Posted on 02/20/2017 6:48:22 PM PST by CorporateStepsister
One of the UKs biggest graduate recruiters is to remove degree classification from the entry criteria for its hiring programmes, having found no evidence that success at university was correlated with achievement in professional qualifications.
Accountancy firm Ernst and Young, known as EY, will no longer require students to have a 2:1 degree and the equivalent of three B grades at A level to be considered for its graduate programmes.
(Excerpt) Read more at timeshighereducation.com ...
Sooner or later the education bubble will burst.
Either give everyone all the past tests, homeworks, and quizzes, or never give them back. Really, only the first option works best.
Make the professors come up with new assignments. They have jobs to do and ought to be doing them.
Too many non Christians cheat in school. The rest feel no guilt or theoretical punishment.
Drop Ernst and young quickly!!
Did you read the article?
It goes on to say that this will open up jobs to ‘work on class’ people that are normally locked out ...
I agree 100%. One of our “kids” in special effects knows more about programming than Pixar so-called tech guys. Didn’t study at those fancy art and media schools. One time at the Christmas party, we asked him which school he graduated from and we tossed the same ole digital arts schools.
He said “nope. I learned most of them from Youtube.” Beat the other guy from USC with a 40,000 tuition he still has to pay.
Drop any HS requirements also ....
There are quite a few congresspersons who hold stupid degrees.
Some junior colleges offer great accounting programs which force students to learn the nuts and bolts of the accounting process. Too many people now call themselves accountants because they can do data entry in QuickBooks. Haven’t a clue as to how to do a Journal Entry or interpret a Balance Sheet.
Many trainees can be taught on-the-job but I disagree that accounting is one of those fields.
They still require a degree, they are just going to stop requiring good grades in it.
Very true — I have seen people with a high school education outperform someone with a master’s degree in a technical field like programming. I say that as someone with a master’s degree.
That doesn’t mean degrees or grades are useless. It just means they are not destiny. There are very useful skills and knowledge to be gained from higher education, but also many skills few jobs actually require.
There are really two requirements to be successful at work: 1. Show up. 2. Do what you are told. If you at least attempt to do what you are told, you will eventually pick it up.
It’s not about just being hired for the first position you take in a company, they want to hire people that they see potential in moving up the ladder.
And we have a “template” of interviewing to find out if you’re a lib, without getting sued.
Of course sometimes, you have to look at the applicant’s car if they have a stupid Feel the Bern’ sticker still on even after all this time...
That is really not possible in accounting, which is something completely different from bookkeeping. Lawyers go to law school and doctors go to medical school for a reason.
An accounting degree is preparation for entry into a profession. Trust me, there is lots of “on the job training” required after the degree.
Not surprisingly, given the level of idiocy at that firm
Accountants there are some of the most dysfunctional people I’ve ever known.
“having found no evidence that success at university was correlated with achievement in professional qualifications”
i can believe that. especially given the nature of today’s college degrees, which are for the most part VERY EXPENSIVE pieces of paper awarded for accepting the visions of Marxists teachers.
Even during the best of times, proving that one can slough through miles of crap for four or more years does not necessarily prove that one is talented, innovative, perseverant, focused, disciplined, or a hard worker.
Most large CPA firms have a minimum gradepoint average that they require before someone can even get an interview.
This article is talking about getting rid of a GPA threshold, not about doing away with the need for a college degree.
For those of us who aren’t British, what does “a 2:1 degree and the equivalent of three B grades at A level” mean?
Since I looked it up, I will comment. It looks to be some sort of class ranking, smiliar to US cum laude honors.
This article has nothing to do with not needing a college degree.
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