Necessary to even have a shot at getting a job you want?
Likely...
First step might be to deal with the fact that the employment market generally isn't interested in taking a chance on folks without a degree / not interested in offering alternate paths.
Funny it is getting really hard to find tradespeople to work on your house these days. I don't see those jobs getting outsourced or done by AI any time soon.
More fundamentally higher ed faces the problem that people are having fewer children and trend is (i) getting worse all the time and (i) baked in from 20 years ago. Funny, college attendance lowers the birth rate
Necessary to even have a shot at getting a job you want?
Likely...
First step might be to deal with the fact that the employment market generally isn't interested in taking a chance on folks without a degree / not interested in offering alternate paths.
Funny it is getting really hard to find tradespeople to work on your house these days. I don't see those jobs getting outsourced or done by AI any time soon.
More fundamentally higher ed faces the problem that people are having fewer children and trend is (i) getting worse all the time and (i) baked in from 20 years ago. Funny, college attendance lowers the birth rate
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3449224/
so the cycle perpetuates itself.