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<blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 6273653" data-attributes="member: 509"><p>Isn't that just the general devaluation of degrees in western society?</p><p></p><p>It also used to be an accomplishment to graduate "high school" here, giving you a considerable edge in the job market (and life in general). With rising prosperity, by the mid-70s pretty much everyone graduated high school, so having graduated high school became the new default and thus wasn't really valued any more, resulting in the bachelor degree becoming the new high school diploma. Today, most people go to university and pretty much everyone gets a bachelor degree (or equivalent), resulting in the current devaluation of the bachelor degree and a general push for everyone to finish a masters degree. </p><p></p><p>This results in an increasingly better educated society, but also creates a somewhat apathetic attitude towards that same education, because it all feels somewhat arbitrary--a lot of work for a stamp of societal approval that's losing value as you earn it.</p><p></p><p>And you can already see the same thing happening (rapidly) in Eastern Europe and other "up-and-coming" countries. It's a sign of prosperity.</p><p></p><p>*shrug* </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As has already been pointed out by [MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION], the US has plenty of those. I mean, what High School drama doesn't mention the SATs?</p><p></p><p>But the trend in international education is to move away from centralized grading. In Iceland, we used to have similar centralized tests (I took them), but we disbanded them a few years ago (because current thought is that while it makes it easier for the government and schools to evaluate students, it leads to worse education).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Viking Bastard, post: 6273653, member: 509"] Isn't that just the general devaluation of degrees in western society? It also used to be an accomplishment to graduate "high school" here, giving you a considerable edge in the job market (and life in general). With rising prosperity, by the mid-70s pretty much everyone graduated high school, so having graduated high school became the new default and thus wasn't really valued any more, resulting in the bachelor degree becoming the new high school diploma. Today, most people go to university and pretty much everyone gets a bachelor degree (or equivalent), resulting in the current devaluation of the bachelor degree and a general push for everyone to finish a masters degree. This results in an increasingly better educated society, but also creates a somewhat apathetic attitude towards that same education, because it all feels somewhat arbitrary--a lot of work for a stamp of societal approval that's losing value as you earn it. And you can already see the same thing happening (rapidly) in Eastern Europe and other "up-and-coming" countries. It's a sign of prosperity. *shrug* As has already been pointed out by [MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION], the US has plenty of those. I mean, what High School drama doesn't mention the SATs? But the trend in international education is to move away from centralized grading. In Iceland, we used to have similar centralized tests (I took them), but we disbanded them a few years ago (because current thought is that while it makes it easier for the government and schools to evaluate students, it leads to worse education). [/QUOTE]
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