Credentialism

The expansion of access to higher education and the proliferation of formal degree requirements for entry to employment have been enduring trends over the

In a short but powerful talk, Malcolm Gladwell outlines the facts keeping education from doing its

credentialise “Credentialism”, a concept coined by social scientists in the 1970s, is the reduction of qualifications to status conferring pieces of paper

credentialise Often derogatory a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences,