Is having a degree the new GCSE?

[EastEnder]

no because i do actually want a decent degree enough to... [i think].

No doubt.

But do you want it enough to actually put in the effort?

 

[118118]

i could have spent last year bursting into tears every few moments, i was trying that hard. i admit that a few routine tasks got put to one side: but as far as i can remember i did tend to complete them eventually.

i reckon application is more useful than effort here.

 

[Jonti]

And yet, you're the one that's coming across as a rather unpleasant person instead of her...

Not to me, Thora. I'd say you were in far greater danger of that

 

[_angel_]

Well aside from all the personal sniping... my point wasn't really about the devaluing of degrees, although they have been* and I suppose the wording of this title would make people think that was my point.

Really, I was trying to point out that by employers demanding degrees for jobs that basically don't need them and that a few years ago a person leaving school with GCSES could have done is restricting the mobility of people who can't afford to do degrees.

It might be a bit better had the Morrison's management scheme wanted someone with a relevant degree (something like business studies or management or retail) and some relevant experience, but they did not stipulate this.


*Some of them, at least.

 

[Leeloks]

Think its more common for someone to hold a degree these days than it was say 15 years ago. 15 years ago the supermarket may have asked for A-levels because they were the most common highest level of education at the time.
Now degrees are more accessible to the masses (eg. me!) there are much more of them.

Needing a degree depends entirely on what profession you choose. Without a degree i would not have the required information and skills to become an ecologist. I knew bits from experience, but they have taught me more and expanded my knowledge.
I think some degrees however are pretty pointless, but i aint gonna diss them.

 

[JTG]

And yet, you're the one that's coming across as a rather unpleasant person instead of her...

yeah, interesting thread with some good points made by angel yet the usual faces come along to have a pop at her. dull as fuck tbh and rather nasty with it.

 

[_angel_]

Exactly

Originally degrees were never meant to be vocational, they were for people who wanted to become experts in academic fields, or for whom such expertise was mandated prior to entering a career - like a solicitor needing a law degree.

To my mind, "vocational degree" is almost an oxymoron. Seems like it's rather missing the point....

Sorry, I meant a degree that actually qualifies you to do something like, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, physiotherapy, teaching etc etc when I said 'vocational'.

 

[northernhord]

Ive got a few bitsa paper, only one of em gets me jobs and it my degree one either.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Ive got a few bitsa paper, only one of em gets me jobs and it my degree one either.

Is it that certificate from Rampton that says "Northern iz sayne, sined hiz lektrik shok ferapissed"?