As news breaks that Penguin Random House will no longer require college degrees of those it hires, we, as a nation, reflect on how there is a movement away from college requirements.
To mention just a few companies that also have shifted standards on education, Deloitte's recruiters no longer learn where candidates went to college, and Ernst and Young no longer requires B grades or graduates to have upper second class degrees, and PricewaterhouseCoopers no longer requires A's of its applicants.
I think the move away from standards on college is wise. For one thing, if the standards are not giving you better candidates, of course they should be scrapped. And, for another, I consider on how much college costs these days, and how youth in our society must pass through a rite of passage requiring them to be saddled with debts that take many years to pay off. I don't think that wise.
Perhaps the move away from college standards also reflects that our colleges are not working as well as we would like. People are getting degrees, but is that, too, just a rite of passage?
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