To the OP - if you provide answers to the questions raised by some above, they will be able to provide you with more useful answers.

Having a degree doesn't mean that you have had a decent education but for many jobs you need that degree, or a masters in which case you usually need a degree or equivalent to get a masters.

Many of the students I worked with in the UK could hardly spell and their use of grammar was dodgy. Their overall knowledge was lacking: history, geog, basic science, literature.Knowing something about these and other subjects would be what I would call a decent education,but it may not get you a job.

Try it Newfie, I'm a citizen don'tcha know.

Are British degrees even recognised in Canada? It's not really job-specific, BSocSci in Politics, but i'm hoping it puts me in with the rest of the useless grads at least?

Our concerns at the schooling in Calgary were as much about the culture of schooling as the standard of education, but that's a whole nother thread completely... (and with the benefit of 2.5 years hindsight now, couldn't be happier with the decision)

I would far rather see my children do an apprenticeship willingly than follow the sheep off to the local polyversity to do some mediocre degree and end up 30 grand in debt with no skills to show for it.

It'll put you in the same group of UK citizens living in Canada with British degrees. Meaning you'll struggle to compete in the employment market even with Canadians who have barely and in some case haven't finished their secondary schooling.

I disagree. Discarding the value of a degree in the employment market for one moment, I think the structure and culture of higher education creates a framework and provides context for learning that people may not find outside a formal educational institution. We truncated the learning opportunities of far too many intelligent people in the UK in the past.

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Agree on this.

Whilst having a degree, or advanced degree does not equate to actual working intelligence or competence, degrees from good institutions can provide a standard of education that is informative, develops the deductive, reasoning, research, presentation and application skills of students, exposes students to a wide array of thought/research etc.

What field of work are you in?

I read that you have 15 years of experience, understand that can supplement in many cases, and roles, but for most professions and grads, an undergraduate is a pre-requisite, at least for incoming job applications. Depends on industry, role, accreditations requirements of the role, the working knowledge you have accumulated, the competency of etc.

Anyway as Almost Canadian said the OP just needs to provide a bit more biography methinks

Seems like that would ready them to function at the enterprise level accommodating the needs of all concerned stakeholders.

Not much cop if you value concision though.

Without resorting to your low digs, what are you tring to say? That my points are invalid, the post is unintelligible? Or that putting people down gives your ego the boost it clearly needs?

I giggled at the conflict between the rambling nature of your prose and the virtues it extolled so I responded with some similarly flaccid writing cut from another window. That's all.

My ego is comfortably trampled, thank you for your concern.

OK it rambled. Thanks for pointing it out, but I would have preferred you to just say so directly.

Thanks,
floatsy

When we rationed HE, a major purpose of attending was the exclusivity and thus marketability a degree would bestow on the fortunate attendees. I think universities now, shouldn't give out certificates/degrees or proof of attendance. It would be liberating. You attend HE if you want that structure, stay as long as you want and feel is necessary but your attendance itself should not be able to be used in a competitive and advantageous way. Hopefully that would weed out the dross and uninterested.