Re:'My degree is next to worthless'
by tonyedgecombe on Monday August 24, 2015 @11:51AM
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The problem isn't so much that they are no longer door-opening, it's rather that not having a degree has become door-closing.
Re:'My degree is next to worthless'
by saint_fiasco on Monday August 24, 2015 @02:03PM
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I wonder if that's really true.
I understand that nobody wants to do the experiment with their own lives, but if you can realize that there are competent people who aren't getting hired because they lack college degrees, surely employers will realize that too.
Would they leave money on the table like that?
The whole thing is probably fallout from the Blairite changes to the system. It used to be that degrees were free and scarce - limited by academic admissions criteria. They have been changed to widespread and loan-based. People expect them to have the door-opening prestige of the old system and haven't really adapted to them becoming an expensive trade school for the middle class.