On 27/04/2014 14:34, tim..... wrote:
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 07:25:37 +0100
Martin Edwards wrote:
On 26/04/2014 18:47, d wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 07:33:21 +0100
Martin Edwards wrote:
It is not widely known that, while the rest of the Civil Service is
headed by people from many universities, the Treasury is almost wholly
Oxbridge.
Doesn't surprise me. Most of the chinless wonders seem to float to
the top.
I wonder if any of them actually have economics or maths degrees or its
just a swathe of useless liberal arts degrees.
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Spud
Hey! My degree was in European Studies, then again it was from UEA.
I visited UEA once. Actually seemed like a nice place to me, don't
know why
people slag it off. European studies? Oh well, someone has to I suppose.
Wasn't it one of those places that got a bad rep for attracting "radicals"
tim
A bit, but Essex was the main one. Socially it was dominated by alumni
of the minor public schools.
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Myth, after all, is what we believe naturally. History is what we must
painfully learn and struggle to remember. -Albert Goldman