This is somewhat unreliable, though.
On the assumption that the people who get degrees are, on the whole, the most capable, we'd expect them to be the higher earners anyway - degree or not. It's not at all clear that having a degree makes you more likely to be a high earner: it's at least as likely that being likely to be a high earner makes you the sort of person who'll have a degree.

I'm unstinting in my support for the idea of higher education for its own sake; but the employment argument is a crock, and degrees have become massively fetishised. There's absolutely no reason to suppose that, careerwise, a degree makes you any better off than a decent apprenticeship system would.

This applies - at least substantially - to the white-collar world as well, of course: what are the clinical years of a medical degree (and the house year) if not an apprenticeship?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 10:08, 1 reply)

I don't disagree with any of that.
The previous post is a crock of old shite.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 10:14, closed)