An academic degree: More than just a piece of paper?

Gaining that required qualification to put on your CV is what counts to win a job in today's "graduate economy". On current trends, perhaps everyone will have a degree by the end of this century. Already in Finland, a remarkable 80% of young people are now going to university

With so many people obtaining degree qualifications there are concerns that academic credentials are losing meaning and value. "Credentialism", a concept coined by social scientists in the 1970s, is the reduction of qualifications to status conferring pieces of paper. It's an ideology which puts formal educational credentials above other ways of understanding human potential and ability Read more...

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