TWO THOUSAND GRADUATES.
SEARCH FOR OCCUPATIONS. PROFESSIONS FORSAKEN. LONDON, June 14. The Church, learned professions, Army .and Civil Service, once the happy hunting ground of Oxford and Cambridge graduates, are fast being forsaken for more hurly-burly and profitable pursuits. Next week, at least 2000 graduates will leave their Alma Mater, and of those from Cambridge 70 per cent, arc taking up commerce and industryOne is learning hotel management, and others are becoming salesmen in big department stores, Cambridge officials declare that the average student is willing to accept any job requiring grit and determination, and many have taken unusually poorly-paid positions, as steppingstones to something better. Most ask for £2OO to £250 a year, not because they think they are worth it, but because that is the lowest fair living wage. The Cambridge Appointments Board placed 501 undergraduates in positions last year, and, of -these, 244 entered commerce and industry and 173 education.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20272, 25 June 1931, Page 9
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TWO THOUSAND GRADUATES.
Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20272, 25 June 1931, Page 9
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