Vocational madness

My editor and I just had a mutual whinge about the encroachment of the tertiary education sector into vocations that used to be informal apprenticeships.

In her case she says there are lots of kids with great qualifications but they can’t edit. In my case I see corporate types getting MBA’s with a major in ‘entrepreneurship’ that simply couldn’t and can’t.

For the unis it’s a case of convincing government to step up regulatory and licensing controls of the employment sector so they (the unis) can grow bigger and have more revenues. But whose role is it to push back on them if it doesn’t make sense?