Age of degree/credits - Why?

A degree that you have earned doesn't really "count" toward another degree. A ten-year-old BA may or may not be accepted as qualification for entry into a graduate degree program; the graduate school will consider many factors.

As for whether a school will accept transfer credit, there are many factors to consider, and the age of the credits is just one. Yes, there is some, maybe a lot, of just plain old territorial bureaucratic snarkiness. But there are also valid reasons for not accepting credit.

 

I had to retake economics for my BSBM. My previous economics course was a couple decades previous to that. I was telling my middle son about this, and his reply was, "Well of course, Dad. Back then they used clams for money."

 

Well, the answer is simple!

Generally speaking, a bachelor's degree (at least in the UK) life span if 5-7 years depending ont he discipline, in tems of knowledge, skills, etc learned. After that, it's all useless other than as a statemen that a person had the motivation, determination, etc to get through the course and pass. I'd go along with that! My personal o9bservation is that this is true for virtually every subject/discipline although when I look back at some of the programmes I've taken I don't think things have moved on that much! Less so I guess in the science and technology fields.

One area I don't think has moved on is business management. Well, subject areas may change on an MBA curriculum but these programmes are still promulgating ideas and theories that have (by and large) never worked, and never will. Much of what is taught on MBA programmes should go under the heading of 'The History of Business Management Theory and Practice'. Now we see 'entrepreneurship', 'leadership', etc as the things that will 'light up the life of an organization'! 'Strategic management' is another 'white elephant'! Organizations manage and have a plan and the 'strategy' as to how they implement that plan is 'history' - I'm a Mintzberg fan!

So, I think 5 years is about right in terms of transfer of credit for prior learning. After that, the actual knowledge, information, data, etc is obsolete....however, what you actually learned, how you changed as a person (all the 'soft' things that are not assessed!) last a lifetime....but they wonlt get you credit transfer in this 'competence' assessment age!

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