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Dr_Bakes – Member
"What sort of bubble are London/uni people living in?"
If she was from Cambridge then why are you refering to 'London people'?
As for history degrees I couldn't agree more, load of old twaddle .
You were so hoping to get a rise out of me on this one right?!
I have a history degree. Actually, I have two of them. And now I churn out massed ranks of students with history degrees who leave Oxford year on year. To be honest, they seem to do OK out of it: a lot of them will take law conversion courses and end up at the bar or in a city law firm. The ones with a political conscience seem to end up in the civil service or a think tank. The ones with a social conscience go into teaching or NGOs. I don't know how far we can claim any credit for this, but they leave with the ability to think critically, analyze large amounts of material, work independently and in small groups and to develop independent and original arguments. The subject matter might be 'twaddle', but in terms of skills and employability I think we do pretty well.