Sentence examples for acquired degree from inspiring English sources

Suppose you have an expensively acquired degree, and the only jobs out there are part-time gigs at minimum wage.

Lasser had no prior editing experience and knew little about science fiction, but his recently acquired degree from MIT convinced Gernsback to hire him.

Still, he flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer and along the way acquired degrees in accounting and finance.

As they acquired degrees, they also became the favorites of members of the old guard like Mandela.

They can provide a genuine option for people of all ages to acquire degree level skills (and degrees) and an experience of higher education through work.

It is also creating more higher-value apprenticeships at levels 4 to 7 in a range of professions, from accountancy to people management and financial services, so that more young people can acquire degree, postgraduate level and professional qualifications while they are earning.

We want to acquire degrees, to improve our careers and job opportunities.

It is ­significant that the Guardian reports, on the very same day, that the UK's only chair in palaeography is being axed, there being no call for palaeographers at BP, M&S, Dell, etc. Gerry Abbott Manchester Simon Roodhouse argues that plans to involve business in higher education can save costs and allow people to acquire degrees based on the expertise they have gained at work.

Indeed, it can be argued that the most serious challenges to integrity are not due to individual failures but to structural factors, for example the squeeze on university funding, the priority many students put on acquiring degrees compared to learning, and the funding of research by groups with vested interests.

And while too few of their students acquire degrees, too many end up saddled with crippling debt".

Once the recession hit, many of us retreated to the fortress of academia and started acquiring degrees.