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Re:Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher ed... by dragonwriter on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:30PM (#27866906)
> In Denmark and some neighboring countries there's this concept of a school you can go to just to learn stuff later in life, as an ongoing thing

We have those in the US; we don't have a general collective name for them, but there are both private for-profit ones with a variety of (mostly narrow) specialities, either standalone or as adjuncts to other related businesses (selling, e.g., products in the field that it teaches people to act in), plus community colleges, public libraries, public parks and rec departments, and museums tend to also have programs that serve this function, despite it not being their sole or primary function.

Re:Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher ed... by techsupporter on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:54PM (#27867066)
My whole life, I've heard of those places as either "FunEd" or "The Learning Annex" and I didn't realize until well into adulthood that those were proper nouns, not the generic name for "classes you take as a grownup just for interest."