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   From: tims_new_home@yahoo.com   
      
   "The Todal"  wrote in message   
   news:eerhukF7qk9U1@mid.individual.net...   
   > On 25/01/2017 11:34, tim... wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "The Todal"  wrote in message   
   >> news:eeq7n5Ft3l1U1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>> On 24/01/2017 21:50, kat wrote:   
   >>>> On 24/01/2017 12:33, tim... wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "The Todal"  wrote in message   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> To be fair, I think Theresa May relied on advice from her Attorney   
   >>>>>> General and from the team of government lawyers at the Treasury. I   
   >>>>>> don't suppose she knows any law at all. I'm not sure what her   
   >>>>>> specialist subject is - maybe the fauna and flora of the Swiss Alps.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> a 2 something (presumably 2 otherwise it would have said 2-1) in   
   >>>>> Geography   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Oxford had 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th degrees ( which later became 1st,   
   >>>> 2-1,   
   >>>> 2-2, and 3rd) until sometime in the 70s, I believe, possibly later than   
   >>>> when she graduated. So maybe that 2 is just that.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> When Theresa and I were at Oxford, there were no such things as 2:1   
   >>> degrees. You got a 1st, 2nd or 3rd. A 2nd from Oxford is no mean feat.   
   >>   
   >> Oh I didn't say otherwise   
   >>   
   >> I have conceded in the past (elsewhere) that a certain other regular's   
   >> 3rd from Cambridge is worth more than my 2-1 from Mickey Mouse   
   >> University.   
   >>   
   >   
   > It shouldn't be worth more, and it wouldn't be worth more to any   
   > intelligent employer.   
      
   Really?   
      
   I did a contract gig a few year's ago and it just happens that they had a   
   permi vacancy for similar role (in a different team)   
      
   The advert was passed to me, and I passed it back to them with "I do not   
   meet the qualifying conditions for this"   
      
   OTOH Mr X' with his third did.   
      
   (The rest is an exercise for the reader)   
      
   I don't believe the condition that I couldn't meet to be at all uncommon in   
   (lazy) recruitment offices.   
      
   Don't get me wrong.   
      
   I am not resentful about this dumbing down of my qualification because of   
   the perceived status of institution that issued it.  (Though I do resent   
   companies using it as a measure for a 30 year old-timer.)   
      
   Whilst I didn't know it at the time, my time in industry as a principle   
   engineer working alongside the current crop of new graduates, suggest that   
   the level of knowledge that my course gave me was far inferior to that of   
   the more respected institutions.   
      
   If I were looking to recruit new/recent grads, I would do it   
      
   tim   
      
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