Is your degree worth the paper that it's written on? Reviews

In my opinion, the value of a degree depends on the value it has for the person who has it. If you don't have the motivation to attend university, actually go to lectures, do assignments, do course reading and make all your deadlines, there is no point in you being there. Getting yourself into debt for what? But where would the world be without ...

Education is very important. Degree's get people good jobs. A very important thing happened in the early 90's. For some reason government came out with a policy of making education accessible to everyone. Any old college was allowed to become a university. Good students went to good universities. New universities were ...

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) ...

I think that with degrees it can be at times not worth the paper it’s written on. But then other times people get jobs according to what their degree it. When it came to the end of 6th form and I had to make a decision as to what uni i wanted to go to, I decided that I would like to go and I was going to study computer science. A few ...

The first bit of this review is my story and if you are not interested in that then scroll to the second section which is about my verdict on the topic. ----- My story: Now when I was in school and in sixth form we were told by our teachers that it was a good idea to apply for university because it would give us ...

Taken literally a degree is certainly worth more than the paper it is written on as in my view it can open doors that otherwise may remain closed to those without a degree. It really does depend on a number of factors how valuable a degree is to an individual. Some of the key factors are the subject you study, the level of degree you ...

Well the query of 'is my degree worth the paper it's written on' really boils down to one thing- if you do it for yourself and your personal learning, or if you do it to make your fame and fortune. Seems a sad thing to have to say, but if Tony Blair's ambition comes true and 50% of all school leavers go to ...

Im just going into my final year of a degree in Archaeology. I started the degree thinking "Yeah, its going to be like Time Team, cool!". Little could I know how different it could be! When I started and since, we have been given talks on how great Archaeology is as a degree as it has SOO many "transferable ...

I never went to university and if all truth be told, I dont regret that one bit. It is not that I wouldn't recommend it to other people, there is certainly a large amount that I missed out on by not going, but I have progressed with my life just as well as if I had gone, so nothing was really lost for me. I should maybe explain what ...

Calling all graduates- be proud of what you have, it WILL help you achieve something in life, that is IF YOU USE IT PROPERLY. SORRY THIS IS SO LONG - BUT I HOPE IT WILL BE USEFUL TO SOMEONE - I LEARNT THE HARD WAY WHAT SUBJECT? If you have a specialism and excel in a particular subject area, then study it, whether it is ...

Once upon a time, having a degree was a very rare thing indeed; a real status symbol. These days things have changed as the frontiers of education have opened up, and consequently more and more people each year are graduating from colleges and universities ? people who have degrees and are not afraid to use them. Inevitably however, questions ...

Are new Degrees worth the paper they are written on? Well not in my case as it was a piece of bog paper care of a“bog standard”comprehensive second time around. If guys like me can go to college then the whole point of University as a seat of higher learning has well and truly gone out of the skyscraper window. The old Polys ...

*cough* Sorry, how many words does this have to be? When does it have to be handed in? :) To decide whether or not a degree is worth the paper it's written on, you need to know what you want to get out of it. For example, I wanted to be a journalist, so went to Southampton Institute and did a BA in Journalism, and now here I am, a few ...

I have a first class degree in English & History from an “old” university. Do I have a high-flying career? No. Do I want a high-flying career? No. Whether a degree is worth anything or not is inextricably related to your motivation for doing it in the first place. When at university I was surprised and saddened to find that so many ...

To be honest I think the New University Degrees on the whole are a positive thing-giving people the chance to go on to Uni be it an old Polytechnic and have the option of a three year course away from the drag of work and at any stage of their lives who perhaps couldn’t have under the previous anachronistic elite regime. The old stagers ...

Achieving a degree in your education is a great moment. Not only does it represent the end of your time at university, it generally represents the pinnacle of your education. It is a real milestone in your life. But is it still worth anything? At the back of this discussion topic is the fact that, since the late-1990s, more people than ...

When I set out to gain my HND in Amenity Horticulture in 1992, little did I know how much socialising I was going to do during my 3 year course. So much so that in the end, I had to go back in the summer to do resits before I eventually got a conditional pass at my own expense. This got me thinking. " am I now going to be confined to a ...

When I got my degree five years ago I was relieved to say the least. That was my studying over with I could have a break after 17 years of continuous education. However at my graduation ceremony something began to dawn on me. Everyone of the several hundred people in the graduation hall also had an honours degree and there were quite a few who, ...

People can only really talk about their own experiences, in their own field of education and employment. Therefore I will admit that my review, based mainly around my own experiences, will have many details which are not applicable to some readers. However I will try to make this as widely relevant as I can. When I was 15, I thought my ...

Only an employer can really answer this question, as only they know how highly they still rate a British degree, or a degree from particular British Universities. Having graduated myself and looked for a job I would say that in my experience a lot of small to medium size companies value people with a degree very highly and think it marks them out ...