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Ernst and Young drops degree classification threshold for graduate recruitment
World University Rankings ^ | August 3, 2015 | By Chris Havergal

Posted on 02/20/2017 6:48:22 PM PST by CorporateStepsister

One of the UK’s biggest graduate recruiters is to remove degree classification from the entry criteria for its hiring programmes, having found “no evidence” that success at university was correlated with achievement in professional qualifications.

Accountancy firm Ernst and Young, known as EY, will no longer require students to have a 2:1 degree and the equivalent of three B grades at A level to be considered for its graduate programmes.

(Excerpt) Read more at timeshighereducation.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: business; degree; ey; graduate; unitedkingdom; university
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Old article, but relevant in that I hope more companies stop requiring a stupid degree in order to take an applicant into consideration.
1 posted on 02/20/2017 6:48:22 PM PST by CorporateStepsister
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To: CorporateStepsister

Sooner or later the education bubble will burst.


2 posted on 02/20/2017 6:57:10 PM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: CorporateStepsister
Too many people cheat in school and the professors and deans don't do anything to change it up.

Either give everyone all the past tests, homeworks, and quizzes, or never give them back. Really, only the first option works best.

Make the professors come up with new assignments. They have jobs to do and ought to be doing them.

3 posted on 02/20/2017 6:57:16 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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Too many non Christians cheat in school. The rest feel no guilt or theoretical punishment.


4 posted on 02/20/2017 7:00:26 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Drop Ernst and young quickly!!


5 posted on 02/20/2017 7:00:52 PM PST by WENDLE (TRUMP 2020 !!! It is ON!! God blessed this country!!)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Did you read the article?

It goes on to say that this will open up jobs to ‘work on class’ people that are normally locked out ...


6 posted on 02/20/2017 7:03:01 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: CorporateStepsister

I agree 100%. One of our “kids” in special effects knows more about programming than Pixar so-called tech guys. Didn’t study at those fancy art and media schools. One time at the Christmas party, we asked him which school he graduated from and we tossed the same ole digital arts schools.

He said “nope. I learned most of them from Youtube.” Beat the other guy from USC with a 40,000 tuition he still has to pay.


7 posted on 02/20/2017 7:04:06 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Drop any HS requirements also ....


8 posted on 02/20/2017 7:04:41 PM PST by TexasGator
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Old article, but relevant in that I hope more companies stop requiring a stupid degree in order to take an applicant into consideration.

There are quite a few congresspersons who hold stupid degrees.

9 posted on 02/20/2017 7:10:47 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Some junior colleges offer great accounting programs which force students to learn the nuts and bolts of the accounting process. Too many people now call themselves accountants because they can do data entry in QuickBooks. Haven’t a clue as to how to do a Journal Entry or interpret a Balance Sheet.

Many trainees can be taught on-the-job but I disagree that accounting is one of those fields.


10 posted on 02/20/2017 7:13:18 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

They still require a degree, they are just going to stop requiring good grades in it.


11 posted on 02/20/2017 7:14:54 PM PST by fluorescence
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Very true — I have seen people with a high school education outperform someone with a master’s degree in a technical field like programming. I say that as someone with a master’s degree.

That doesn’t mean degrees or grades are useless. It just means they are not destiny. There are very useful skills and knowledge to be gained from higher education, but also many skills few jobs actually require.

There are really two requirements to be successful at work: 1. Show up. 2. Do what you are told. If you at least attempt to do what you are told, you will eventually pick it up.


12 posted on 02/20/2017 7:16:03 PM PST by hopespringseternal
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It’s not about just being hired for the first position you take in a company, they want to hire people that they see potential in moving up the ladder.


13 posted on 02/20/2017 7:17:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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And we have a “template” of interviewing to find out if you’re a lib, without getting sued.

Of course sometimes, you have to look at the applicant’s car if they have a stupid Feel the Bern’ sticker still on even after all this time...


14 posted on 02/20/2017 7:20:10 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: hopespringseternal

That is really not possible in accounting, which is something completely different from bookkeeping. Lawyers go to law school and doctors go to medical school for a reason.

An accounting degree is preparation for entry into a profession. Trust me, there is lots of “on the job training” required after the degree.


15 posted on 02/20/2017 7:20:16 PM PST by independentmind (In te, Dómine, sperávi: non confúndar in ætérnum.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Not surprisingly, given the level of idiocy at that firm

Accountants there are some of the most dysfunctional people I’ve ever known.


16 posted on 02/20/2017 7:28:45 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT Mexico NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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“having found “no evidence” that success at university was correlated with achievement in professional qualifications”

i can believe that. especially given the nature of today’s college degrees, which are for the most part VERY EXPENSIVE pieces of paper awarded for accepting the visions of Marxists teachers.

Even during the best of times, proving that one can slough through miles of crap for four or more years does not necessarily prove that one is talented, innovative, perseverant, focused, disciplined, or a hard worker.


17 posted on 02/20/2017 7:33:19 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Most large CPA firms have a minimum gradepoint average that they require before someone can even get an interview.

This article is talking about getting rid of a GPA threshold, not about doing away with the need for a college degree.


18 posted on 02/20/2017 7:36:28 PM PST by independentmind (In te, Dómine, sperávi: non confúndar in ætérnum.)
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For those of us who aren’t British, what does “a 2:1 degree and the equivalent of three B grades at A level” mean?


19 posted on 02/20/2017 7:46:23 PM PST by GrootheWanderer
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Since I looked it up, I will comment. It looks to be some sort of class ranking, smiliar to US cum laude honors.

This article has nothing to do with not needing a college degree.


20 posted on 02/20/2017 7:51:44 PM PST by independentmind (In te, Dómine, sperávi: non confúndar in ætérnum.)
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