Higher earners ‘to retire at 70’

In message , snipped-for-privacy@white-eagle.invalid.uk writes

I think the figures have come down and now less than 50% of Durham graduates become accountants! Apart from the apathy society I'm sure it wasn't that boring up there.

In message , John Redman writes

But that is part of government thinking which goes thus: Everyone with a degree earns more than average. Therefore if we give everyone a piece of paper that says they have a degree everyone will earn more than average.

It will be the University of Peckham Infant School.

In message , Andy Pandy writes

They could need degrees in political studies, for when they want to try and baffle you and blame the leaking toilet on a rival plumber.

And everyone will have a PhD without being able to spell "PhD"!

They'd spell it Ph'D.

Rob Graham

I worked for the BBC 1969-72. In those days a young Graduate female with a proper arts/classics degree from a good University would be required to work 1 year in the photocopying* suite doing photocopies so she "picked up the ropes" before sthe could apply for a job in production as a PA (Production Assistant, timing shots with a stopwatch and making notes on a clipboard).

• In those days a photocopier was regarded as a figment of unimaginable complexity. A photocopier operator would be sent away to Rank-Xerox to do a 3-day course and came back with a "Rank-Xerox" Certificate, which got framed and hung in the office to impress visitors.

Those were the days !

DG

In message , Peter Saxton writes

Well there is a dark blue place that speels it DPhil. Which means that I know people who are MADPhil and I think the odd BADPhil as well.

" snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net" wrote

I believe that Cambridge has both PhD (generally 3-year) and DPhil (generally 2-year(?)).

" snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net" wrote

How about MAFIA ? ;-)

Funny... I also worked for the BBC a few times. One was just sitting in an office and, if anyone called the 'phone, ordering a taxi for them.

Another time was just being given a bottle of vodka and told to answer the 'phone and say nobody was there... since nobody actually was there.

Axel