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China’s universities cut 12,000 ‘obsolete’ degrees amid race to embrace AI era (www.scmp.com)
submitted 7 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Good thing students don't go to school to learn things. They might be missing out on something of they were. (/s)

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Hopefully it's different from other fields, but my degree in Information Technology was useless except for getting interviews.

Basically the only practical knowledge I left with was a few new linux commands.

Now my associates degree, on the other hand, was based on certification coursework. The textbooks were the official cert books.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Sounds like you went to one of the schools in the article. If they treat their degrees as measly job door stops, then of course they aren't gonna give a shit if the students actually learn anything. With an actual education, it won't matter if "ai" destroys the applicable career because the student actually learned what they paid to learn.

And, if all the doomsaying about chatbots were actually true, no job is safe anyhow and going to a school like this is just fucking yourself twice over. Study for yourself, not for the piece of paper you get at the end.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 hours ago

Paywall. What is visible indicates cuts to arts and languages degrees.

[–] sanitation@lemmy.today -3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

One thing really cool about US is online colleges. Who chooses to go to brick and mortar anymore? It's so dumb. Online is much cheaper and flexible. Get cs from wgu very quickly