How do you evaluate the recent situation of university students?

5 points by _v9nk 1 year ago | 9 comments

I have always been curious about education-related issues. What is the current situation of university students? Can I request a sociological and psychological evaluation? I would be happy to receive comments from university professors or parents.

alexander2002 1 year ago |

1)Define recent "1 day" "1 week" "1 year" "10 years".

2)Univesity students have 3 main issues broadly speaking imho.

  2a.Future Prospects - What are the trends in the Job Market/economy?

  2b.Present Well-being - Are they studying in a healthy environment?

  2c.Past Experiences - Are they well adjusted/groomed for university life?

My hypothesis is that any missing links might cause a noticable decline in sociological and psychological evaluation of a "indiviual student" .

For the general student population,You can find literature from Experts who are far more competent than me since various other variables might also be linked which I am not aware of.

_v9nk 1 year ago | |

What I mean is, what are the students' attitudes in life? What do they want to do? What don't they want to do?

andyjohnson0 1 year ago | | |

Parent of university student here, so n=1

They want approximately what everyone wants at that age: meaningful experiences, meaningful work, somewhere affordable and safe to live, a functioning future, etc. Where they differ is in their confidence that they'll ever attain any of those things.

ahazred8ta 1 year ago |

Many students are not college-ready. They don't want to read, write, or follow instructions.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1g5fhae/utterly...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Professors/

_v9nk 1 year ago | |

Thanks for this Reddit link.

sky2224 1 year ago |

Too broad of a question. What do you mean by "recent situation"?

_v9nk 1 year ago | |

Their state of mind and attitude. Whatever comes to your mind.

sabbaticaldev 1 year ago |

Talking about my country, it seems more young people prefer to be an influencer than a engineer, in the end most of them can’t become an influencer and so they also don’t become engineers

noprocrasted 1 year ago | |

Perfectly rational when becoming an "influencer" is an easier decision to make with little/no downside if it doesn't work out, where as becoming an engineer requires a significant time and money (tuition fees) investment for something that's not actually all that well rewarded outside of a very specific niche (_software_ engineering) in the US.