Universities still control access to nearly all the major professions, from law, engineering and medicine to journalism, finance and teaching.
We teach the history of science but we don't teach laboratory science, in part because the economics are prohibitive and in part because our mission is to shape young people to go into certain institutions — law, media, journalism, finance, politics.
Thus reassured, Jones migrated from sociology to journalism to finance.
The first tests still read or sound like early prototypes, but they're already around in sports journalism, with finance or local news to come next.
He was the first person to run the company who had not gone to an Ivy League college and also the first chief executive who started his career in sales, not journalism or finance.
People who have had expensive educations dominate journalism, law, finance – and, of late, even the supposedly meritocratic powerhouse that is British pop music (witness Mumford and Sons, Florence Welch, Lily Allen, Laura Marling et al).
As a boss, the gimlet-eyed Miss Deane could be "formidable"; but she sent her devoted protégés out into top jobs in journalism and finance.After Marjorie retired from the paper, aged 75, she continued to work for GISE, a consultancy, reviving Fin Rep for a time under its auspices, and for the World Gold Council.
There is a shift in manner and matter from Une Vie (1883; A Woman's Life), with its echoes of Madame Bovary, through the detached but destructive portrait of the worlds of journalism and finance in Bel-Ami (1885; Eng. trans. Bel-Ami), to the powerful evocation of the crippling effects of jealousy in Pierre et Jean (1888; Pierre and Jean).
"The public relations industry has a long track record of attracting personnel from a variety of disciplines, such as journalism and finance," says Arthur Yann, vice president of public relations for the Public Relations Society of America in New York City.
Mr Miliband said allowing young people from poorer backgrounds to reach university was crucial to opening "closed circles" of Britain, "not just to the universities, but to journalism, law, finance - and politics too".
Florida says members of the creative class are highly educated, well compensated and talented in fields ranging from high tech to journalism to finance to the arts, and they believe creativity and individuality and a certain level of culture should be steeped within the towns in which they reside.
