Amber wrote:
SteveDH wrote:
Anyway I think the bottom line, it is pretty clear that not all degrees are made the same.
I wonder if employees take this into account, or is going to a university with better standards potential a disadvantage, especially as in most cases a degree below a 2.1 is effectively worthless.
Yes I have started to wonder this too. I know so many young people who got firsts recently and without wanting to sound snotty, I do wonder how some of them did it. I also have a slight vested interest here as my older two are at, or about to be at, high tariff universities, and my daughter is working her socks off to try and get a first. If she doesn't make it and gets a 2:1, will she be looked down on by those who got firsts at low tariff universities, and if she is, is that a fair reflection of either her or their ability? I don't know.
Really, one would hope that once they are out in the real world, the precise classification of someone else's degree would in day to day life be of very little interest to anyone. I certainly have no idea whether any of my former colleagues got a first or a pass degree, or, to be honest, a degree at all in some cases. Given the nature of our work, several had masters degree from the same institution (the one on Keppel Street, near Senate House

), but where from and what class of first degree was honestly never even a lukewarm, let alone a hot topic of conversation. Perhaps the public sector is just different...