A survey by recruiters Milkround.com has found that 58% of graduates think employers should scrap their minimum 2:1 degree requirements.
Eva Malecki, Centrica's graduate recruitment manager, agrees with this, saying: "We do not have a 2:1 cut-off as we believe that accepting applications from graduates with a 2:2 or above will enable us to attract and assess a larger, more diverse graduate pool".
While this is no doubt true, won't this larger, sub 2:1 pool, include less able potential recruits? Rather than widening their graduates pools, employers are at risk of dumbing down their intake.
And why should employers be pandering to students' laziness? Surely there's something fundamentally wrong there.
