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Re:UK: Students could be prevented from taking university co... by Vanit on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:29PM (#28974409)
Ignoring the specifics in this case, I'm in favour of the govt requiring that the degrees available are viable for career progression. Speaking as someone from Australia, I see too many universities offering degrees that the target industries don't actually value as a credential, or the university itself has no post-grad academic path. If the degree can't lead to anything it shouldn't exist imo.

Many industries don't actually require a degree, just that you can "do the thing", and you're much better off doing a shorter course at some private outfit (provided it's actually good), or just skilling up online.

A big example that comes to mind is game dev, which is a borderline scam at uni. You're much better off doing comp sci or software eng, and then building a port folio in your own time then taking any course with "game" in the title.

An even bigger example is game design, which should be considered a senior role and not really a position where a path exists directly from any course.

Re:UK: Students could be prevented from taking university co... by ls15 on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:39PM (#28974471)
If mathematicians and other scientists throughout history had only worked on problems that have an industry use at their time, there would be no industry today.
Re:UK: Students could be prevented from taking university co... by Vanit on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:45PM (#28974494)
Good thing I was very clearly only addressing degrees with target industries then, and I did mention post-grad academics.
Re:UK: Students could be prevented from taking university co... by aurizon on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:49PM (#28974513)
Ah yes, that rara avis, a PhD in Coed Cooking.... You are quite correct, a degree should have an open ended ceiling. Technical competency diplomas exist among many parallel similar diplomas and quantify people to certain tasks
Re:UK: Students could be prevented from taking university co... by toaam on Saturday October 23, 2021 @11:21PM (#28974647)
Game dev/design edu space is still very young, therefore full of snake oil salesmen.