Let’s Stop Overstating the Value of a University Degree | PeopleSearch Blog - Leading Executive Search, Recruitment, Outplacement Firm

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National University of Singapore graduates at a commencement ceremony. (Photo: Channel NewsAsia.com, Lionel Lin)

While degrees are certainly not bereft of value when it comes to knowledge and skills acquisition, let’s also recognise that the skills of the future can be acquired through other equally, if not more credible means.

This means rewarding individuals for the value they bring to the job rather than the paper qualifications they walk in with, says PeopleSearch Singapore’s Jaime Lim in this op-ed for Channel NewsAsia.

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Let’s Stop Overstating the Value of a University Degree – Channel NewsAsia

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