MalcSB
Well-Known Member
The trouble is that there has been qualification inflation, largely following Blair’s encouragement of attendance at University and forcing people to stay in education until 18. When I started out, I got a job locally and then went on day release to Lanchester Polytechnic as it was then. Got an HNC followed by a masters level professional qualification all by part time study, paid for by the employer, while earning a reasonable wage. (I suppose this will be used as yet more evidence of the benefits enjoyed by boomers).
Then degrees became the norm. The Lanchester became Coventry University as universities became big business and you can now do a degree in the psychology of Taylor Swift, ffs. Many jobs arguably became easier to do with automation and now AI, and yet it seems as if a degree is required where at most A levels would once have been.
University vice chancellors get richer as students get poorer and the country does not necessarily get the skills it requires. Stopping bursaries for student nurses was madness. Allowing the BMA and the like to influence (depress) the number of medical students equally so. Who needs a Taylor Swift degree?
Rant over.