Credentialism

Credentialism is the practice of using a person's qualifications, such as degrees or certificates, as a way to solely assess their skills,

We finally consider the possible ways forward in appraising the goals of HE beyond credential inflation Keywords: credentialism; massification; marketization;

credentialise The article characterizes contemporary higher education as being trapped in a Procrustean dynamic: techno-utopianism with job displacement and expansionism with

credentialise Rather than functioning as direct signs of work skills and knowledge, signals of trainability or as instruments of social closure, the article