Umbra...kind of deals with the issue for me. The educational system in this country serves largely ideological and reproductive purposes and only a small amount of useful and transferable skills. The value of the MBA in particular has been dissed from high and low including business experts..Got a copy of the Harvard Business Review completely focused on discussions about the value of an MBA...We will forget about the large amounts of money institutions make from peddling.these courses..

I use to teach in a business dept back in the day and our classes used to be packed with black people in particular and that goes through the entire Further and Higher Educational system..But hear what..how many of those students ever went onto to run a business...can name them on one hand and most of them were West African who came from a commercial culture and would have gone into it anyhow.

If you want to teach someone businesses skills it is better to stick them into a small one man shop or hotdog stand and let them learn that way..Later they can go and do theoretical stuff and get paper, but I never advise people to give up practical stuff to obtain a theoretical qualification. If you can't balance both then don't waste your time and earning opportunities and money in school studying shite..