 97% were free and the last 3% cost $200,000 (as in your proposal, as opposed to the “pay as you go” system now), both students and employers would catch on to that fact, and there would be a lot more 97%-of-a-bachelor’s-degree people around that employers may be willing to hire.</p>

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@sakky

I do find it interesting that my detractors don’t seem to have a solution for that problem, or perhaps don’t even see it as a problem at all. Do you guys seriously want to defend the status quo? The status quo ain’t that great.

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<p>Just because someone does not like your proposed change does not mean that s/he likes the status quo, or has a simple sounding solution for the problems of the status quo.</p>