हमेशा तर्क करने वाला दिमाग धार वाला वह चाकू है जो प्रयोग करने वाले के हाथ से ही खून निकाल देता है. Convet to essay
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Judging by the popular press and recent public pronouncements, universities have fallen out of favour. Hardly a week goes by that universities are not accused of being "out of touch" with economic reality and unresponsive to current job market needs.
Some have encouraged a systematic effort to direct high-school students away from the irrelevant university and toward community colleges – so they will at least have a fighting chance to find employment and live a useful life.
Meanwhile, the federal government and some provincial actors have pointedly provided or proposed additional funding recently for community colleges, but not for universities, signalling their view that the market-oriented colleges are the better investment.
The practical value of our professional faculties is rarely challenged: Medicine, Health Sciences, Engineering, Law, Education and the Telfer School of Management.
What about the Faculty of Science? Our critics may be prepared to concede that the skills of our chemists, mathematicians, biologists and physicists match usefully with contemporary needs.
That leaves the social sciences, arts and the humanities.
And now we are getting into grey areas…
How do graduates of our Social Sciences Faculty contribute? Well, psychologists are in high demand. Criminologists help us understand how to manage some of society's most challenging issues. Some economists have gone on to rewarding careers—one of them even serves as Prime Minister of Canada!
And then we get to our Faculty of Arts.
Well then, there is the heart of the problem, you say. Our 7,500 students in that faculty are at high risk of irrelevance you insist.