Project Management Education and Project Success

Let us start by defining my perspective of project management (PM) education: it involves the acquisition, dissemination, and use of knowledge leading to the attainment of a clearly defined qualification, certification, and training. If one of these components that define PM education is missing then the education is not comprehensive. So if we follow that definition how many providers of PM education really provide comprehensive education in project management? May be your next question would be to find out if PM education really makes any reasonable difference in the way project managers do their work. Would we get more success in projects because we have a team of PMPs, PRINCE2s, PMAJs or whatever your certification is called? I have read a few articles that actually say there is more non-certified project managers successfully implementing projects out there than the certified ones.If you are successful (by whatever definition of project success your organization uses) please say something! For example regardless of your certification status and your project success/failure profile would you hire a project manager who is not certified in your next project just because they have implemented a number of project successfully?