Who needs a degree! (Is your degree worth the paper that it's written on?)

Name: kristian1111

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Product:	Is your degree worth the paper that it's written on?
Date:	08.02.07 (206 review reads)
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With this case study I am going to jump straight to the point, I don’t think a degree is worth the paper it’s written on.

This is my personal opinion, I have always stated to my friends and family that I would never go to university for these reasons:

1) Why get more education if it’s not compulsory, ok so I am lazy
2) Why come out in thousands of pounds worth of debt
3) Why be like the 1000’s of other people that took the same course as you.
4) Isn’t University just going on the razz every night

Let’s look at these points in some more detail

Why get more education if it’s not compulsory?

Ok this is more my point and it kind of links in with point 3 so I will talk about it in more detail then.

Why come out in thousands of pounds worth of debt?

Ok unless you have the money to live whilst studying, what’s the point in taking out a student loan and finding yourself in so much debt that you have to work for anything up to 3 years to pay it off, here is my main point, why go to university when you can become a paid apprentice, this way you learn plus you get paid all at the same time, you don’t run yourself into £1000’s of pounds worth of debt and you gain valuable on the job experience, plus if you get on a guaranteed placement scheme then you have a job at the other end, whereas if you go to university your not guaranteed a job, ok your qualifications may be better, but how many people do you know or have you heard of that get a degree in media and come out to work in a 9 to 5 office job which has nothing to do with media, it’s ludicrous.

Why be like the 1000’s of other people that took the same course as you?

When you go to university it’s a fact that regardless of the degree you receive you are going to come out like cattle, thousands upon thousands of people have just got the same qualification that you have so what makes you any different to the next person that come out?

That’s why you see so many people come out with degrees and enter jobs that are nothing to do with the degree, it’s a known fact, for example if you go to university and get a stockbrokers degree and come out for an entry level job there are less jobs offered that year then degrees given, so some of these people are coming out with debt and can not even get the job that they want where is the sense in that?

The whole idea of university seems like cattle to me, 1000’s of people go through the doors, then thousands of people come out the other side knowing exactly the same facts that all the others do.

Isn’t university just going out on the razz every night?

Now I know this sounds a bit inane but if you go to uni do you not just go out on the razz every night, I am 20 years old so a lot of the people I know are at uni now, whenever I ask them what they are doing they are always out or going out, I know at least one of my friends went to uni just for that one reason he thought it was like going to an extended 18-30’s holiday, he turns up at 1 lecture a day if he can be bothered then goes out at night, what’s the point!

Obviously there are plus points by going to uni, it looks a lot more impressive to employers if you see that somebody has a degree rather than somebody without a degree, however if you have gone to uni for 3 years and I have been working for 3 years then as an employer I would hire the person that has been working for 3 years as long as he had good references and a solid understand of the job, instead of somebody that might know a lot more about the job but wouldn’t have any on the job experience.

Thanks for reading.

Summary: It's only for the razz!