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Skills or Degree in a Dumbed Down World? Are Universities preparing students for work and life?

The One Percent Rule

The Financial Times reports on what I have been concerned with and writing about for some time, there is a decline in cognitive abilities across society. From attention, to reasoning and literacy plus other essential life ‘skills’, there is a general dumbing down of society.

The Financial Times reports on what I have been concerned with and writing about for some time, there is a decline in cognitive abilities across society. From attention, to reasoning and literacy plus other essential life ‘skills’, there is a general dumbing down of society.

Finally, I would advise young people to go long substance and short on status (a university degree as status is folly). By which I mean study those subjects that are substantive and valuable for the jobs you want, it is astonishing how many conversations I have had with first year students who have no idea what they want to do with their lives (the same applies to many students after 4/5 years of Masters studies).

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