A degree is a degree!

With Brexit, alot of employers have reduced their graduate intake and expanding european offices.

Good luck finding a job with a 2:2 (its doable but excludes you from like 80% of all jobs)

The thing is a degree shouldn't be "a degree", as you say.

Those grad jobs don't need a degree to be done - specifically they accept any degree subject and just put arbitrary requirements on the classification or awarding university due to demand. You could get a 6th form student who is bright but not necessarily academically minded, put them in an investment bank as a trainee (below the standard of grad analysts) and within two years they'd be easily able to do the role of a grad analyst. An analyst does not need or use advanced mathematics. A quant, sure, but most applying for those positions will have at least a masters if not a PhD, so..

What a degree should be is what it was originally intended for - an academic training programme for either a handful of professions which require specific academic knowledge to engage in (law, medicine, etc - also in modern day times, realistically engineering) or to continue in academia as a lecturer, scientist, researcher generally, etc, etc. Even some things, like a reasonable swathe of engineers, many solicitors (as opposed to barristers, and particularly in corporate law), architects, and so on, which would otherwise fall into the above, could well be trained (as they are, for the former two) in joint academic apprenticeship programmes - where the degree is incidental, more than anything.

Alas, (the necessary and good push for) access to university has been misinterpreted and misimplemented as meaning that everyone should go to university, rather than anyone should be able to go to university.

What utter nonsense that a 2:2 is below standard! What planet are you on?

What utter nonsense that a 2:2 is below standard! What planet are you on?

Sorry that I interrupt you, but I have no idea what "2:2" means? I can't say something to your statement without to know the details.

For clarification, a '2:2', is a grading of a degree. See it as a B (or C if you consider a First an A*).

The grading generally goes: Failed, Pass, Third [class], 2:2 (Lower 2nd class), 2:1 (Upper 2nd Class), and First [class].

2:2 is equivalent to about 50-60%

I see, it is quite below average. It is difficult accordingly to get a job with this degree. I am so confusing why degrees for students at school are rated in letters, while degrees for students at university are indicated with numbers in a relation to each other.

To add to the confusion, Master's courses (though this may not apply to every institution), go: Pass (Low, Med, High), Merit/Credit/Commendation (Low, Med, High) and Distinction (Low, Med, High). There is a grade above that, it's still considered a distinction but to a near-flawless level for the resource and level of academia. It generally represents 90% or above, and at that standard you're viable to be considered for publication.

I don't know what level of academia you're at right now, but if you're not quite to university yet, I would say to take the grading with a pinch of sugar. Whilst 70%+ being a 2:1/distinction may seem moderate in comparison to the 80s and 90s of GCSE and possibly A-level, I can assure you that the standard to reach 70 is proportionally higher than 80/90 in lower tiers of education.

Hopefully that's informative (:

I am not a university student, I am not a British who is living in UK, but abroad. Know the Education system in Britain a little bit, that is all. And it is higely unlikely I would ever be a student in the UK. As an outsider I just wonder why this module is so complicated.