It seems thta the responces are devided into two camps. A group who
feel there should be a correlation between formal education and
those who don't. In defence of there not being a good correlationship
let me point out the large number of people who get a degree in A and
then find their life's work as a B. Now this is not the case in some
countries (like china) where which school and how sell you did will
pretty much determine your carreer options.

(please excuse errors while I was typing messages overwrote the screen)