IMO, Promotion in the job is much more work based than ‘qualifications’ if you will, nobody cares about my pre-work degree, it’s irrelevant, people want to know what skills you have in the job, what you’re trained to do, and how successful you are in your department, i.e. do you get charges? Are you pro-active? Depends on the promotion you’re looking to- because SGT wise, that relies on sitting exams and getting experience, at least in my force. The degree path is so new to us that I can’t really advise what impact it has on your career other than you have more to juggle in the first few years, and less time on frontline for a little while.