Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk
[...] so would it be sensible for me to put on any job adverts i was to write "Applicants with degrees need not apply"?
If that's really how you feel, yes. You're the one who's hiring them and who'll have to work with them.
While I'm not sure that degrees say much positive besides the bare minimum, I suspect it covers a more varied crowd than those who've done MSCEs. If you think it's daft predicting negative things from MCSE, it seems even less reliable to do so from degrees...