TBC

An MA and/or shoplifting will qualify you for community service / Macdonalds. Was yours based on attendance?

A recognised MBA (In my case, co run by LSE) is not easy to obtain or even get entry to.

Considering your proclivity to pontificate on subjects of which you have zero understanding, I am not surprised the engineers in your family treat you with disdain / ignore you.

Oh dear SM, you are scraping the barrel now.

What does this mean, "A recognised MBA"?

Recognised!

Recognised by whom?

And how do we know which MBAs are 'not recognised'?

Now this, "(In my case, co run by LSE)"

Frankly, anything coming from the LSE these days is worth about the same as a bit of Hardly Normal tat.

When you say 'co run', was that with a degree mill from the Cocos Islands?

The LSE these days is the engine room of backwoods capitalism, trading on its once honourable past.

For the record, my MA required 'research'.

You know, where something vaguely original has to be tackled, not just the purchase of an overpriced and oversubscribed commodity.

But let's neither of us get too carried away with the 'M' letter qualification.

It really isn't much more than a lengthy answer to a few basic questions, and is nothing more than an exercise in following academic rules correctly.

And you are aware of the 'debate' surrounding MBAs, of course.

A 'rubber stamp' for paying the exorbitant fees, is all.

TBC

So sad that you feel so inadequate.

"For the record, my MA required 'research'." Want fries with that?

LSE is still one of the top universities as far as ranking in the world, contrary to your sour grapes, and does not co run courses in the COCO islands.

By recognised, it means that with an MBA you are far more sought after, as businesses recognise that you have more depth than the original discipline. I have the finance and accounting to estimate and bring a project in under budget, the law and negotiating skills to put together local and international contracts, and the knowledge of organisational requirements to put together a staff to meet the requirements (all of which I have done)

The MBA is not a guarantee, but gives you the tools to perform tasks valuable to business (unlike an MA), and for which businesses typically pay substantially more. The "debate" about MBAs seems not to have reached the job market.

Which brings me to ask why you are so ashamed as not to be able to mention what you really do, or what your "degree" consisted of.

Dear SM

The more you try to convince our readers that your MBA is worth something, the shriller you sound.

"So sad that you feel so inadequate"... "LSE is still one of the top universities as far as ranking in the world" and then to top it off "contrary to your sour grapes, and does not co run courses in the COCO islands."

REALLY! I'm shocked.

Anyway, I had a gander at your 'top' uni'.

There's an auld saying SM, about those who like to set fires, "Woodsie Lore", that says, 'the bigger the fire, the bigger the fool'.

Now, far be it from me to point a finger at anyone, but let's just see what the league tables say shall we?

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/top-200.html

Surely, no one will contradict anything from the Murdoch stable?

Hmm, let me see, scroll down for LSE, and up again, and down again, hmm, SM said it was AT THE TOP of the league tables, now, just where is it, up again, down again, is it even there I wonder, no, perhaps it's not, HANG ON OLD FELLA, THERE IT IS! BINGO!

Oh YES, there it is, the "London School of Neo-Liberal Economics", Barter Card accepted if your MasterCard has failed.

Oh, it has done well hasn't it? Relatively speaking, that is.

(Leaving out USA 1-5, China, France, Switzerland,Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore... and so on).

University of Oxford - 6
University of Cambridge - 6
Imperial College London- 9
University College London- 22
University of Melbourne - 36
University of Edinburgh - 40
Australian National University - 43
University of Bristol - 68
University of Sydney - 71
University of Adelaide - 73
Kings College London - 77
University of Sussex - 79
University of Queensland - 81 with University of York (for God's sake! Have you ever been there?)
Durham University - 85
London School of Economics - 86 BINGO, SM is HERE!

Yers done it SM.

Shane Warne has a PhD from Southampton University, and that good place is ranked as 90 in the world.

Me?

Melbourne University isn't so bad, eh?

Shadow Minister,

You should remember the old adage "Never argue with an idiot, people watching may not be able to tell the difference".

If I had an MA, I would keep quiet about it, for fear that someone might find out. An arts degree at university these days requires only that you apply in the first place. Thats followed by 3 years of asking one another 'how did that make you feel', followed by regurgitation of extreme left wing dogma dressed up as original thought. At the end of the whole thing its a reasonable certainty that you will be able to weave baskets, and pontificate with extreme moral standing upon any issue, deriding all those who have the temerity to believe that people are better off today than in an time in our history. If you are lucky you might actually get a job which will allow you to assist in the enabling of drug users, alcoholics prostitutes and paedophiles, otherwise known as community work. If you are really lucky you will get to draw a taxpayer funded salary while you fritter away the money of hardworking people.

Sound advice PaulL.

No doubt something you discovered on your way to Damascus?

I'll remember not to argue with you.