degrees in general are becoming less and less useful, especially in some fields.
take the games industry for example, the % of people who have degrees related to games that work in the actual games industry, is shockingly low. why? because the degrees are handed out by for-profit schools who need to show high pass rates to keep getting people to go to them. the problem there, is that in an industry like games, you have to be good at practical art, not coursework. there are very few universities that focus on practical art over coursework because (at least in england) you cannot have a "bachelor" attached to your degree if it contains fewer than x amount of words written. at a university i recently did a talk at, i was told by one of the lecturers "half these guys will never be good enough, but i can't fail them because i've been given a minimum pass rate". and that's fundamentally wrong. more and more people get degrees each year in many fields, but can't actually do what the degree is for. it's more like a certificate of attendance than a certificate of competence.
the entire education system is focused on making money instead of making good, skilled people.
