Assignment 6
The relationship between work and education in this week’s reading is the less education the higher the unemployment rate and the more education one earn the higher the pay rate. so, the more education you receive the more money you make and the less the unemployment rate. The article on the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the unemployment percentages and earnings of people with different degrees and those who have no education at all. it also shows that people who have less than a high school diploma and less makes four hundred and ninety-three dollars a week and the highest level you can achieve is a doctoral degree is one thousand six hundred and twenty-three dollars. There is a huge cap between those who acquire a degree from those who do not. But even though you get a good education there is no guarantee that you will receive a great job.
The NY times article shows that people and resource are being exploited due to the lack of education and the fact that they a minority who are trying to find work to take care of their family. It mentions that workers are housed in camps and their passport are being taken away and they are working for less than they are being promised. The employment codes are being violated and workers are dying at the hands of these employees just to put up big beautiful buildings and museums. They are losing their lives, not being paid, their pay being taken away ,they are scraping by to make ends meet and their families are suffering just so that these institutions can be erected in saadiyat island.in some cases they are working illegally to repay their recruitment debts.
According to the article on USAtoday website on for-profit colleges it states that there is a 64% drop out rate at for-profit colleges and they spend most of their money on non-educational things like marketing and advertisements. So, many students who attend these colleges wont graduate and most of the money they acquire is spent on getting people to come to their colleges. These for- profit colleges are said to be alternatives to community or state colleges and might not be suitable for non-traditional students. The developments in the Persian Gulf to growth of for profits colleges can be connected in the united states to do it states that they boycotted the Guggenheim so now they are going cherry picking for globalization menu.
