Posted on an essay in The Conversation:
What Australia has right: the TAFE system is great for employment preparation. Except due to their clout, potential employees are required to first get a certificate in hand washing. Does this mean that "higher education" is totally an elitist institution for those who can get paid all their lives to just sit around and shoot the shit (excuse me; pontificate on the greater questions of life)?
The US has swung to the opposite extreme - promoting the notion that one should acquire a bachelors in handwashing. This means that the vast majority of bachelor graduates in the US are barely qualified to wash their hands, while Australian institutions are graduating bureaucrats who don't think their hands ever need washing.
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