Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter

  the skills-based hiring movement may actually amount to little more than populist virtue signaling

Huh? I think the whole article represents establishment pushback to people not playing their game: university is becoming irrelevant because it's become universal and is more focused on administration than education. It's that "law" about metrics being perverted once you make them a metric. But the administrative class will fight tooth and nail to try and keep their power, so we get article like this.

I'd hire a skilled person without a degree over a degreed person without skill any day of the week, and I'd look down on anyone who did the reverse.

Ya, let's start pretending college degree matters.

I don't necessarily agree with the article, but I wonder why the comments here are so hostile. I do wish employers of high school graduates were willing and legally allowed to consider SAT/ACT and AP exam scores in addition to high school GPAs in hiring. It's my impression that very few do. Has anyone had a job where they not only confirmed that you graduated from high school but looked at your transcript?

Since the high school record, other than graduating or not (a low bar), is ignored, a college degree is still a way to signal general intelligence, which is largely why I am sending my child to a "fancy" college in a week.

Why even bother getting a degree in journalism if all you’re gonna do is churn out blog posts for a living? Why even call it journalism then? Legal protection or something?

Let’s Stop Pretending Journalism Degrees Matter - frankly if all you’re gonna do is sit in some nyc office and shit out the same platitudes, why should I pay for it when I can find the same fecal matter online for free?

Best to stick with the cooking/crossword section with the nytimes...

Ok, so we need to get laws passed making it illegal to discriminate against candidates on the basis of educational background.