When there was less pressure to get uni degree

[farmerbarleymow]

I dropped out of uni due to financial issues so don't have a degree - although I suspect most of the team I manage have them. But I've been around for a long time so it doesn't matter either way. They're just very expensive bits of paper really.

 

[dessiato]

I dropped out of uni due to financial issues so don't have a degree - although I suspect most of the team I manage have them. But I've been around for a long time so it doesn't matter either way. They're just very expensive bits of paper really.

In my opinion they open doors at the beginning of your career (I'm not sure that is always true now though) After that it's your experience and ability that counts most.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

In my opinion they open doors at the beginning of your career (I'm not sure that is always true now though) After that it's your experience and ability that counts most.

Maybe more relevant these days, but not so much when I started work thankfully. The only time I've been asked to list my qualifications was a job application 25 years ago. Never been asked since.

 

[friendofdorothy]

I went to polytechnic. First of my family to do a degree. Enabled me to move away from home. If I was young now it would never happen the idea of years of debt would be too off putting.

While going to a northern poly might sound provincial, it opened up the world to me, a world of art and ideas and people's from around the UK and around the world. It liberated me from the small town mentality that I had grown up with. And I had a great time growing up, dancing, partying and dressing up, well it was the 80s.

I'm not sure if university students ever experience that sort of liberation now, with all the academic pressures, financial pressures and emphasis on work.

 

[A380]

I left school at 16 in 83 and did a technical apprenticeship, but was the last ever year. Picked up a Masters in a completely different subject in my early 40s.

One child at a very prestigious uni. The other did a vocational course at college and started work at 18. I'm not sure of the point the OP was making.