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25 Jun 2024: to be civilised.’ I go with Tim Brighouse./p pstrongFollowing an Economics degree and three wonderful years at St John’s/strong, I trained to be an Economics teacher in London ... Initially, this was perhaps motivated by not being particularly drawn

7 Mar 2024: All of the Mathematical Science students received a mathematics lesson from St John’s Fellow Dr Matthias Doerrzapf, while the Biological Science students participated in a medicine lesson, followed by a

25 Jun 2024: Another good lesson!/p pFortunately the experience was highly marketable, so I then joined Mothercare to run their direct (as opposed to stores) division.

25 Jun 2024: I wanted a career in industry applying the lessons I’d learnt in my PhD, but 20 years ago few companies were interested.

25 Jun 2024: laptop-only"/divdiv style="height:50px" class="spacer -desktop-only"/div/div pstrongI went up to St John’s to read Economics in 1988./strong Like Captain Kirk with Starfleet, it

25 Jun 2024: Government policy aside, however, my personal opinion is that the big issues still holding us back are lack of political will, misaligned economic incentives and older vested interests.

25 Jun 2024: I am particularly impressed that the fund takes into account cost-of-living increases; the economic situation the country is facing will only make it more difficult for many students to

25 Jun 2024: I also had Indian classical singing lessons and was a member of the Manchester Boys’ Choir.

25 Jun 2024: I taught myself to play so that I could join them, but I never had any formal music lessons.

25 Jun 2024: sang in the Marple Congregational Church choir, and I was sent for (rather fruitless) piano lessons at an early age, my childhood was not filled with music.