Its an interesting article about the recruitment process, and its great to hear about someone trying something different in this regard and it working out well.

Its an interesting article about the recruitment process, and its great to hear about someone trying something different in this regard and it working out well. I'm not sure the HN title is entirely accurate. Its more an 'experience report' than a comparison. In order to draw a fully qualified conclusion from the article I'd say, 'A specially selected group of students, formally educated up to an A Level standard [0] were able to equal the job performance of general university educated students after being put through a University specializing in the work that we do.' I'm frankly surprised that the candidates who were put through this specialist university weren't able to massively outperform those from more general schools. Of course I don't really know how long Advent University lasts for, or the extent to which you teach specialist skills or transferable skills. It is a strange situation though - I've got a PhD and I know some friends who have mediocre undergraduate grades, say 2.2s or 3s. They'd make great hires and doing really well in their jobs. It would really be interesting to see if anyone particularly targets this group in their hiring. [0] UK qualification at pre Uni-age - I haven't enough idea how the education in different countries compares are this age really to compare US/UK systems.