[ExI] Greener Urban Environment

[William Flynn Wallace]

Dave wrote:Traditional higher education controls the granting of degrees
and they won't be keen on putting themselves out of business.

What is needed are competent psychometricians.  The process:  develop tests
to determine which of those that are hired and do well do well on the
tests.  Simple.  Then you don't need degrees and such.  You need to be able
to pass such a test. Like the bar exam.   Traditional interviews, reliance
on degrees and recommendations, are old hat - very old.  Not very valid.
Proven many times.

Traditional colleges and such will disappear.  Right now the administrative
costs are just enormous and unwarranted.  Parkinson's Law.

bill w



On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 11:20 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> We are still missing one big ingredient before this paradigm completely
>> dominates college level education: getting laid.  OK two big ingredients: a
>> uniform objective system for credentials, a degree equivalent system
>> perhaps, one that covers both those who go the traditional route of
>> education and those who use the online resources, as well as those who do
>> both the online education and get laid.  The person or company which
>> successfully figures out how to do a useful and universal credential system
>> will make a cubic buttload of money.  Oh it makes ya hurt just thinking
>> about all the filthy lucre to be made here, ooooh a good hurt it is.
>>
>>
>>
>> Suggestions please?
>>
>
> Traditional higher education controls the granting of degrees and they
> won't be keen on putting themselves out of business.
>
> I think we'll need some kind of skills testing system like the
> certifications used in the IT field. E.g., Red Hat's Certification program:
>
>   https://www.redhat.com/en/services/certification
>
> If you hire a Red Hat Certified Engineer, you know you're getting someone
> who can manage your RH servers. If you hire someone with a BS in Computer
> Science you don't know that.
>
> -Dave
>
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