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Originally Posted by Hottentot
Which leads to us complaining that the universities take too many applicants in (even in history where the amount of passed qualification exams has in all my years been less than 10 % of the applicants), and since they will all become masters, the value of the degree suffers. A professor of pedagogy once called this on a lecture "schoolification" (closest translation I could come up with), and development towards a society where you need higher and higher degrees to get lower and lower ranked employment.
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We have exactly the same problem stateside. While not required by bacherlor's programs, the overall consensus is that a master's degree is required for basic employment is certain fields. As such, the degree value is lessened as it become more common, and forces people to pursue doctorates or equivalents to maintain a competative edge; akin to an academic arms race.