Sentence examples for gaining degrees from inspiring English sources

He then returned to the US, where he attended colleges in Colorado and San Diego, gaining degrees in education.

This means over half the people gaining degrees today will find themselves working in jobs that don't require one.

Governments have realised they could save money if their universities made students study a bit more briskly, gaining degrees and entering the workforce earlier.

Kinahan, originally from one of the poorest parts of southern Dublin, spent three prison terms gaining degrees in economics and environmental sciences, as well as mastering Spanish and Dutch.

Giap was born in the village of An Xa on 25 August 1911 and attended the University of Hanoi, gaining degrees in politics and law, before working as a journalist.

Worked as a medical assistant in a private care home at 16 after leaving school, continuing her studies in the evenings and gaining degrees in both economics and law.

And just over the horizon looms another threat within the latest higher education bill, the lowering of the barriers to new institutions opening and a fast-track to them gaining degree-awarding powers.

Friends from my peer group went on to gain degrees, and deep down, as I grew up, I rued the fact I hadn't taken that path.

"I worked really hard in my life to try to move myself up," said Lambert, who grew up in poverty but went on to gain degrees in political science and international relations.

Born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, and educated at Bury grammar school Lancashire, he gained degrees in natural sciences and veterinary medicine at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he met his wife, Janet.

Neither Philippa Fawcett, who in 1890 scored higher than any man in the mathematics tripos, nor Elsie Phare, who gained a starred first in English in the 1920s, gained degrees.