At present, the seriousness of educational involution is self-evident. For example, in 2010, most undergraduates and junior college students first considered employment after graduation. For example, at that time, Xiaobian knew a lot of engineering students from junior colleges, and after graduation, they all chose to study an on-the-job degree while working, and then took the certificate to constantly improve themselves, and aimed to work early, develop early, and make money early. The same is true for undergraduates. After all, it takes time to get a PhD or get a PhD. Therefore, for those who are anxious to recoup the cost of their investment, it is imperative to find employment early.
But now everything seems to have changed: after graduating from junior college, they feel that they have hit a wall in employment, and almost most of the jobs that require academic qualifications require a bachelor's degree to start. This forces junior college students to consider upgrading to a higher education. However, after graduating from junior college, they found that many employers that require a bachelor's degree require a direct book, or a complete bachelor's degree, that is, a bachelor's degree at the beginning of high school, and do not accept the college upgrade. After all, with a graduate degree, it doesn't matter whether the college is upgraded or not.
And undergraduates also feel embarrassed after graduation: because after graduation, undergraduates will find that although they can be employed after graduation, many jobs are not what undergraduates want. So if you want a better job, you have to go to graduate school.
As a result, the track for postgraduate entrance examination has become extremely crowded, and there is even a saying of "three college entrance examinations": that is, high school-university is the first college entrance examination, university-master's degree is the second college entrance examination, and master's student-doctoral student is regarded as the third college entrance examination.
You know, a person's life is only a few decades, and most people's professional life is around 35 years old. That is to say, for most people, after the age of 35, they will face the embarrassment of employment and be forced to become a freelancer. Therefore, if you study an unreliable doctorate, and then struggle to find employment after graduation, and you are still in an advanced state after graduation, then this is undoubtedly a very embarrassing life.
In addition, some people choose to study for a master's degree and a doctorate after graduating from a bachelor's degree, and doctoral graduation is actually a "metaphysics". There are many people who feel that they can't afford to survive after seven or eight years of hard work for a master's degree or doctorate, so they choose to drop out, and as a result, they toss for seven or eight years in vain, and in the end they just mix a bachelor's degree + bachelor's degree.
Therefore, in the context of educational involution, many people have become victims of academic involution. In addition, the involution of education has also caused a waste of educational resources - for example, jobs that can be qualified after graduating from vocational high school require a bachelor's degree, and jobs that can be qualified for a bachelor's degree require a master's degree or doctorate.
Personally, I think that this kind of involution is actually endless. What needs to be changed to reverse this situation is the evaluation system and the wrong values.
In the early 90s, for rural youth, the popularity of technical secondary school was much higher than that of high school, because after graduating from secondary school, they were directly enrolled in the program. With the need for self-employment after graduating from secondary school, the popularity of high school began to surpass that of secondary school overnight.
In fact, if you want to put an end to the involution of academic qualifications, I personally think that there is no way: that is, when employers hire newcomers in the future, they can consider the role of marginalized academic qualifications: use family resources and family backgrounds as the basis for screening to hire newcomers - after all, groups with good backgrounds and family resources often have better academic qualifications, and this part of the group is enough to meet the needs of all walks of life for talents. In this way, the grassroots group can return to reality, and in the face of reality, the academic involution will disappear overnight.