gordon wrote:Thanks for the second link (although it, like the earlier one, does not corroborate your earlier assertion on rising educational requirements in tier 1).
I agree with AG.
There doesn't seem to be much point in getting sensationalist about the whatifs and maybes that haven't been decided yet...and there is absolutely no point in making up information to fill in the unknowns.
The second link doesn't really say anything definitive and the earlier link only gets specific enough to say this:
"tier 1 - highly skilled, e.g. scientists or entrepreneurs;
tier 2 - skilled workers with a job offer, e.g. nurses, teachers, engineers;"
I don't think, given this reference, that it's true to say that tier 1 will require a master's degree. In fact, from the examples for tier 2 qualifiers, even tier 2 won't require a master's degree.
Further, the original reference in this thread showed that for tier 2, the points available for educational qualification ignore any value that might be added through a master's degree - the points for a bachelor degree and for a master degree were the same.