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CMV:All Professional qualifications should be able to test in. A degree should never be a hard pre-req

Title says most of it.  My reasoning is that a professional qualification should be a test of specialized knowledge and should be judgeable by testing of that knowledge and not have a dependency on the educational industrial complex.  

Yes, I know you can get shitty degrees in all kinds of places and ways and you don't have to pay $100k+ for years at a college.  But that's also my point.  A degree is of such varying value that it isn't meaningful to use as a pre-req.

I'm looking at you medical school.  The lawyers have got this one right.  College is designed to help you pass the bar,  but - as I understand it - it's not strictly necessary.

My apologies that this post is clearly ameri-centric.

EDIT: people seem to be reading my post as suggesting that I'm against training and schooling.  I'm not.  I'm against getting ENTRANCE to those things requiring unrelated schooling.

EDIT2: Maybe my title wasn't well written after all.  What I believe is that even qualifications that have a safety element (becoming a doctor) can have their schools (eg. medical school) have alternative qualification criteria to simply demanding a 4 year degree.  

And other (non-safety) quals should, where feasible have a test that demonstrate proficiency that precludes the need to go to classes.  This is already the case in most IT qualifications.
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Put yourself in the shoes of someone who confers degrees. Can you really make a single test that would demonstrate “yes this person should be licensed to be a medical doctor”? Why should anyone believe you about this test?

When you have coursework and grades and items to fall back on you begin to build your reputation and resume. And fair or not your professional degree has some representation on the organization that conferred it. Would you personally want to be operated on by a surgeon who had only ever passed a single test?