Thursday, October 13, 2005
Your mom is impractical
Sometimes, getting a shot in at private corporations is more important than making sense.
The article appears to be about how graduate students get taught to be academics, and thus suck at non-academic stuff. But suddenly...
Part of the problem could be the rising cost of education as a possible reason for decreasing interest in public service, said Rob Schechtman, Graduate Assembly vice-president for academic affairs.
"Because the cost of education is increasing, students cannot afford to work in the public service sector. This is driving people away from public service sector and towards the corporate sector," Schechtman said.
This may shock folks, but the corporate sector consists of non-academic jobs. That is, grad students are being inadequately trained for those jobs as well, according to the article. Indeed, confusing the academia/non-academia distinction with the private/public distinction (in that order) seems downright backwards.
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