Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "Have Taiwanese University Degrees Been Devalued?" video.

The problem is that lots of people get the degree without the talent. They now believe they deserve a nice indoor job in an office with air conditioning and a high salary, preferably without too much hard work. There aren't enough of those jobs, especially not for the people who have a degree but not the talent. There isn't anything the government can do to get all of them a nice job. Some of them, yes, but far from all of them.
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The problem is huge in Denmark... and it is getting worse with all the "qualified cultural enrichment" we have been having more and more of. The government changes the grading scale here twice, first in a visible way that made it hard to compare grades before and after. Later in a hidden way that most of the population hasn't caught on to even though it is right there in the law that changed the grading scale. The result is that grades look high despite an actual palpable quality decline... and the ceiling of the scale is also much lower now so lots of people are happy that they get "top grades".
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East Asians have a right shifted IQ distribution, so they can handle "college for all!" (and "high school for all!") better than the US and Europe. Apart from that, I agree entirely.
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@MrMakabar What you are really saying is that reliable external examinations would be useful. Why should the teaching be coupled to the (no longer so reliable) examinations?
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