• St Petersburg owes its popularity to its ice-free port, good rail links and well-educated workforce, as well as the can-do approach of the governor, Valentina Matviyenko, who has promised to turn the city into Russia's Detroit.

    ECONOMIST: Theme and variations

  • OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is more of an advantage than having well-educated parents in good jobs.

    ECONOMIST: Reading: Catching up | The

  • In the SNP MSP's column in the the Daily Record Ms McAlpine likened the Union with England to "the marriage of a talented, well-educated girl with good prospects and her own income, to a domineering man".

    BBC: Scottish Parliament

  • Many of these spots are in places like Columbia Heights (where Meridian Pint is located), the U Street Corridor, Logan Circle and the area around the convention centre, once ignored by highly-educated professionals who demand good food, nightlife, arts and all the other things that make city life worth living.

    BBC: Neighbourhood spots in the nation's capital

  • If you are a college-educated black woman with a good job and you wish to marry a black man who is your socioeconomic equal, the odds are not good.

    ECONOMIST: How the mass incarceration of black men hurts black women

  • Despite declining circulation, newspapers are still a good advertising buy because their demographics are strong, with well-educated, high-income readers, Moloney states.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Some are well-qualified and earning good salaries: professional couples look for educated nannies with qualifications in first aid and the like, and pay accordingly.

    ECONOMIST: Domestic labour

  • "There has been a realisation among college-educated Americans that marriage is actually a pretty good idea, even if they don't like to talk about it in public, " argues Bradford Wilcox.

    BBC: Why is the US marriage rate falling sharply?

  • Proof, if any were needed, that the Princeton-educated engineer still sees himself as a local boy made good internationally.

    CNN: HANGING ON AT HOPEWELL

  • The Good Schools Guide noted that 12 out of 41 British gold medal-winners educated in the UK attended private school. (A 42nd medal winner's educational background was unknown and a 43rd was schooled in Germany).

    BBC: Magazine

  • But many are well educated, with good language skills learned at religious schools and strong international support networks - many Christian churches are international.

    BBC: Syria war fuels Christian flight from Middle East

  • Many participants are middle-aged, highly-educated and employed, and a majority of them consider their current financial situation relatively good.

    CNN: How the indignados motivated Spain

  • Speaking of educated people, I personally know of many top-flight public schools that are as good as or better than the better private schools.

    FORBES: The State of the Union? Not So Great

  • Second (and I think this is particularly true of smart, well-educated people), we tend to think that understanding something is the same as, or as good as, doing it.

    FORBES: Think You Know Everything? It Won't Help and Here's Why

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