Re:California bans ITT tech from accepting new students
by dmix on Monday August 29, 2016 @10:46PM
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Besides the financial issues that these companies created, the main issue is the quality of teachers.
There are so so many of these colleges that the pool of quality teachers are almost all going to be in universities.
I took a business course for a year and all of the teachers were at most middle managers, marketing managers, or long retired company-men from IBM or other big corps.
They all just read off of powerpoint slides and rarely provided any valuable insight on their own, by design.
Mostly just a sea of mediocrity by people who were well intentioned but never made it far in industry so they got an easy job that's likely personally rewarding but not exceptionally valuable to the students vs reading a few books or any level of experience on the job.
And besides 50% of my class was Chinese kids who paid 5x as much as me in tuition to be there and had a poor grasp of English. These kids were the real target market. So quality wasn't necessarily the goal. Just filling seats and offices.
There are so so many of these colleges that the pool of quality teachers are almost all going to be in universities.
I took a business course for a year and all of the teachers were at most middle managers, marketing managers, or long retired company-men from IBM or other big corps.
They all just read off of powerpoint slides and rarely provided any valuable insight on their own, by design.
Mostly just a sea of mediocrity by people who were well intentioned but never made it far in industry so they got an easy job that's likely personally rewarding but not exceptionally valuable to the students vs reading a few books or any level of experience on the job.
And besides 50% of my class was Chinese kids who paid 5x as much as me in tuition to be there and had a poor grasp of English. These kids were the real target market. So quality wasn't necessarily the goal. Just filling seats and offices.