But others may decide that it is better to drop out of school as soon as possible.

ECONOMIST: Education

She says that when she took one 9-year-old with severe behavior problems off Risperdal because of weight gain, and switched the child to another antipsychotic drug, the child was soon kicked out of school.

FORBES: Health Care

Most of these money managers go to good colleges and get jobs running portfolios soon out of B-school without any proof that they are any good.

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However, you would be wrong, because a young academic sociologist at the London School of Economics will soon point out that the move would have a potentially devastating effect on the government's favourite poverty measure.

ECONOMIST: Letters

An increase in the number of MSc in Management programmes will have a knock-on effect for the MBA. If traditional MBA applicants, who tend to be in their mid-to late-twenties, are only a few years out of their MSc programme, it is questionable whether they will they have the will to return to business school so soon.

ECONOMIST: The Bologna Process

Soon enough, Branson persuaded his parents to pursue his startup full-time and dropped out of high school.

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