If you have a degree in, oh let's say history, something unrelated to the English language, you may as well not have one at all for all the use it provides to the teaching of English as a second language.

Thats interesting because I have a scouser mate with a good degree in history from Liverpool uni, who in addition to gaining his CELTA and DELTA, is now gainfully employed at the British Council in the Emirates. A lot of places don't give a fig what degree you have, as long it is from a UK uni. I have met many FT's in China namely from a certain country in Central America and others in West Africa, with completely fraudulent credentials. Therefore ANY degree from a UK uni is better than faked documents from some pretend sham of a university in some godforsaken banana republic, imho.