23rd February 2013, 09:30 AM
Dinosaur Wrote:Durham used to let people in for archaeology with a couple of Bs, a C and a D thrown in for good measure ....or so I've heard......I've got nothing at all, and they made me an unconditional offer!
@Wax: Quite! One of the problems is that university no longer prepares people to fill useful roles in society, it's just "study whatever interests you". On top of this, it's almost an automatic follow on from school and most new uni students have no idea about the "real world" or what they want to do with their life. They're funnelled into degree programmes that either they have been judged a good fit for, they regard as "easy", or because at that moment (before ever living outside their family home) they have an interest in. This results in hundreds of graduates with no useful life/work skills, with useless degrees, that then clamour to be valued just because they have degrees. Those that do get jobs in their degree field often end up having mid-life crises a few years down the track when they realise that their career isn't what they really want to be doing.
On the other hand, degrees have become such an automatic/standard thing that most employers now require a degree just to tick off a checkbox. It's an easy way to cut down on the number of applicants to interview, that's for sure.
Hm, I haven't had my breakfast cuppa yet.