This brief post, expanded upon by an exploration of the issues that Gilbert raises, should be an ongoing series of explorative journalism stories in the country's major newspapers, in my opinion.

Except that I do not agree with hios perspective that universities should become diploma mills. But this issue should be explored publically, and bradly throughout the society.

Now, if it becomes a societal value that the buld of people going on to post-secondary education should receive vocational "training" as that "post-secondary education" (as I would argue a B. Comm is for going to work in generic coproate entry-level roles in marketing, sales, customer service, yadda yadda .. well, I'd be OK with that, as long as that were to happen in vocational colleges (and called that, not universities).. and leave the universities to (probably much) smaller populations where liberal arts, applied-science bodies of knowledge (engineering, compuetr science, etc.) and deep rigorous basic science would be the focus of learning.

But that kind of decision would perhaps surface and illuminate today's "reality", which I might argue is closer to a Brave New World scenario than we want to admit. We camouflage the BNW issue by nce not calling what passes today for "education" by a perhaps-more-correct label, which might be "vocational training-and-socialization in diploma mills".

Ryerson used to be more of a community college focused on vocational training, before it became an "university". I still wonder if it now is what I consider an "university". I suspect that it is just a bigger, more populated vocational training institute.