07-30-2012, 03:08 PM
There was an excellent thread some time ago about the effect the 'new' for profit Universities have had on students, and how many of these scam artists push students into maxing out their student loans, knowing full well that the students may not get anything worthwhile out of the 'education'.
There's also a whole subset of 'vocational training' predatory 'schools' established specifically to suck money out of various governmental training programs for the unemployed.
Of course some of these programs ARE quite good, and most of the intructors are quite earnest and principled people. But the machinery behind the instructional face can be quite crooked.
YMMV, etc...
My kids go to local community colleges and then onward to state Universities. I was the product of a private University, but one with over a hundred years of existence and a stellar repution (at the time one of the top 10 engineering schools in the US).
There's also a whole subset of 'vocational training' predatory 'schools' established specifically to suck money out of various governmental training programs for the unemployed.
Of course some of these programs ARE quite good, and most of the intructors are quite earnest and principled people. But the machinery behind the instructional face can be quite crooked.
YMMV, etc...
My kids go to local community colleges and then onward to state Universities. I was the product of a private University, but one with over a hundred years of existence and a stellar repution (at the time one of the top 10 engineering schools in the US).