Valuing Higher Education.

This week has provided further evidence for my suspicion that people working in admin – especially those in august institutions like the health service and universities – are selected more for the quality of their degrees than their qualities as people suitable for admin jobs. These qualities are, of course, common sense, organisational ability, and the capacity to comprehend the fact that if you have two apples and add two more, you now have four apples.

As I heard somebody say on a YouTube psychology channel recently: ‘the problem with degrees is that they don’t prepare you for the real world.’