All New Police in England and Wales Must Have Degrees

franksinatra said:
It sounds a good idea to me. For many professional jobs in business a degree acts as a gateway to employment, so the Police is falling in lone with industry practice. Also many skillsets, studied within a degree programme, such as critical thinking, IT skills, communicating with people, writing reports would be transferable to a role within the police.

Personally I would feel more confident knowing any potential recruit has undergone a degree programme than just being subject to a police recruitment process.
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It's far more important that they're streetwise than educated to degree level.

As such, I agree completely with what @Why Always Ste posted.
 
Gets a higher class of person is so they wont have any qualms beating down the poor when the riots start
 
jay_mcfc said:
And are they going to create a University course that will best prepare these futures coppers for life on the beat? As others have said being a copper requires different skills to being academically bright and having a degree in fashion isn't going to help you.
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Yeah but they'll look fabulous.
 
bluemoon risin' said:
A friend of a friend couldn't even make toast when at uni(no shit).

My mate was sharing a flat with this academic whizz kid and whizzer asked"How do you use the toaster?"

"Put the bread in the toaster, turn on. Wait till the toast pops up and butter it".

Young whizzer only went and smeared butter on the casing of the toaster the stupid ****.

And they want people with degrees jots, really?
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A fine example of student humour, clever boy
 
Classic example of people not reading beyond the headline.

It's made very clear in the article that there will be three entry options.

Two of them are policing degrees and one is a conversion course.

They aren't just sticking Tarquin with his fashion degree out on the beat.
 
Think i would prefer my coppers to have done a stint or two in Helmand compared to a term or six at shithole polytechnic
 
jay_mcfc said:
And are they going to create a University course that will best prepare these futures coppers for life on the beat? As others have said being a copper requires different skills to being academically bright and having a degree in fashion isn't going to help you.
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One of the options is a three year apprenticeship, where the trainee will do a police funded degree course, with 80% of the apprenticeship spent on the frontline.

It's a bit of a non-story really; people without degrees are not excluded from entry due to the above option, and as franksinatra says, a degree is a gateway to employment. Several employers look for graduates with no specific degree as it shows they are capable of applying themselves to study.
 
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