11-26-2007, 03:45 AM
I don't see this the way you described it.
I know that education is an industry and it is competitive.
Businesses pay for marketing, advertisement and referrals.
History shows that RA or even better RA + PA from decent school has the most value specially if licensing or board certification is the goal.
So I'm of the opinion that if their agenda is to promote something that is good and I would recommend to my children then I have no issue with that.
This works bout ways, I think people get ripped off by schools that later turn to be not that good and the credential marginal with limitations. At the same time public is better protected from the sub standard schools.
Here is where I deffer with some of them, I think that the range of schools can exist, all the way from Yale and Harvard, Cambridge to state licensed schools as long as real education is provided or real assessment or examinations for work and other learning experiences take place.
Now I can see at time turf wars and one group trying to run out competition but the consumer can and is dictating. This is why so many real B&M schools offer DL capitalizing on Internet and other technologies, this is market driven.
In many countries there is more or less uniform system and the student has less to worry when it comes to education providers, in US its very diverse. Many countries have national Standard for diplomas and this way if a person has this kind of credential it is legally accepted for all types of jobs etc. This makes the need for researching a school much lower than in USA where you must research every school, their types of accreditation, State laws about the Licensing if the school degree be accepted for the exams etc.
Mobility between the states, tier, are they going to be around next year, graduate school acceptance etc.
I know persons who earned degrees with ITT and later go disappointed with their limitation to continue in RA school for further higher degree.
When a person earned State Format diploma in France or Russia every one knows that minimum state requirements are followed and the person studied the appropriate curriculum with appropriate level of teachers etc. All Grad schools for higher degree accept such degrees.
But some bureaucrats at times their goal is to create a problem so they can come in with legislation and solve it.
Experiential schools have little or no freedom and the legislation makes their degrees illegal.
I know that education is an industry and it is competitive.
Businesses pay for marketing, advertisement and referrals.
History shows that RA or even better RA + PA from decent school has the most value specially if licensing or board certification is the goal.
So I'm of the opinion that if their agenda is to promote something that is good and I would recommend to my children then I have no issue with that.
This works bout ways, I think people get ripped off by schools that later turn to be not that good and the credential marginal with limitations. At the same time public is better protected from the sub standard schools.
Here is where I deffer with some of them, I think that the range of schools can exist, all the way from Yale and Harvard, Cambridge to state licensed schools as long as real education is provided or real assessment or examinations for work and other learning experiences take place.
Now I can see at time turf wars and one group trying to run out competition but the consumer can and is dictating. This is why so many real B&M schools offer DL capitalizing on Internet and other technologies, this is market driven.
In many countries there is more or less uniform system and the student has less to worry when it comes to education providers, in US its very diverse. Many countries have national Standard for diplomas and this way if a person has this kind of credential it is legally accepted for all types of jobs etc. This makes the need for researching a school much lower than in USA where you must research every school, their types of accreditation, State laws about the Licensing if the school degree be accepted for the exams etc.
Mobility between the states, tier, are they going to be around next year, graduate school acceptance etc.
I know persons who earned degrees with ITT and later go disappointed with their limitation to continue in RA school for further higher degree.
When a person earned State Format diploma in France or Russia every one knows that minimum state requirements are followed and the person studied the appropriate curriculum with appropriate level of teachers etc. All Grad schools for higher degree accept such degrees.
But some bureaucrats at times their goal is to create a problem so they can come in with legislation and solve it.
Experiential schools have little or no freedom and the legislation makes their degrees illegal.