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Re: Liveloom - Savvi at Man Sands. Sunday 1st February 2009

san1t1 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:49:13 -0000

blah blah balh

Re: John Robb on Global Education Trends

san1t1 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:48:32 -0000

course, all that said, as a recruiter (rather than an employer) with '000s of CVs to go through, I still use the college/degree/rank as my first pass sift. Especially when the CEO of the company I'm recruiting for says "I only want folk who went to the same uni as me and my friends)

Re: John Robb on Global Education Trends

san1t1 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:41:52 -0000

As an employer I am generally more impressed with the 21 year old who has been working for 3 years, got some real world experience,and on the job vocational learning under his belt, than I am with the guy who went and pissed away the college fund his parents saved for years, barely scraped through university, only to walk out of it with massive debt and a 2:2 in some wishy washy liberal arts degree. Higer academic education should be reserved for academics - ie <%5 population. Everyone else. Get vocational training on the job and start on that career ladder early. A government policy like that in the UK where 50% of kids are supposed to get a degree is just daft.

Oh, unless the idea is really just that you want to be trapped in the debt cycle as early as possible. In which case, go study! Worry later!