The Government can see that the overwhelming need to gain a Degree is unhealthy for the economy; this was demonstrated through the introduction of Diplomas.
Studying for a Diploma is supposed to give you more life skills than you would gain by just going straight from school to college and then to university.
They are supposed to provide equal exposure to life and education – you can’t learn life and you can’t dictate how, when or where a person learns life skills. Does this make a Diploma right or wrong?
It is quite likely that you will learn more ‘life skills’ whilst studying for a Diploma than you would by taking the stereotypical educational path: school – college – university.
If more people go to university, because they think that’s what is expected of them, then the qualification ‘bar’ is raised, it is raised because a Degree is no-longer rare. Imagine a world where a Degree is the minimum entry qualification for a job. Is this possible?
The need for a Degree has created problems, or opportunities – it’s hard to tell. The ‘Mickey Mouse Degree’ is an example.
It is a good thing that more people want to develop themselves through higher education but, do we create education (in an academic sense) where education does not need to be? Look at some of the ‘Mickey Mouse’ Degrees from the link above.
Arguably the creation of these means there are more jobs; it creates an opportunity for a person to pass down knowledge of a particular subject to multiple people through one class, making sure the knowledge is not lost. Good, right?
What does a Degree mean now?
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