What do you think about higher education, is it necessary these days?

Often, our success at work depends on solid communication skills, whether it be oral or written. And, in my opinion, we need colledge for impoving our communication abilities. With an ever changing global society, communication abilities can help compete in the changing career landscape, digital advancements, and increasingly difficult competition at the workplace.

In my opinion, it depends. There are a lot of people thinking person without higher education can gain nothing in his life. But it actually depends on definition of the success. So, there’re so many areas people can be successful in, and few from them need higher education. If we’re talking about career in IT, it also depends. Because many tech companies require having higher education from candidates applying for managing positions. But to build a career as an engineer, for instance, higher education is not required. Also, agree with @ahmet_hojamyradov about quality of the education: some universities prevent graduating unqualified specialists, some don’t. Rating of the university matters. In summary, higher education can be helpful for some people as well as it can be useless for other.

We are definitely in a skill based economy, so a degree makes sense only for a few particular professions like law, medicine etc. So by higher education if you mean degree then they are not as essential as before. But definitely upskilling has to be given very high priority.

nothing is necessary these days

I think there's a great need for vocational (job specific) training. If you go to college you gain knowledge, theory and critical thinking skills. Vocation training provides a bit of that, but instead focuses on practical, actionable skill acquisition which can get you a job in a few months. And often times these jobs pay more than traditional careers you might get if you did complete college. Excluding of course things like medicine, law, aerospace engineering, etc :)

I think the extra years after high school allows young people to really figure out what they want to do without the pressure that comes from regular employment. Despite that, my first job was really where I developed and built the foundational skills that I use today, not higher education.

For some jobs, higher education is a must (medicine, science, etc.). I know many people that have multiple degrees and the ones who decided not to have any. Despite the fact that the latter do not have higher education, they have good positions and know their work well (mostly in IT). What is important for the employer is that you have a sufficient level of knowledge, are ready to learn, and know how to work with people and tight deadlines. Universities and institutes give such practical skills in the course of study. And people who choose to study on their own need to be disciplined, which is challenging. I think getting a quality higher education is a necessary step for most of us. But it's not easy to find quality education in the CIS, unfortunately :)

Higher education is crucial these days. It is the time in which I develop my critical thinking skills and broaden my horizons.

It really depends on your field. If you are going into social media or sw programming, it is not necessary, but nice to have. If you want to become a physician or mechanical engineer, it's necessary.

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