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It's important you get your children to university....

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    #21
    Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post
    Jeez have they changed the name of that place again!

    When I was working in the canteen at Cambridge (University, the real one) we used to look down our noses at the plebs in "Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology" (CCAT) canteen.
    Then it became "Anglia Higher Education College Canteen" (AHEC).
    Then "Anglia Polytechnic Canteen"
    Then "University of East Anglia Canteen" (I think),
    and now "Anglia Ruskin University Canteen"
    and from next week it's called "Sodexho"
    .
    ftfy
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #22
      Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
      Accountancy seems to be one of the professions which is still telling people that they can get into it without having to go to uni.
      The comment from one person I spoke to was that it was easier to get into Oxbridge then it was to pass the criteria PWC are using.
      merely at clientco for the entertainment

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        #23
        Originally posted by eek View Post
        The comment from one person I spoke to was that it was easier to get into Oxbridge then it was to pass the criteria PWC are using.
        there is a lot more to accounting than PWC!
        Coffee's for closers

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          #24
          Originally posted by eek View Post
          The comment from one person I spoke to was that it was easier to get into Oxbridge then it was to pass the criteria PWC are using.
          Evidently.

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            #25
            Originally posted by eek View Post
            The comment from one person I spoke to was that it was easier to get into Oxbridge then it was to pass the criteria PWC are using.
            I know a couple of guys who worked for PWC and they hated it.
            And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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              #26
              Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
              ftfy
              Well OK yes I was on pot-wash 3 days a week. <rumbled>
              But I made £3.20/hour and got to bow for the master and fellows at high table during Michaelmas and Lent terms 1989/90..

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                #27
                Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                I know a couple of guys who worked for PWC and they hated it.
                I use to know lots of people who worked for PWC....they all left apart from one... However that's nothing to do with the price of fish as they also do other functions.

                There are lots of small accountancy firms who will employ a 16-18 year old and allow them to do their training whilst working. Some of them will also sponsor the trainee.

                Though having worked with kids aged 16-18 and been served by them it seems that only a few are employable straight from school and it seems to be getting worse every year.

                The larger firms who have apprenticeships are overrun with applicants.
                "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                  #28
                  Kids just need to focus more on vocational degrees such as:

                  Cleaning
                  I'm alright Jack

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
                    Kids just need to focus more on vocational degrees such as:

                    Cleaning
                    Is that the course Kryten did?

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
                      Kids just need to focus more on vocational degrees such as:

                      Cleaning
                      A degree in watching telly;

                      Screen Studies MA - The University of Northampton
                      And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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