Same crap as here. Talked to a student many years ago about what she was aiming for at university.

"Oh, I'm doing the programme to get a managerial position in the Social Services!" she chirped.

(me) "Don't you need to work for maybe ten years or so, doing field work first before becoming a manager?"

(her) "Oh no, you don't advance to manager that way, you have to gone through the programme to become manager!"

To this day, I'm head-desking at the thought of it and nowadays, virtually all managers in our civil services are like her: no real experience, only "theorists" as we call them here.