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too many young people have worthless degrees
I have been a manager with hiring responsibilities just once. I felt deeply underwhelmed as I shuffled through CVs recording pointless degree after pointless degree. By pointless I mean a 2.1 in sociology, or film studies, or management, or journalism, or business studies, or sports studies, or those puzzlingly silly pairings that have become voguish …
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‘I know that his life and indeed his death have touched many people’
THE Bailiff has added his own personal tribute to Islander Simon Boas, who died on Monday at the age of 47. Sir Timothy Le Cocq said Mr Boas – to whom he presented the Bailiff’s Silver Seal in May – displayed “a philosophy of courage and optimism which we may all admire”. He had become …