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@Brommers
One of the problems IMV with the UK's employment system isn't so much the education system itself but the value put in degrees by employers. Many employers and professions treat a degree as an entry ticket to the Graduate Club, and you have to be a member before getting the job even if the degree has no relevance to the job you'll be expected to do which is only ever learned vocationally. To join my profession, one of the requirements is that you have to have a 2:2 or better degree. Doesn't matter what it's in, you just have to have a degree. If it isn't in law, you have to do a law conversion course, to teach yourself about the law, but you can't just do the conversion course, you have to do a degree first. Never worked out a convincing reason why, other than snobbery and an entrenched class system.