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Higher Education vs Commercial IT Learning
When he originally became Prime Minister, Tony Blair proudly stated his party’s big focus was “Education, Education, Education�. A worthy enough focus and definitely not something a person would immediately link to frustration and high personal debt. But over time, as more and more colleges have acquired university status, and student loans have become easily available to everyone, schools have encouraged a lot more young people to go for higher education without actually pointing out the cost.
There’s no question that we need a much more educated society, but is everyone actually getting the most appropriate advice? In reality; it isn’t a tricky sell to promote to a young adult to leave the family home and live with a bunch of friends, not worry about getting a job for three or four years and get discounted beer at the student union bar. A bit of a basic interpretation perhaps – inevitably there’s a bit of lectures to go to, and a careful balance to make ends meet, then the rewards will be worth it eventually. But is that true For a lot of families, the cost of university education lasts for many years after graduation, both socially and financially.
The student loan system (the best method of borrowing for students at university), tuition fees, lodgings and day to day living expenses over the time spent studying can set you back well over thirty grand – and still no guarantee of work. It’s ironic that intellectual adolescents too often become back-at-home twenty-somethings who haven’t even conquered their first job. Not only do mums and dads continue having to pay for everything, but unemployed adult children in the house again can obviously make things awkward!
A university education can be a great thing for young people, and is the only route for many of our professions. But advisors and families ought to know that in some disciplines, there are other, frequently more advanced alternatives. In the computer industry, employers are always searching for professionally qualified IT professionals. Only having a university degree means students often end up having to top up their computer training skills to be industry ready and have a chance in the job market with Microsoft, CompTIA or Cisco professionals. The sorry thing is they would have qualified two to three years earlier and not been burdened with a unmanageable debt had they gone straight to a global online computer training provider. Possibly drinking in the student union bar isn’t quite so cheap after all – it’s true the family bank account would be a lot less used up, and there’d likely be more seating left on the sofa!.
(C) Scott Edwards - www.learninglolly.com. Scott Edwards has been involved in the IT and Training Industry for 30 years.
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