graduate profession

Why for example are we trying to turn nursing into a graduate profession?

It has taken a hundred and forty years to build a graduate profession.

Over subsequent decades, the role of environmental health practitioners changed and grew, with standards of qualification rising until, in the 1960s, it became a graduate profession.

The review also documented that serving as a Member of Parliament has become a graduate profession with nine out of 10 MPs having been to university.

Teaching in Scotland is an all graduate profession and the normal route for graduates wishing to teach is to complete a programme of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) at one of the seven Scottish Universities who offer these courses.

A very small minority of students remained for a fourth year and, having successfully negotiated a third year examination hurdle, were candidates for an unclassified B.Ed degree of the University of Birmingham, and carried with them our hopes for a future graduate profession.

Academic inflation occurs when university graduates take up work that was not formerly done by graduates of a certain level, and higher-degree holders continue to migrate to this particular occupation until it eventually becomes a field known as a "graduate profession" and the minimum job requirements have been inflated academically for low-level job tasks.