Guest Post by Karl Denninger
My complaint with the University System (in the general sense) goes back literal decades; during my time at MCSNet I blackballed degrees from a number of Universities, declaring that they had no value in my hiring decisions, as a result of certain departments within those schools “teaching” things that were, in my opinion, quite possible to falsify.
You can’t defend teaching something that can be mathematically or scientifically falsified — and this is doubly true when the university starts trying to arm-twist the government into turning speaking in a dissenting voice into a disqualifying characteristic for a job or even worse, a felony charge.
But now it gets better — Ernst & Young in the UK has announced that it will remove degree requirementsfrom its entry criteria, saying that there is no evidence that success in college correlates with achievement through life.
It’s about damn time.
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