Academic qualifications - success in life? [ENDS 11/07/2010]

[Sameer!]

It builds you up for the future so you can get a good job.

[Meanies]

i don't think they necessarily give you success in life, obviously they'll be able to help towards monetary success but i think personal success and actually doing something you want to do is more important

[RedStratocas]

well i think in general, the more education you get, the more likely youll succeed in what you want to do in your life. i mean its not a coincidence you find more high school drop outs working at mcdonalds than college graduates.

but academic qualifications are mattering less and less nowadays. it used to be that a college degree guaranteed you at least modest comfort in life. but now people worry that college will do nothing but set them back 4 years in their career. it really depends on a lot of things. for example if you're looking to become a doctor good luck if youre not going to school for it. but if you want to be an inventor, an engineer, a business entrepreneur, you dont need anything other than a good idea.

[Lost_Addict]

Well i'm on work exp this week, and i;ve been discussing my choices to this buisness, and we were joking around. This is a very technical buisness with computers internet/intranet and so on and half of the people there didn't get GCSE grades so i'm guessing Grades only look good on your CV. But if your really good at a job you don't need grades to show that.

Also my dad who runs a diffrent company says they look for work expiriences rather than Uni Degrees and so on.

[Soy]

recently i just had an interview, it went awesome but my freind also had an interview, he said he didn't say anything + he has a stutter.

He has no qualifications and yet he still got the job, the only thing he had on me was a bit more experience.

[Obeying]

My father holds no GCSE's, or qualifications of that matter. He worked his way up the scale & now has a very respectable position in the Education side of the Public Sector. But i certainly wouldn't risk missing revision etc.. for one night of your social life. Because of the economical downturn, people need all the education they can get.

[Judas]

My father holds no GCSE's, or qualifications of that matter. He worked his way up the scale & now has a very respectable position in the Education side of the Public Sector. But i certainly wouldn't risk missing revision etc.. for one night of your social life. Because of the economical downturn, people need all the education they can get.

absolutely agree with you, and my dad is the same except he has a completely different job but hes now high up and earns a lot of money and is happy.

[ifuseekamy]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education...uate-jobs.html
lol.

[Swastika]

It depends, i agree that getting grades is socially good for you, and that people do tend to look down on if your perhaps a cleaner or binman.
Having saying this, these days with the way things are in the world, sometimes it matters WHO you know rather than WHAT you know to get a job.
They are very well paying jobs around, jobs in which you don't need qualifications, such as food factory working - i myself work in that for the time being and you do not need any qualifications whatsoever.
I also do joinery at college, yet again - i didn't need any qualifications at all to get onto that course, it all depends really - i think it matters more if your going for career choices like doctors, dentistry, vets etc and not for joinery, bricklaying, engineering.
The world is a weird place, it all depends on one certain thing to get a job sometimes, and most of the time - it isn't qualifications.

[Mr-Trainor]

I think that academic qualifications definately provide some kind of assistance to your future. Obviously, other factors like experience could play a part in sucess but that does not totaly rule out academic qualifications which I believe are still quite important! Obviously the importance will vary with the kind of job you are going for