Expertise is the Credential
Not the other way round
It’s difficult to live in a world where credentials are prioritized.
Basically, our world.
A colleague told me he had completed a graduate course in occupational health but could barely compete with applicants who got their training from European universities.
Somehow, he got access to the curriculum and found that there was hardly anything different except the institution.
The credential was the signal. The misleading signal. Not the expertise.
By attaching a fee that most cannot afford, and granting a document that is a poor signal of expertise, the credential only serves the institution.
Not the employer. Not the skilled but poor. Not the autodidact.
Only the institution.
Who, then, do you trust?
Expertise is the credential. The credential is not the expertise.
This is the kind of world I would love to live in.