Education @ Employment Tie to Stop Buildup of Debt
Schools should not be allowed to enroll in fields they can not find full employment for their graduates within six months. Right now much of education is in featherbedding, meaning schools offer all kinds of fields in which not even 2% of their graduates can find jobs. This is done to create job guarantees for their own administrators, instructors and staff and not their students! Education with employment tie will solve this problem for the students of future. For the present debt problem, have graduates reenroll in new fields in which their schools guarantee them full time jobs, thus ability to pay back existing debt at very low interest rate and long term payback schedules. Please see my letter to Andrew Yang below:
Dear Andrew Yang,
You are the only political and business figure who understands Technical Education and Universal Basic Income connection to it, something which are so essential to transforming the United States into what it deserves to be. Without these two very basic foundations, the goal of improving American education and job market will remain only a mirage of good dreams. I hope your great values, technical focus, practicalities and experiences are taken notice of by President Elect Joe Biden. You are as important to him as is Vice President Elect Kamala Harris to him politically. I am a Career Technical Education Instructor of 23 years with experiences in California high school, community college, Regional Occupational Program and Adult Education. I will do anything to bring your visions of Technology Education and Universal Basic Income together in context of following existing concerns:
- Technical Education in America right now is 98% for the benefit of those who administer and teach in it and only 2% for the benefit of those who graduate from it. The reason for this gap is obvious but it is something which is deliberately and politically ignored. At the heart of this problem is the fact that there are almost no job openings for 98% of graduates of Technical Education, therefore it has become a perpetual machine for protecting its instructor jobs which are worked at very low wages and at expense of ignoring its graduates who receive no employment help.
- Your Universal Basic Income could be a solution to the first problem, as it would force Technical Education to produce entry level jobs for graduates and curtail offering programs which are not needed, and enhancing quality of education. Quality of education would mean differentiating between technical and academic education and provision of more training specialization and paid apprenticeship.
Copy: Biden-Harris Administration
From: cyruspak@sbcglobal.net
Cyrus Pakzad
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