Are art students useless

[saqib]

art students are good for fucking, they are generally hotter than the other areas of university

how did u find this fact ?
it is the same case in our uni

[100%]

Well if the "art" students can not find relevant work, they will proceed to take shittier jobs.
This is a good thing.
Since the "art" students will then interact with those who generally have "shittier" jobs, and elevate their perspective.

[bigboab]

Part of the problem is the push for more people to have a university degree. Little thought has been given as to what they will do with these degrees, and most of those taking the courses are too immature to see that far ahead.

Another part of the problem is finding the people with the necessary skills to teach the university courses. For example, teaching science courses is difficult, yet universities are forced to adopt the same pay scales for all employees. The only leeway they have is the initial point on that scale, but once on that scale those teaching the easier subjects get exactly the same increases for experience and length of service, eroding any differential. The consequence is that there are fewer teachers and therefore fewer places for the harder subjects which means that higher grades are required to get on them.

The result is that there are masses of people with the sort of degrees that no-one wants. Correction, there is one area that needs more of these people - universities are encouraged to expand, so they take on more people who can teach the subjects that serve no useful end purpose.

Universities and Colleges are businesses. The more students they have, the more funding they get. I have seen struggling students 'pushed' through to the next academic year just to keep the numbers up. No thought for the student as a person who is virtually losing half a year of his life in a fruitless exercise. I say 'half a year' because that is all they last when they are 'pushed' up a grade.

As for art, it is a conceptional thing. Who are we mere mortals to criticise a pile of bricks when it wins an art contest.