Try telling that to our engineering department.
Middle class southern kids with an artificially inflated skill set are ten a penny; apprentice-trained electrical or mechanical engineers are becoming rarer by the year.

And in these straitened times, when everything bar insurance and usury is dying on its arse, a degree is nothing more than a gap on your CV where other folk have work experience.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 1:19, Reply)