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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
It's not policy, it's just the market being slowly flooded with kids with degrees, if your an employer you have a choice so you tend to pick the better qualified kid whether you really need it or not. After a while that just becomes the requirement.
I'm in my mid fifties, when I left school grade ten was all you needed for most blue collar gigs, (O levels in the UK). As more and more kids went on to get their grade twelve that became the basic requirement, now that so many B.A's are knocking around that is gradually becoming the standard.
The actual requirement for the jobs hasnt changed, can you read and write, do basic math and turn up at 8am moderately presentable. The rest you learn on the job just the same as you did fifty years ago.
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Not just a B.A, look at business degrees. A B.Comm isn't that useful anymore, now companies want accounting designations/MBA on top of business degrees.
My father had a great accounting job in government with only a business degree. When he retired the mid 2000s, candidates had to have an ass load of designations in addition to a degree, not to mention years of relevant experience.