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    It's important you get your children to university....

    Graduates now 'more likely to end up as cleaners', official figures show - Telegraph

    I need the carpets washed and the oven cleaned.

    HTH

    #2
    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    I need the carpets washed and the oven cleaned.
    What does your wife do?

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      #3
      The article has a bit of nonsense in it.

      Some of the "middle" skilled jobs i.e. nurse now require a degree which they didn't in 1993 so can't be classed as that any more.

      Also they didn't separate people by age. You are more likely to be in a "highly" skilled job if you are older.
      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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        #4
        Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
        Your children will probably end up in some ex-poly.
        Mine will end up in Oxbridge.
        Therein lies the difference in value of universities.
        Hard Brexit now!
        #prayfornodeal

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          #5
          Originally posted by AtW View Post
          What does your wife do?
          Whats that got to do with it?
          Bazza gets caught
          Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

          CUK University Challenge Champions 2010

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            #6
            Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
            The article has a bit of nonsense in it.

            Some of the "middle" skilled jobs i.e. nurse now require a degree which they didn't in 1993 so can't be classed as that any more.

            Also they didn't separate people by age. You are more likely to be in a "highly" skilled job if you are older.
            The problem is that labour loved inflation and they have successfully inflated jobs away to insisting on paper certification.

            Professions that used to accept 16 year olds and trained them up now expect them to arrive "trained" aged 24. Its the same for accountancy, solicitors and nursing. While you used to be able to start aged 16 and earn while you work you now need to have a piece of paper that costs you 5 years of your life before you start earning.

            The last example I say is an insistence that School Heads and Deputy heads should have Master degrees. Exactly what does that add apart from giving people more work to do.
            merely at clientco for the entertainment

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              #7
              Originally posted by sasguru View Post
              Your children will probably end up in some ex-poly.
              Mine will end up in Oxbridge.
              Therein lies the difference in value of universities.
              Yep, Anglia Ruskin or Brookes.

              And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                #8
                Originally posted by cailin maith View Post
                Whats that got to do with it?
                It's directly related.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by AtW View Post
                  It's directly related.
                  To what?
                  Bazza gets caught
                  Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

                  CUK University Challenge Champions 2010

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by cailin maith View Post
                    To what?
                    Put the kettle on dear and I'll explain it to you over nice cuppa.

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