<story><title>U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers</title><url>https://www.kare11.com/article/news/politics/representative-angie-craig-drops-college-requirement-for-staffers/89-ec3eafe5-8714-4683-9c70-cbeb04fd88bb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>version_five</author><text>Sort of related, ontario is dropping university requirements for police: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nationalpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;canada&amp;#x2F;ontario-eliminating-education-requirement-to-become-police-officers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nationalpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;canada&amp;#x2F;ontario-eliminating-edu...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s coincidence or the start of a trend back to sanity about job qualifications. Ironically, by becoming almost ubiquitous, university education also becomes irrelevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ok123456</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s Goodhart&amp;#x27;s law in action.&lt;p&gt;If having a four year degree becomes just a checkbox, there will be easier and easier ways of getting that checkbox. There will be rent-seeking entities that will facilitate this like degree mills and dubious online programs. It no longer becomes a qualification that the person has gained any skills, but only that they were able to finance paying tens of thousands of dollars to participate in a few discussion threads.&lt;p&gt;It was only a matter of time for people to realise that requiring degrees for jobs that don&amp;#x27;t really need them is just cargo-culting.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers</title><url>https://www.kare11.com/article/news/politics/representative-angie-craig-drops-college-requirement-for-staffers/89-ec3eafe5-8714-4683-9c70-cbeb04fd88bb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>version_five</author><text>Sort of related, ontario is dropping university requirements for police: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nationalpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;canada&amp;#x2F;ontario-eliminating-education-requirement-to-become-police-officers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nationalpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;canada&amp;#x2F;ontario-eliminating-edu...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s coincidence or the start of a trend back to sanity about job qualifications. Ironically, by becoming almost ubiquitous, university education also becomes irrelevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d prefer police officers with EMT (and preferably paramedic) training to those with four-year sociology degrees.&lt;p&gt;Knowledge of DNA and computer forensic methods and necessities, though, would probably improve their chances of getting promoted, as would legal training.  However, those skills could easily be learned at two-year community college progams.&lt;p&gt;All in all, I think this kind of focus would lead to a more professional police force.</text></comment>