And a leaked e-mail showed university staff being urged to increase the number of top degree grades to keep pace with competing universities.
When only top-flight firms counted, a degree from a top college was vital.
"It's a possibility that some people might not want to go because Messi is not there but they have a degree of top class players, " added Smith.
Now government statisticians have cross referenced GCSE and AS-level results with degree results, looking specifically if top school exam results are accurate predictors of a degree at 2:1 or above.
In addition, a degree from a top-tier education brand still carries enormous weight, at least subconsciously.
They see a degree from a top-tier school as one of the few ways to give their kids a jump on the competition.
You could stack an investment line and later a government spending line on top of a consumption line and establish equilibrium spending and income by the intersection of the top line with the 45-degree line.
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But if it means he has more money to pay students to drop out of Stanford, it remains to be seen how well Stanford will like employing a teacher who siphons off its top students before they earn their degree.
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She graduated near the top of her class, with a degree in systems engineering.
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Once you know your critical positions and your top performers, you can assess the degree of overlap.
The result is that taxation on the lowest incomes is very low, and the overall system has a high degree of progressivity despite modest top rates.
To be clear, this is the projected difference between what a kid can earn over a lifetime with a college degree from one of the Top 25 football schools and what he would have earned had he chosen not to go to college.
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This may happen with some second-degree burns, which only injure the top layers of the skin.
The challenge for the Japanese is to open up to individualism and more top-down leadership while retaining collectivism to some degree.
Instead of graduating from one of the top business schools in Paris, Tricoire earned a degree in electronic engineering from a college in Angers.
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"Unfortunately they are piling on the work at the moment but I want to be a top athlete and I want to get a good degree, " she said.
It is also instructive to keep in mind that all the large companies headed up by non-degree holders also invest heavily in recruiting top college graduates to acquire the talent they need to drive the future success of their organizations.
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The Grand Havana Room, a cigar club that was once the Top of the Sixes restaurant, offered spectacular, 360-degree views of the midtown-Manhattan skyline.
In Confucian China and Japan, all parents will make these investments unstintingly, and to a degree that Westerners might find over-the-top, both in terms of financial sacrifice and in demands and pressure on the child.
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Matthew Hindman, a political scientist at Arizona State University, found that the top bloggers are more likely than top newspaper columnists to have gone to a top university, and far more likely to have an advanced degree, such as a doctorate.
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Smith, the NBA's top sixth man, played just hours after spiking a 102-degree fever that nearly kept him out.
According to these tables, the UK is the best country to take a degree in geography, with UK universities dominating the global top 10 for this subject.
The issue is the degree to which China has moved higher education to the top of its priorities, and the fact that 500, 000 new engineers a year will probably come up with more high-tech innovations than 150, 000 can.
On top of his day job, he's also studying for a masters degree, paid for by the company.
The app also includes 360-degree photographic panoramas of everything from Westminster Cathedral to views from the top of the Shard.
While Moody's hasn't said whether and to what degree it will cut various banks' ratings, officials at multiple top European banks said they expect their grades to be knocked down at least one notch.
When the bottom disk is rotated the material between its holes exerts a tiny gravitational tug on the material between the holes of the top disk, causing it to rotate, albeit only by billionths of a degree.
The Jim'll Fix It and Top Of The Pops presenter was buried in a gold coffin at a 45-degree angle at the cemetery, facing the sea, at his own request.
In England (which the OECD no longer ranks in the top ten), a third-class or even a pass bachelor's degree will suffice, along with the most basic qualifications in English and maths.
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