https://www.scmp.com/rss/319319/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Are universities selling people a bill of goods? Are they engaged in false advertising? If your answer is "Of course not!", this is for you. Students go to university mainly because it promises to teach them something that will give them the necessary qualifications for interesting and desirable jobs. For some jobs, this is really true. For example, one cannot become a doctor without studying medicine nor go into bridge construction without studying civil engineering. But there are many areas of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1812210/universities-should-stop-promising-education-they-cannot?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1812210/universities-should-stop-promising-education-they-cannot?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 May 2015 09:39:06 +0000