If you left school in the 1960's with 4 'O' levels, you had a pretty good education and you could go on to an ONC at college. If you had an HND you could apply to be an Incorporated Engineer. Now the Engineering Council is asking for at least a BSc (Hons) for I Eng.
2006-08-10 10:19:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Yes we do suffer from academic inflation. The government wants a large percentage of people to go to university. What then happens? Everyone has more qualifications, so every job needs a higher qualification. And in order to let more people get qualifications you have to lower the standards.
2006-08-10 10:30:47 · answer #1 · answered by Steve-Bob 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yep - its getting to the stage that for any decent kind of job with reasonable pay and working conditions you have to have a degree. I knew someone who applied for the dustman job and was told they needed a minimum of 4 standard grades. Jesus. Not everyone has these - but then the whole school system is geared towards academic success. They need to bring in vocational qualifications such as construction, beauty, etc into the schools and not have the academically less inclined be put on a scrap heap of truancy until they are old enought to go to college.
2006-08-10 10:28:29 · answer #2 · answered by Allasse 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, and i think this will be a hard issue to most people in twenty years, so maybe we'll see a lot of self employees or something similar, people with a very specialized skill working in projects with tons of specialists.
(I think we'll need a reform in the education system too, but is too early now to be sure)
2006-08-10 10:34:08 · answer #3 · answered by Leonel More 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋