The Relationship Between Education and Work
In the article, Raising the floor not the ceiling” by Tressie Cottom, to reform higher ed, we need a job guarantee, and I couldn’t agree more. Nowadays having a high school diploma is no longer enough. Lots of jobs require higher education and even sometimes that is not enough, having a degree doesn’t guarantee a job anymore. I think her argument is that the president or just the Educational system in general should provide all students with better quality schools and a more reasonable price, so there is more student success. We know that the system is not completely fair, and that there are students who can afford going to private schools while others are not as privileged and have to hope that the education they will be getting can change their lives in the future. As far as work and education goes, they go together. I think we need to have some kind of experience to have a particular job, or sometimes we receive training to gain the knowledge to be able to do the job and it gives us a better understanding. Education equals Knowledge and Knowledge equals employment. Looking at the chart, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the earnings and unemployment says a lot about wages, salary workers and the educational system. If you don’t have any type of education you cant have a job.
As far as the profit schools in the U.S. The argument is that there is money wasted on schools that can’t get students to graduate or allow them to graduate with slim prospects for employment. The senate is complaining that half of these students just don’t make it to graduation and are stuck with a debt. You are paying for something to get some kind of profit in return, and in reality you get nothing. Instead of using the money on their students they spend most of their money on advertisements to get students to enroll. On Saadiyat island the migrant laborers are bounded to an employer and by the kafala system, and are heavily in debt from recruitment and transit fees. Then their passports and houses are taken from them, they get paid less and are forces to work in the sun. Not many policies are enforced, employers are supposed to pay off their workers, so the worker is stuck trying to pay off their dues. The workers are being exploited for their labor and they have no value, like marx would say
